Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Arkansas Admits New Life, Accident, Health Insurance Provider
Apr 25 2016 // Atlantic Coast Life Insurance Company (ACL) has been approved to do business in Arkansas, the state insurance department announced. ACL, a South Carolina domestic insurer since 1925, currently offers a variety of life,...
UnitedHealth to Drop Individual Obamacare Plans in Multiple States
Apr 20 2016 // UnitedHealth Group Inc. will drop out of government-organized health insurance markets in at least 16 states as the U.S. industry leader tries to stem losses from participating in Obamacare, the healthcare overhaul that...
New York AG Sues Health Insurer Over Hepatitis C Treatment
Apr 19 2016 // New York’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against an Albany-area health insurer that he says broke the law by denying coverage for expensive hepatitis C treatments until patients showed advanced symptoms of the...
Why Employers Are Sending Retirees to Exchanges for Health Insurance
Apr 18 2016 // Planning for retirement is tough enough – and it gets even tougher when retirement benefits you expect to receive from an employer are changed on short notice. But a growing number of U.S. employers are capping their...
N.Y. Extends Health Insurance Enrollment Period for Domestic Violence Victims
Apr 13 2016 // New York is requiring health insurers providing individual coverage through the state health exchange to allow victims of domestic violence or abandonment to enroll at any time. The Department of Financial Services says...
Arkansas Orders Florida Health Plan to Stop Selling in State
Apr 4 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr issued a cease and desist order against Tampa, Fla.-based Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings LLC, dba Health Insurance Innovations (HII), alleging the company is using fraudulent and...
Three Appointed to Texas Life/Health Insurance Guaranty Association Board
Mar 30 2016 // Texas Insurance Commissioner David Mattax has appointed three members to serve on the board of directors of the Texas Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association. The board oversees the association, which helps to...
Arkansas Orders Florida Health Plan to Stop Selling in State
Mar 28 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has issued a cease and desist order against Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings LLC., dba Health Insurance Innovations (HII), a Tampa, Florida-based company, alleging the company has used...
How Much Do U.S. Health Insurance Tax Breaks and Subsidies Cost?
Mar 25 2016 // U.S. taxpayers will fork over $660 billion this year to subsidize health insurance for people under 65, the vast majority of whom have coverage through their employers, the Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday. In...
Health Insurers Working to Improve Provider Network Directories
Mar 24 2016 // Some health insurers are hoping to ease headaches that can flare when customers try to confirm whether a doctor is covered in a plan’s network of providers. The trade association America’s Health Insurance...
New Hampshire, Maine Monitoring Struggling Health Insurance Co-Op
Mar 22 2016 // New Hampshire insurance regulators are working with their counterparts in Maine to monitor a financially struggling health insurance cooperative that serves both states. Community Health Options, based in Lewiston, Maine,...
North Carolina Insurance Dept. Reports $29.8M in Savings, Recoveries in 2015
Mar 15 2016 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance saved or recovered $29.8 million for North Carolinians in 2015, according to a statement from North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin. In 2015, the Department of...
Maine’s Nonprofit Health Insurer Sets Aside $43M to Cover Potential Losses
Mar 14 2016 // The lone health insurance cooperative to make money in 2014 on the Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges saw big losses in 2015 and is now setting aside $43 million to cover possible big losses this...
Federal Audit Finds More Vermont Health Connect Startup Woes
Mar 11 2016 // A new federal audit of the first six months of operations of Vermont Health Connect details how the system failed to meet several federal requirements designed to ensure that people who sought health insurance through the...
Oklahoma National Guard Airman with Cancer Expects to Lose Insurance
Mar 11 2016 // In early 2014, as his Oklahoma Air National Guard unit ramped up for a Middle East deployment, Senior Airman Jesse Daniels noticed he wasn’t feeling well. He got tired after just a few minutes on his feet. He...
Aetna Acquisition of Louisville-Based Humana Gets OK from Kentucky, Florida Regulators
Mar 7 2016 // Louisville, Ky.-based Humana has been approved for takeover by Aetna by Kentucky regulators, according to a statement from the Kentucky Department of Insurance Commissioner Brian Maynard. The order approving the request...
Minnesota Reports Rate of Uninsured Drops to Record Low
Mar 2 2016 // The rate of people in Minnesota without health insurance has fallen to a record low, state health officials announced. As of 2015, only about 4.3 percent of people in Minnesota lacked health insurance, a nearly 4...
Hospitals Say Anthem-Cigna Merger Will Empower Blue Cross, Hurt Consumers
Mar 2 2016 // U.S. hospitals are stepping up their bid to stop Anthem Inc.’s takeover of rival health insurer Cigna Corp., saying the deal will increase the dominance of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and potentially raise premiums...
Delaware Regulators Recovered $1.9M for Policyholders in 2015
Mar 1 2016 // The Delaware Department of Insurance said the department last year recovered more than $1.9 million for policyholders, and helped business owners save nearly $9.3 million in workers’ compensation insurance costs. The...
Health Insurance Startup Oscar Narrows Hospital Networks to Compete
Feb 24 2016 // Oscar Health Insurance Corp. CEO Mario Schlosser has found the strategy he says will build his startup into a million-customer player in the health insurance industry: use tight, exclusive networks with hospitals to sell...
