All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 12 2016 // About 15 state attorneys general have joined the Justice Department’s probe of two big insurance mergers, according to people familiar with the matter, increasing the scrutiny on proposed deals that would reduce the...
Jan 7 2016 // Massachusetts consumers and businesses are expected to pay more for health insurance in 2016.Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state’s biggest commercial insurer, is raising premiums an average of 5...
Jan 7 2016 // The House voted Wednesday to repeal most of Obamacare, sending legislation to President Barack Obama for the first time that would dismantle his biggest domestic policy achievement.The 240-181 House vote, following Senate...
Jan 6 2016 // Health insurers in Massachusetts are pitching in to help the Gloucester Police Department with their well-known program to get heroin addicts into treatment. Under a pilot program launched Monday, members of the...
Jan 4 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently signed legislation to expand health insurance access to pregnant New Yorkers.The measure, signed by Cuomo on Dec. 22, would permit pregnant women to enroll in the state health insurance...
Dec 21 2015 // Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that gives the Legislature’s budget committee oversight of any contract moving Wisconsin public workers into a self-insurance system.The governor signed the bill privately on Dec....
Dec 16 2015 // Ohioans will be able to get more information about healthcare provider networks from health insurance companies beginning in 2016.The rule taking effect in January will require insurance companies to update their...
Dec 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...
Dec 8 2015 // Two health-care startups will work with the White House to boost the number of Americans who obtain insurance through marketplaces created under Obamacare.ZocDoc Inc. and Oscar Health Insurance Corp. are providing free...
Dec 7 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that insurers will issue more than $2 million in rebates to 14,399 health insurance policyholders in Delaware as a result of the Affordable Care Act’s...
Dec 4 2015 // American Fidelity Assurance Company (AFA), a life and health insurance company based in Oklahoma City, has agreed to pay $209,000 to settle allegations that it failed to cover mandated benefits required by state law and...
Dec 3 2015 // Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has replaced the chairman and one other member of a state board that establishes health insurance exchanges for small-business employees and individual consumers.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette...
Dec 1 2015 // New Hampshire’s Insurance Department is examining whether insurance companies are appropriately covering substance abuse services as required by law. The probe comes as New Hampshire seeks to expand treatment and...
Nov 23 2015 // Arkansas consumers and businesses are owed more than $7.1 million from health insurers because those companies collected too much in premiums last year than what they spent on medical care, according to federal...
Nov 20 2015 // Regional health system Avera Health is buying the DAKOTACARE health insurance company, creating what it says will be the second-largest health insurer in South Dakota.The two Sioux Falls-based companies announced their...
Nov 20 2015 // The fate of Barack Obama’s signature health- care law may depend on how long Anthem Inc. and Aetna Inc. are willing to wait before starting to make money off it.The two insurers are on the hot seat now that...
Nov 16 2015 // Two U.S. consumer groups announced the formation of a coalition with New York labor unions last week to press antitrust regulators to oppose big insurance mergers that would cut the number of nationwide for-profit health...
Nov 16 2015 // Consumers Mutual Co-Op, in consultation with the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS), has decided to enter into a run off of its health insurance business, the DIFS announced. Consumers Mutual...
Nov 11 2015 // The American Medical Association asked U.S. antitrust regulators to block two proposed mergers that could reshape the health insurance industry.Anthem Inc. shouldn’t be permitted to buy Cigna Corp. and Aetna Inc....
Nov 6 2015 // Consumers Mutual Co-Op, in consultation with the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS), has decided to enter into a run off of its health insurance business, the DIFS announced.Consumers Mutual...