All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 12 2016 // New York’s insurance regulator has conditionally approved Aetna Inc.’s $37 billion takeover of Humana Inc., one of the last state sign-offs needed for the deal, people familiar with the matter said.The...
Jul 11 2016 // Connecticut’s insurance commissioner announced Tuesday that nonprofit health insurer HealthyCT must be placed under state supervision to protect the company’s 40,000 policyholders.Commissioner Katharine Wade...
Jul 11 2016 // Healthcare organizations contain a wealth of personal information, making them them the number one target for cyber breaches, according to a Houston-based attorney who specializes in healthcare privacy.Lynn Sessions, a...
Jul 8 2016 // The state of Illinois has tried an unusual maneuver to save a health insurer with 49,000 Illinois policyholders from possible financial failure by blocking it from paying a $31.8 million bill to the federal...
Jul 8 2016 // The U.S. Department of Justice has significant concerns about Aetna Inc’s proposed acquisition of health insurer Humana Inc., a source familiar with the situation said on Thursday, sending shares of Humana down as...
Jul 5 2016 // DataPath, a payment processor and provider, has launched RelianceCard, a card-based payment option for workers’ compensation Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) arrangements. The customizable card provides MSA recipients access...
Jul 5 2016 // A breakup of Anthem Inc.’s $48 billion bid for Cigna Corp., under scrutiny by U.S. antitrust regulators, could spark new deals for smaller health plans in a continued wave of industry consolidation.Smaller insurers...
Jun 23 2016 // Seven Democratic senators urged the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday to block two mergers of major health insurance companies, saying that the proposed deals would mean higher premiums and lower-quality healthcare for...
Jun 20 2016 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department issued a consumer alert on June 6 concerning health insurance denials and mammograms.The department said that since Jan. 1, it has heard from 67 New Hampshire women who received...
Jun 17 2016 // California’s insurance commissioner wants the U.S. Department of Justice to block health insurer Anthem Inc.’s acquisition of Cigna Corp, saying he is concerned it will raise premiums in the state.California...
Jun 10 2016 // Wisconsin insurance industry leaders are worried a potential state move toward self-insurance is already on its way to a done deal.At a Wisconsin Health News panel, panelists and audience members critiqued the possible...
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...