All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jun 12 2012 // It sounds like a silver lining. Even if the Supreme Court overturns President Barack Obama’s health care law, employers can keep offering popular coverage for the young adult children of their workers.But...
Jun 11 2012 // UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer by market value, said it would maintain the health coverage protections included in President Barack Obama’s healthcare law regardless of how the Supreme Court...
Jun 8 2012 // A Houston man has pleaded guilty to recruiting patients for a healthcare provider in return for kickbacks.Floyd Leslie Brooks, 45, entered a plea of guilty to conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute for his role in...
Jun 5 2012 // Pittsburgh-headquartered health insurance giant Highmark Inc. has named Dr. William Winkenwerder as the company’s new chief executive officer.Dr. William Winkenwerder The appointment comes two months after previous...
May 31 2012 // It seemed like a good idea at the time.But a health insurance tax credit for small businesses, part of President Barack Obama’s health care law that gets strong support in public opinion polls, has turned out to be a...
May 21 2012 // If you hunt for answers among California’s myriad experts and those with informed opinions on workers’ compensation and ask them to name the biggest problem with the system, a majority will cite the rising...
May 18 2012 // South Dakota has been awarded a $5.9 million federal grant to continue research into the possibility of a state-run health insurance exchange.But Gov. Dennis Daugaard says the state will continue to wait for the outcome of...
May 18 2012 // A proposal that would have set up a body of elected and appointed officials to craft the health insurance exchanges that anchor President Barack Obama’s health overhaul has failed to gain traction in the Louisiana...
May 17 2012 // Hawaii’s two largest health insurance providers earned operating income during the first three months of the year.Hawaii Medical Service Association on Tuesday reported operating gain of $7.2 million for the quarter,...