All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 11 2015 // The parent company of Milwaukee, Wis.-based Assurant Health says it has reached agreement to sell some business lines and assets to National General Holdings Corp. as it exits the health insurance market.Time Insurance Co....
Jun 11 2015 // Assurant Inc. has officially decided it will exit the health insurance market to focus instead on its housing and lifestyle specialty protection products. The firm has reached an agreement to sell its Assurant Health...
Jun 11 2015 // George Rawlings grabs a stack of computer printouts and stretches them six feet across his office, admiring data from police reports of Florida auto accidents: the names of those hurt and the severity of their injuries.For...
Jun 10 2015 // A national upswing of health insurance rates is coming to Pennsylvania, and that could mean bigger-than-expected cost increases next year for at least a couple hundred thousand Pennsylvanians who bought insurance in the...
Jun 9 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court probably shouldn’t have accepted a lawsuit challenging Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies, President Barack Obama said, calling it an “easy case.”“Frankly it...
Jun 4 2015 // Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration said Tuesday it has formally applied to take over the operation of Pennsylvania’s health insurance marketplace as the Democrat seeks a bulwark against the potential...
Jun 3 2015 // Blue Cross Blue Shield and Blue Care Network, which sell medical insurance to more than half of Michigan residents who buy their own coverage under the federal health care law, are seeking 2016 premium increases that...
May 27 2015 // Minnesota’s health insurance exchange is having a big problem with attracting small businesses.MNsure was originally expected to cover 155,000 people in small-group plans by next year. Enrollment was only 1,405...
May 21 2015 // CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, which sells health insurance in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, said on Wednesday that a cyberattack compromised the data of 1.1 million current and former...
May 7 2015 // Massachusetts continues to the lead the nation in health care with more than 96 percent of residents reporting coverage despite lingering cost barriers.That’s according to a survey by The Center for Health...
May 5 2015 // MNsure’s chief executive is resigning to take another job, the health insurance exchange confirmed, paving the way for a third leadership shakeup at the beleaguered agency in less than two years.Scott Leitz was set...
May 4 2015 // The state-based workers’ compensation system has stayed on its feet for 100 years in part by being able to defend itself against blows and then counterpunch when necessary. It has shown an ability to reform to fit...
Apr 30 2015 // New York-based specialty insurer Assurant, Inc. said it is exploring strategic alternatives for its employee benefits and health business segments, including the sale of each business.If it can’t sell its health...
Apr 29 2015 // Federal prosecutors say a central Georgia hospital system has agreed to a multimillion dollar settlement to resolve allegations of fraudulent Medicare billing.Authorities say the Medical Center of Central Georgia has...
Apr 27 2015 // Governance of Minnesota’s health insurance exchange could be in for a change, but MNsure won’t go away entirely.The Democratic-led Minnesota Senate defeated GOP attempts to dismantle MNsure. Several...
Apr 27 2015 // Nearly a fifth of the National Football League settlement approved last week compensating former players with head injuries could go to their health insurers instead.As a result of federal laws and court rulings enabling...
Apr 20 2015 // An appeals court has ruled that Missouri can’t limit health insurance navigators’ ability to help people obtain insurance under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law.The 8th Circuit Court in St. Louis...
Apr 15 2015 // A Missouri lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses three insurance subsidiaries of failing to safeguard sensitive consumer data from hackers who recently breached health insurer Anthem Inc.’s computer networks.A...
Apr 13 2015 // An appeals court has ruled that Missouri can’t limit health insurance navigators’ ability to help people obtain insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law — a ruling that advocates say...
Apr 10 2015 // Connecticut’s Medicare-based fee schedule for workers’ compensation involving hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services went into effect April 1.Previously, there...