All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 23 2015 // The U.S. said it sent 800,000 Americans incorrect information that may affect how much they owe in taxes this year because of subsidies they got to help pay for health insurance under Obamacare.People affected by the error...
Feb 19 2015 // Five Republican state governors say they will not rescue a crucial part of Obamacare if it is struck down by the Supreme Court, underlining the prospect for a chaotic aftermath to a ruling that could force millions of...
Feb 12 2015 // In the workers’ compensation space, not only have claim costs increased because of medical issues, but the landscape has also become much more complex. Along with the elevated incidence of fraud, economic fears, and...
Feb 11 2015 // U.S. President Barack Obama singled out office supply giant Staples Inc. as undercutting his healthcare reform law and said large corporations should not use the health insurance issue as an excuse for cutting wages, the...
Feb 5 2015 // Hackers have stolen personal information relating to current and former customers and staff of no. 2 U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc., after breaching an IT system containing data on up to 80 million people, the company...
Feb 3 2015 // Medford, NJ, February 3, 2015: Peter Mangiola R.N. MSN has over 25 years of experience in the medical field, working in a wide variety of key positions. For the past several years, he owned and operated two New Jersey...
Jan 9 2015 // Eleven Kansas hospitals are among more than 700 nationwide that have been penalized for having high rates of infections or patient injuries, leading to a 1 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements since the current...
Nov 24 2014 // U.S. House Republicans sued President Barack Obama’s administration over implementation of the 2010 healthcare law, saying the president exceeded his authority by delaying part of the program.The complaint filed...
Nov 19 2014 // A new University of Tennessee report says the number of uninsured people in Tennessee has hit a 10-year low.The number of people without health insurance shrunk about 25 percent in the first year of the health insurance...
Nov 18 2014 // Nonprofit groups preparing to help people in Louisiana sign up for insurance under the federal health care law say they have had to battle misinformation and misconceptions about the program as they prepared for the Nov....
Nov 11 2014 // Joan Rivers, the comedian and television personality who died after undergoing a medical procedure in New York, didn’t give permission for all the work done at Yorkville Endoscopy LLC, U.S. regulators said.The...
Nov 9 2014 // Under pressure from lawmakers and retirees, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration announced it will lessen the impact of upcoming changes for the state worker health insurance program.Increases in out-of-pocket costs...
Nov 5 2014 // Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration announced that it will refund nearly $4.5 million in increased costs that state employees paid under changes to their health insurance program.The start date of insurance program...
Nov 3 2014 // Men may be more gullible when it comes to insurance myths than women but even women think a number of popular myths about insurance are true, according to a survey by online insurance seller insure.com.Insure.com said it...
Oct 30 2014 // Indianapolis, Ind.-based WellPoint raised its 2014 earnings forecast again and trumped third-quarter expectations as the overhaul of the healthcare system adds millions to the nation’s health insurance rolls, and at...
Oct 28 2014 // Alabama consumers will see more competition when the health insurance marketplace opens next month for its second year.United Healthcare took a cautious approach to the marketplaces the first year and chose not to...
Oct 21 2014 // Men may be more gullible when it comes to insurance myths than women but even women think a number of popular myths about insurance are true, according to a survey by online insurance seller insure.com.Insure.com said it...
Oct 15 2014 // Massachusetts health insurers have recently begun providing online cost-estimator tools that allow consumers to compare prices of medical procedures by various health care providers, as required by a transparency provision...
Oct 9 2014 // South Dakota patients could have more choice of doctors within their health insurance networks if voters approve a ballot measure that is drawing strong opposition from the health insurance industry.The proposal on the...
Oct 6 2014 // A Missouri consumer group announced that it has sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the latest effort to obtain information used to justify the rates consumers will pay for insurance on the federally...