All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 14 2012 // Westchester, Ill.-based American Westbrook Insurance announced it has launched a national private health insurance exchange. The individual insurance exchange serves members in more than 40 states and offers products and...
Feb 13 2012 // Vermont lawmakers will decide this winter how their state will design a health insurance exchange. The federal Affordable Care Act requires states to create exchanges by 2014 or have the government do it for them. The...
Feb 13 2012 // The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is going overtime as it decides whether to stick with federal standards that could mean $12 million in rebates for more than 58,000 North Carolina residents who buy their...
Feb 9 2012 // The California Office of Administrative Law approved Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ request to make permanent an emergency regulation he issued last year that requires health insurers to put a larger share of...
Feb 8 2012 // State regulators are examining a $1.5 million proposal by an Oregon insurer to take over a portion of Montana’s third-largest health insurance company as part of a government anti-trust settlement.Commissioner of...
Feb 6 2012 // John Norwood is one of California’s best known legislative advocates for the insurance and financial services sectors.Norwood, principal of Norwood & Associates, has garnered recognition for his political work...
Jan 24 2012 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart expressed concern for soon-to-retire Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964), many of whom will face the uncertain prospect of finding alternative health...
Jan 24 2012 // A former northwestern Pennsylvania cardiologist says in a lawsuit a hospital improperly paid doctors who performed unnecessary procedures on patients, including two who died.The suit filed this month by Dr. Tullio Emanuele...
Jan 24 2012 // When your health insurance provider denies an experimental treatment or a high-cost drug, how much are you willing to pay for the care you believe you need?Barby Ingle, a former cheerleading and dance coach at Washington...
Jan 18 2012 // Health insurance companies in Arizona are facing scrutiny from Washington as federal authorities have taken over reviews of rate increases of 10 percent or more from the state.The Arizona Republic reported that federal...
Jan 17 2012 // A cash-strapped businessman torches his home then massacres five people to keep witnesses from testifying. A cop shoots himself to steal workers’ comp money. Two scammers stuff a coffin with a mannequin and cow parts...
Jan 12 2012 // The Oklahoma insurance regulators announced that a Tulsa area man has been charged unlawfully selling health insurance to Oklahoma customers.The Oklahoma Insurance Department said Terry L. McCrackin, 64, was charged in...
Jan 9 2012 // Reaching a settlement amount between the carrier and a plaintiff over a personal injury claim is sometimes the easiest part of a settlement where Medicare liens are involved. Medicare is a payer of last resort, which...
Jan 9 2012 // A California consumer group is challenging a rate hike bid by Mercury Insurance because the group claims the company is trying to pass along the costs of its political campaigning.But the insurer says those costs are not...
Jan 5 2012 // Oklahoma’s top insurance regulator believes the medical insurance market is headed for “disruption” as a result of the medical loss ratio component of federal health insurance reformAfter Oklahoma’s...
Dec 31 2011 // The last time Mark Stella went to the dentist he didn’t need an insurance card. Instead, he pulled out a Groupon.Stella, a small business owner, canceled his health insurance plan more than three years ago when his...
Dec 29 2011 // Unions representing state workers in New York have filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Cuomo administration challenging an increase in health insurance contributions for thousands of retirees.According to the...
Dec 29 2011 // Coventry Health Care of Nebraska will be the new health plan administrator for Nebraska’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool.The state program is designed to provide health insurance for Nebraskans who can’t...
Dec 22 2011 // A California consumer group is challenging a rate hike bid by Mercury Insurance because the group claims the company is trying to pass along the costs of its political campaigning.But the insurer says those costs are not...
Dec 22 2011 // An Internet business operating out of Washington state has been told to cease misrepresenting itself as linked to any official Kansas health insurance exchange.Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Sandy Praeger has ordered a...