All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 8 2016 // Connecticut’s Department of Insurance is reviewing rate increase requests filed by 14 health insurance companies that range on average from 2.1 percent to 32 percent.The private plans, offered on and off the...
Jun 6 2016 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department has issued a consumer alert Monday on health insurance denials and mammograms.The department said that since Jan. 1, it has heard from 67 New Hampshire women who received notice from...
Jun 6 2016 // Arkansas officials say they want the state to take responsibility for its health insurance exchange for individuals but continue enrolling them in coverage through the federal system’s mechanisms.Gov. Asa...
Jun 2 2016 // The Kansas Insurance Department is reviewing requested rate filings for individual and small group health plans in Kansas for 2017.The range of requested average rate revisions by insurance companies is from 3.3 percent to...
Jun 1 2016 // A former official at the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission (GIC) has been indicted in connection with allegedly stealing more than $122,000 from the state agency.Ennio Manto, 52, of Braintree, Massachusetts, was...
May 31 2016 // Pennsylvania’s insurance regulators are starting a review of health plans for coverage next year through the federal marketplaces, including several that seek premium increases in excess of 40 percent.The...
May 30 2016 // The state’s insurance department is taking over a company that provides health insurance to nearly 22,000 residents, mainly in central Ohio.The move affects those holding InHealth Mutual policies from Coordinated...
May 30 2016 // Health insurance companies would no longer be able to raise rates for Affordable Care Act consumers in Missouri without review by a state agency under a measure awaiting the governor’s signature.Advocates say the...
May 25 2016 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr says he expects to deny several recent requests by insurers to raise rates on individual on-exchange health insurance policies by more than 10 percent for 2017.Under the...
May 24 2016 // It’s an unusual problem: The more people in rural areas Mark Romaninsky and his team help sign up for health insurance, the more difficult it becomes to find people who still need to enroll.“It gets harder and...
May 20 2016 // New York health insurers have proposed premium increases averaging 17.3 percent for next year in the market for individuals and 12 percent for small groups.The New York State Department of Financial Services often reduces...
May 13 2016 // The District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) said it has received 170 proposed health insurance plan rates for review from four major insurers in advance of the fourth year of open...
May 5 2016 // Bill Baer was the ultimate Washington antitrust insider when he came to the Justice Department in 2013: At law firm Arnold & Porter LLP, he’d counseled the biggest U.S. companies, including deal machine General...
May 3 2016 // According to a study released by Centers for Disease Control (CDC), consumer out-of-pocket spending on opioids has declined, with insurers picking up more of the tab.The study found that consumer out-of-pocket spending on...
Apr 29 2016 // New York state will soon require health insurers to cover depression screening for pregnant women and new mothers.The move follows a recommendation from a federal panel that insurers cover maternal depression screening...
Apr 25 2016 // Atlantic Coast Life Insurance Company (ACL) has been approved to do business in Arkansas, the state insurance department announced. ACL, a South Carolina domestic insurer since 1925, currently offers a variety of life,...
Apr 20 2016 // UnitedHealth Group Inc. will drop out of government-organized health insurance markets in at least 16 states as the U.S. industry leader tries to stem losses from participating in Obamacare, the healthcare overhaul that...
Apr 19 2016 // New York’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against an Albany-area health insurer that he says broke the law by denying coverage for expensive hepatitis C treatments until patients showed advanced symptoms of the...
Apr 18 2016 // Planning for retirement is tough enough – and it gets even tougher when retirement benefits you expect to receive from an employer are changed on short notice. But a growing number of U.S. employers are capping their...
Apr 13 2016 // New York is requiring health insurers providing individual coverage through the state health exchange to allow victims of domestic violence or abandonment to enroll at any time.The Department of Financial Services says...