All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 18 2024 // A Dallas pharmacy owner who routinely billed insurance companies for headache sprays, pain creams, and scar creams never dispersed to patients was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the...
Oct 31 2024 // A Dallas pharmacy owner who routinely billed insurance companies for headache sprays, pain creams, and scar creams never dispersed to patients was sentenced last week to 10 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney...
Aug 21 2024 // Litigation that seeks to win Medicare reimbursements from insurance companies has become a huge business over the last decade, making one Miami lawyer a billionaire and causing expensive, ongoing legal headaches for...
Aug 20 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Trucordia.For seniors, Medicare provides vital health coverage but also introduces its own set of challenges. In particular, the multifaceted realm of Medicare prescription drug...
Aug 6 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Trucordia.When it comes to Medicare, the federal health insurance program for people aged 65 or older, as well as for certain younger individuals with specific health concerns,...
Jul 23 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Trucordia.The demand for experienced Medicare guidance is soaring as more individuals become eligible for Medicare coverage each day. This creates a golden opportunity for skilled...
May 28 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.In 2024, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced changes to the rules it sets for Medicare Supplement, Medicare Advantage, and Part D insurance...
May 6 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Illinois-based broker, announced the acquisition of Melbourne, Victoria-based Health Insurance Consultants Australia (HICA).Terms of the transaction were not disclosed....
Feb 16 2024 // South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that he planned to sign into law a National Health Insurance (NHI) bill that aims to provide universal health coverage to South Africans, although he did not...
Dec 28 2023 // The Colombian government will pay private health insurers 820 billion pesos ($215 million) of funds owed since last year for high-cost treatments and medicines, according to a letter by the health ministry.In the letter to...
Dec 21 2023 // INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – An Indianapolis-based health network has agreed to pay the government $345 million to resolve charges it defrauded Medicare by overpaying doctors who referred patients to its facilities, prosecutors...
Oct 10 2023 // The Philippines’ state health insurer didn’t have cyber protection software when hackers attacked its computers, giving criminals access to the data of millions of its citizens and triggering calls for an...
Oct 2 2023 // Health insurer Cigna Group says it has reached a settlement with the United States over claims it overcharged the government’s Medicare Advantage program by making it appear patients were more ill than they actually...
Aug 10 2023 // Allianz SE, the German owner of bond giant Pacific Investment Management Co., said its second-quarter profit jumped from a year earlier as stronger earnings from its insurance business offset weaknesses in its asset...
Aug 1 2023 // The Florida lawyer and entrepreneur who reportedly made millions by disrupting the auto insurance industry’s Medicare set-aside practices is under federal investigation and may be in financial trouble, according to...
May 24 2023 // Point32Health, the parent company of Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, is still dealing with a ransomware attack it first reported on April 17. The company has now disclosed that patient information has...
Feb 24 2023 // A law firm that has made a multibillion-dollar business out of suing auto and liability insurers for Medicare reimbursement payments may have met its match in Florida’s notice-of-intent-to-sue requirements.A panel of...
Feb 22 2023 // A gay couple won a lawsuit in South Korea granting them spousal coverage from the national health insurance program, an apparent first in the country that only legally recognizes marriage as between heterosexual couples.In...
Jan 25 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Health insurance (officially called “accident or health and sickness”) is one of the major, or general, lines of authority (LOAs) defined by the National...
Dec 19 2022 // The question of whether a state guaranty fund, which assumed outstanding claims for insolvent insurers, is considered a primary payer and owes money to Medicare, will have to wait for another day to be answered – for a...