February 5, 2016
Delaware officials are still awaiting final numbers from the federal government, but say enrollment on Delaware’s health insurance exchange appears to be increasing. Sunday was the deadline to sign up for exchange coverage this year under the Affordable Care Act. …
January 15, 2016
Officials at Minnesota’s health insurance exchange, MNsure, vowed to beef up call center staff for the final weeks of open enrollment, hoping to reverse lengthy call delays in late December 2015 that hearken back to the exchange’s disastrous first year …
January 8, 2016
Hospitals and doctors told New York senators Wednesday they’ve got $200 million or more in unpaid bills because of last year’s financial failure of the insurance cooperative Health Republic, and they want the state to step in. Other insurers and …
December 15, 2015
The lone health insurance cooperative to make money last year on the Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges is now losing millions and suspending individual enrollment for 2016. Maine’s Community Health Options lost more than $17 million in the first …
December 7, 2015
Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that insurers will issue more than $2 million in rebates to 14,399 health insurance policyholders in Delaware as a result of the Affordable Care Act’s 80/20 medical loss ratio rule. The rule requires …
November 30, 2015
The sudden collapse of the largest nonprofit insurance cooperative created by President Barack Obama’s health care law is causing headaches in New York, especially for medical providers owed millions of dollars for treating the failed plan’s patients. More than 200,000 …
November 25, 2015
The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) has placed Consumers Mutual Insurance of Michigan (Consumers Mutual) in rehabilitation. Consumers Mutual has been offering health insurance through Michigan’s health insurance marketplace. The company and the DIFS jointly announced in …
November 20, 2015
MNsure has tapped its interim leader to run the health insurance exchange permanently even though she didn’t apply for the job. The health insurance exchange’s board selected Allison O’Toole to remain at the helm. She was chosen over health care …
November 13, 2015
U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson (R-N.Y., 19th district) formally requested New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli investigate the state Department of Financial Service’s oversight of the failed Health Republic insurance co-op. State and federal regulators decided to close Health Republic, …
November 11, 2015
New York state authorities say they are taking additional steps meant to protect people covered by Health Republic Insurance as it shuts down. The New York State Department of Financial Services and Department of Health say about 100,000 individual members …