All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 21 2021 // Aston Lark, the Goldman Sachs-based insurance broker, announced two acquisitions in one day: Deanspoint Insurance Brokers, which trades in Ireland as Abbey Murphy Insurance, and The Health Insurance Company, based in...
Aug 16 2021 // Fully funded or level funded traditional health insurance provided by employers is not insurance except for people who buy their own insurance, i.e., the small business owner. To qualify as insurance, the insurance policy...
Feb 22 2021 // Insurance is a financial product designed to protect consumers’ and businesses’ balance sheets. If your house burns down and you have insurance, the insurance company pays to rebuild the asset known as your...
Dec 30 2020 // A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a White House-backed rule to require hospitals to disclose the prices they negotiate with insurers for an array of common tests and procedures.The 2-0 decision by the U.S. Court of...
Oct 30 2020 // Federal health officials Wednesday issued insurance coverage rules designed to deliver on the promise that every American will have access to free COVID-19 vaccines when they are approved.The regulations from the Centers...
Sep 30 2020 // Anthem Inc. said on Wednesday it would pay $39.5 million as part of a settlement with U.S. states attorneys general following an investigation into a massive cyber-attack at the company in 2015.The second largest U.S....
Sep 11 2020 // As evidence grew this spring that the drug remdesivir was helping COVID-19 patients, some Wall Street investors bet on analysts’ estimates that its maker, Gilead Sciences Inc., could charge up to $10,000 for the...
Sep 10 2020 // Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center were on edge as early as March when patients with COVID-19 began to show up in areas of the hospital that were not set aside to care for them.The Centers for Disease Control and...
Aug 31 2020 // Telehealth is a bit of American ingenuity that seems to have paid off in the coronavirus pandemic. Medicare temporarily waived restrictions predating the smartphone era and now there’s a push to make telemedicine...
Aug 17 2020 // Progressive will enter the voluntary benefits market through a relationship with Pets Best, which is part of Care Credit, a Synchrony product.Progressive Pet Insurance by Pets Best will be available to all U.S. companies...
Jul 15 2020 // Job loss stemming from the coronavirus stripped health insurance from an estimated 659,000 Texans between February and May, according to a new study.The analysis, published on July 14 by Families USA, a nonpartisan...
Jul 9 2020 // Patriot Growth Insurance Services, LLC, a nationwide insurance agency, has added two Florida-based independent agencies, Arison Insurance Services, and Ference Insurance (FIA), to the Patriot platform.Arison and FIA each...
Jul 7 2020 // Government health insurance provider Centene Corp. said on Wednesday it will build an East Coast campus in Charlotte, North Carolina, developing a $1 billion construction project that’s expected to create more than...
Jul 6 2020 // A new team at the Texas Department of Insurance has been established to identify and quickly resolve issues involving health insurers in the state.Michael Nored, previously special counsel to the commissioner, was tapped...
Apr 27 2020 // A robocalling company attempting to sell fraudulent and deceptive health insurance plans has been sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for alleged violations of the Texas No Call Act and the Texas Deceptive Trade...
Mar 30 2020 // While the property/casualty insurance industry is fighting attempts to force it to pay for the huge business income losses that it says most policies were never intended to cover, some individual insurers are finding small...
Mar 23 2020 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department has announced that Chris Nicolopoulos was confirmed by the New Hampshire Executive Council as insurance commissioner succeeding John Elias, who resigned in December less than two...
Mar 11 2020 // Millennium Physicians Association PLLC has paid the United States $1,248,964 to resolve claims that they improperly billed the Medicare program for sleep studies, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District...
Mar 5 2020 // Health insurers added about $48 billion in market value and led U.S. stock market gains on Wednesday after Joe Biden’s once-faltering Democratic presidential campaign was reanimated on Super Tuesday.The...
Mar 3 2020 // The New York State Department of Financial Services is requiring New York health insurers to waive cost sharing associated with testing for novel coronavirus, including emergency room, urgent care and office visits.New...