All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 29 2014 // Maryland hadn’t had a health insurance co-op for 20 years. Then Dr. Peter Beilenson came along.Although Beilenson — who has held a number of prominent health positions — describes himself as a staunch...
Apr 29 2014 // A Minnesota health insurance company didn’t expect to offer some of the nation’s lowest premiums – it just turned out that way for PreferredOne.PreferredOne had been just a small player in...
Apr 28 2014 // A Monmouth County, New Jersey, woman has been indicted for allegedly submitting more than $500,000 in bogus invoices to her health insurance company.A state grand jury indictment alleges that from March 2011 and March...
Apr 11 2014 // Minnesota’s legislative auditor said he plans to conduct a thorough, independent review of the troubled launch of Minnesota’s health insurance exchange.“The evaluation will be a comprehensive, in-depth...
Apr 10 2014 // Gov. Mark Dayton lashed out at critics of Minnesota’s health insurance exchange, accusing them of waging a propaganda campaign to destroy it.The Democratic governor spoke to reporters a day after GOP members of the...
Apr 10 2014 // The largest health insurer in Massachusetts has cut prescriptions of narcotic painkillers by an estimated 6.6 million pills in 18 months as part of a campaign to curb abuse.The decline in prescribed opiates including...
Apr 7 2014 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak announced that health insurers may continue to renew policies not meeting Affordable Care Act requirements through 2016.The announcement came after the federal government released...
Apr 2 2014 // U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, a prominent Republican critic of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, unveiled legislation on Tuesday to make sure Obamacare would not add to the deficit by compensating insurance...
Mar 31 2014 // President Barack Obama’s embattled U.S. healthcare law, having survived a rollout marred by technology failures, reaches a milestone on Monday with the end of its first enrollment wave, and with the administration...
Mar 24 2014 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak announced that health insurers may continue to renew policies not meeting Affordable Care Act requirements through 2016.The announcement came after the federal government released...
Mar 21 2014 // For the second year in row, salaries and total compensation rose in independent insurance agencies across the nation.That’s according to Insurance Journal’s annual Agency Salary Survey 2014. This year all...
Mar 19 2014 // Illinois officials hope that using humor can give the state’s health insurance enrollment numbers the same kind of bump that the federal site saw after President Barack Obama bantered about the law with actor Zach...
Mar 18 2014 // A snapshot of Obamacare enrollment in seven states suggests the law hasn’t significantly increased competition in health insurance markets, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported.In California, for example, four big...
Mar 14 2014 // Obamacare’s requirement that all Americans carry insurance or face penalties, part of the effort to gain universal coverage, may not be much of a rule at all.Millions of people may be exempt from the requirement...
Mar 12 2014 // Workers’ compensation must align itself with the rest of the changing healthcare system to avoid increased cost-shifting by workers and medical providers, according to an economist involved in the Massachusetts and...
Mar 12 2014 // The three major companies in Louisiana offering coverage through the federal insurance exchange have agreed to continue to accept premium payments through Nov. 15 from a program that helps HIV/AIDS patients cover their...
Mar 7 2014 // Delaware state officials say about 7,000 Delawareans have chosen private insurance plans under the federal Affordable Care Act.Delaware’s Health and Social Services Secretary Rita Landgraf told the state Health Care...
Feb 28 2014 // More than three months after it opened for business, California’s online health insurance marketplace had what federal officials described as a potential security flaw in its computer system and one that had already...
Feb 24 2014 // For the second year in a row, salaries and total compensation rose in independent insurance agencies across the nation. More agencies are offering health insurance and benefits offerings seem to be up – although at a...
Feb 21 2014 // The property/casualty insurance industry is likely to face cost shifting by hospitals, physicians and other medical providers due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to an insurance industry...