All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 4 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr issued a cease and desist order against Tampa, Fla.-based Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings LLC, dba Health Insurance Innovations (HII), alleging the company is using fraudulent and...
Mar 30 2016 // Texas Insurance Commissioner David Mattax has appointed three members to serve on the board of directors of the Texas Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association. The board oversees the association, which helps to...
Mar 28 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has issued a cease and desist order against Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings LLC., dba Health Insurance Innovations (HII), a Tampa, Florida-based company, alleging the company has used...
Mar 25 2016 // U.S. taxpayers will fork over $660 billion this year to subsidize health insurance for people under 65, the vast majority of whom have coverage through their employers, the Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday.In...
Mar 24 2016 // Some health insurers are hoping to ease headaches that can flare when customers try to confirm whether a doctor is covered in a plan’s network of providers.The trade association America’s Health Insurance Plans...
Mar 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,...
Mar 15 2016 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance saved or recovered $29.8 million for North Carolinians in 2015, according to a statement from North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin. In 2015, the Department of...
Mar 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...
Mar 11 2016 // A new federal audit of the first six months of operations of Vermont Health Connect details how the system failed to meet several federal requirements designed to ensure that people who sought health insurance through the...
Mar 11 2016 // In early 2014, as his Oklahoma Air National Guard unit ramped up for a Middle East deployment, Senior Airman Jesse Daniels noticed he wasn’t feeling well.He got tired after just a few minutes on his feet. He...
Mar 7 2016 // Louisville, Ky.-based Humana has been approved for takeover by Aetna by Kentucky regulators, according to a statement from the Kentucky Department of Insurance Commissioner Brian Maynard.The order approving the request...
Mar 2 2016 // The rate of people in Minnesota without health insurance has fallen to a record low, state health officials announced.As of 2015, only about 4.3 percent of people in Minnesota lacked health insurance, a nearly 4 percentage...
Mar 2 2016 // U.S. hospitals are stepping up their bid to stop Anthem Inc.’s takeover of rival health insurer Cigna Corp., saying the deal will increase the dominance of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and potentially raise premiums...
Mar 1 2016 // The Delaware Department of Insurance said the department last year recovered more than $1.9 million for policyholders, and helped business owners save nearly $9.3 million in workers’ compensation insurance costs.The...
Feb 24 2016 // Oscar Health Insurance Corp. CEO Mario Schlosser has found the strategy he says will build his startup into a million-customer player in the health insurance industry: use tight, exclusive networks with hospitals to sell...
Feb 18 2016 // Louisville, Ky.-based Humana has been approved for takeover by Aetna by Kentucky regulators, according to a statement from the Kentucky Department of Insurance Commissioner Brian Maynard.The order approving the request...
Feb 9 2016 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced it helped to obtain millions of dollars for citizens and schools in 2015 through regulatory intervention and penalties against insurance companies.The department also worked...
Feb 5 2016 // About 12.7 million Americans signed up for 2016 health insurance coverage through the government insurance exchanges, surpassing its expectations, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said on...
Feb 1 2016 // Insurance providers have asked Kansas lawmakers to approve a measure that would allow them to offer health plans requiring customers to only use the insurers’ network.The plans are called Exclusive Provider...
Jan 26 2016 // Munich Re will acquire an additional 23.27 percent of shares of Apollo Munich Health Insurance Co. Ltd., from its joint venture partner, the Apollo Hospitals Group, India, increasing its shareholding from 25.5 percent to...