All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 1 2012 // A physician and the office manager of his medical practice, along with five owners of home health agencies, were arrested today on charges related to their alleged participation in a nearly $375 million health care fraud...
Mar 1 2012 // The Maine supreme court has rejected health insurer Anthem’s claim that it has a right to a 3-percent profit and risk margin when setting individual health insurance premiums. Maine’s insurance superintendent...
Mar 1 2012 // Florida legislators, saying that they differ from rank-and-file state workers, have killed an effort to force themselves to pay more for their health insurance.The 160 members in the Florida Legislature pay among the...
Feb 28 2012 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department announced last week it has formed a new consumer unit to respond to questions about health insurance.“This new unit supplements our health insurance complaint-handling...
Feb 21 2012 // Eliminating the federal mandate in the new healthcare law that every individual carry health insurance would sharply lower the number of people gaining coverage, but would not dramatically increase the cost of buying...
Feb 21 2012 // Court Limits What Medical Bills Juries Can ViewInsurance companies, and ultimately California consumers, avoided a windfall sought by the Consumer Attorneys of California to the tune of more than $3 billion dollars per...
Feb 21 2012 // The federal government has rejected Wisconsin’s request to phase in a requirement that health insurers spent 80 cents of every dollar in premiums on medical care, one of the provisions of the Obama...
Feb 21 2012 // Federal regulators last week allowed North Carolina insurers a one-year delay in meeting a benchmark requiring that more of each health insurance premium dollar to go toward medical services and less toward overhead and...
Feb 20 2012 // It looks like the freeze may be over. For the first time since 2008, independent agency salaries rose in 2011, albeit only slightly.According to Insurance Journal‘s annual Agency Salary Survey, the average salary...
Feb 20 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...
Feb 16 2012 // The New York State Department of Financial Services has launched a wide-ranging probe of the accuracy of the data used by insurers and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to request health insurance rate...
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...