All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 11 2012 // Gov. Mark Dayton has reiterated his intention to continue developing a health insurance exchange for Minnesota.The Democratic governor wrote to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius confirming his...
Jul 11 2012 // The South Central region of the country, particularly Texas, has been a hotbed of activity when it comes to mergers and acquisitions of smaller health and benefit agencies. The reason, according to agencies in the region,...
Jul 9 2012 // More than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the sweeping federal health care law, Oklahoma’s political leaders have offered few specifics about how the state will proceed in complying with its...
Jul 2 2012 // Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said he wants to wait until after the presidential election to comply with a key provision of the federal health care overhaul upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, but the state’s Republican...
Jul 2 2012 // “One way or another.”Is that the best way to describe a sound investment strategy nowadays? Yes. If you’re talking about the growing number of agencies investing in group health benefits...
Jul 2 2012 // The Obama administration announced that 300,000 Illinoisans will benefit from nearly $62 million in rebates from insurance companies because of the federal health law that critics have labeled “Obamacare.”The...
Jun 29 2012 // Santa Monica, Calif.-based Consumer Watchdog’s proposed ballot measure to require health insurance companies to get approval before raising their rates narrowly missed qualifying for November’s ballot by...
Jun 29 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to keep the Affordable Care Act largely intact is a step toward ensuring that health insurance markets attract a broad cross section of risk, a cornerstone to any viable health...
Jun 29 2012 // Hospitals and insurers providing Medicaid plans for the poor emerged as the main corporate winners from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, while investors in...
Jun 28 2012 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones praised the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act – and he took the opportunity to state his support for health rate hike reviews...
Jun 28 2012 // Insurance rating organization A.M. Best Co. says the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will not have a ratings impact to the majority of health insurers.However, A.M. Best...
Jun 28 2012 // Some key excerpts from the majority opinion written in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius by Chief Justice John Roberts:The Framers gave Congress the power to regulate commerce, not to compel it, and...
Jun 28 2012 // Industry and other reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have been coming in. Readers are encouraged to offer their own reactions in Comments...
Jun 28 2012 // The U.S Supreme Court today upheld the individual mandate that is the centerpiece of President Obama’s healthcare reform law.The court has upheld most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act but did find...
Jun 28 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law, expected on Thursday, may have wide-ranging political and economic implications.Here is a look at possible scenarios for...
Jun 27 2012 // The check may not be in the mail.The Obama administration said in a report last week that 12.8 million people will benefit from health insurance rebates averaging $151 per household. But the number of families actually...
Jun 27 2012 // State officials say Massachusetts residents and small employers will benefit from $56.8 million in health insurance rebates. Insurance commissioner Joseph Murphy said on Tuesday that the rebates, from five of the...
Jun 22 2012 // The Obama administration has announced that 300,000 Illinoisans will benefit from nearly $62 million in rebates from insurance companies because of the federal health law that critics have labeled...
Jun 22 2012 // U.S. health insurance companies are due to pay out $1.1 billion in rebates to employers and individuals this summer, under a new industry regulation imposed by President Barack Obama’s health care law, the...
Jun 19 2012 // Federal prosecutors say a Texas-based hospital system has paid millions of dollars to settle a false claims lawsuit.Christus Spohn Health System Corp. has paid the United States more than $5 million to settle allegations...