Employees’ Share of Health Insurance Costs Rising September 22, 2015 By Zachary Tracer Health insurance costs have been rising at historically low rates over the last several years. Yet it may not feel...
Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Enroll 9.9 Million September 9, 2015 By Zachary Tracer About 9.9 million people got health insurance coverage through the marketplaces set up by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care...
Payroll Firm ADP to Compete with Brokers in Offering Health Exchange August 6, 2015 By Zachary Tracer Automatic Data Processing Inc., the payroll- processing giant, will offer companies a new way for their employees to select health...
Anthem Reported Close to $48B Deal for Cigna July 23, 2015 By Ed Hammond, Jeffrey McCracken and Zachary Tracer Anthem Inc. is near an agreement to buy rival Cigna Corp. for about $48 billion, two people with knowledge of...
Some Insurers Seeking 10-20% Rate Hikes on Obamacare Businesss June 3, 2015 By Zachary Tracer U.S. health insurers are submitting their 2016 rate requests for Affordable Care Act policies, with some asking for big increases...
Employers’ Shift to Private Health Exchanges May Cost Employees More April 7, 2015 By Zachary Tracer To limit the rising cost of health care, U.S. companies are increasingly turning to private insurance exchanges that let employees...
Premera Blue Cross in Washington Says Data on 11M Exposed by Hackers March 18, 2015 By Zachary Tracer Mountlake Terrace, Wash.-based Premera Blue Cross, which sells health insurance in the northwestern U.S., said information on 11 million people...
High Stakes in Today’s Supreme Court Case on Obamacare Subsidies March 4, 2015 By Zachary Tracer U.S. hospital companies and health insurers face the highest corporate stakes when the Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday to decide...
ING Plans $2 Billion Sale of Voya Stock to End Investment in U.S. Insurer March 4, 2015 By Doni Bloomfield and Zachary Tracer ING Groep NV, the biggest Dutch bank, said it will sell its remaining 19 percent stake in Voya Financial Inc.,...
Paying Tribute to AIG, MetLife Chief Benmosche March 1, 2015 By Zachary Tracer Steve Miller called him tenacious. Steve Kandarian remembered his fighting spirit. As Maurice “Hank” Greenberg put it, Robert Benmosche, who...