April 3, 2016
Kansas came close last month to hitting its target for tax collections, and the shortfall of less than $2 million reported represented relatively good news after a winter of gloomy budget developments. Sales tax collections — disappointing for months — …
March 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 fraudulent and dishonest practices in attempting to sell short-term …
March 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, was the only cooperative in the country to make money …
March 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 year. Officials with the …
March 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 system were qualified to …
March 11, 2016
Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart is advising consumers to beware of unscrupulous tax preparers this tax-filing season. Stewart said Thursday that the Department of Insurance has received reports of tax preparers who are wrongly informing Delawareans without health insurance …
March 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 couldn’t walk …
February 25, 2016
The New York Health Exchange says more than 2.8 million people have signed up for Medicaid and low-cost insurance through its 2016 open enrollment that ended Jan. 31. According to state health officials, federal data show the number of uninsured …
February 22, 2016
Vermont Lt. Gov. Phil Scott and the state’s legislative Republican leaders are calling for an independent assessment of the Vermont Health Connect state insurance exchange, with an eye toward possibly closing it and shifting to the federal exchange or some …
February 12, 2016
George Banyas is self-employed, having run a successful optometry business in Richland, Pennsylvania, for the past 15 years. He and his wife have two children, both in their early 20s and attending college. While his business has afforded his family …