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 …
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 …
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 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 …
November 2, 2015
New York State and federal authorities say the shutdown of Health Republic Insurance of New York should accelerate after they found it is in worse financial shape than they knew when it was ordered to stop writing new policies a …