All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 29 2011 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has adopted a resolution urging Congress to amend the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to ensure...
Nov 22 2011 // Four Louisiana physicians wrote hundreds of bogus prescriptions that powered multimillion-dollar health-care frauds in the Baton Rouge area, according to evidence amassed by the nearly two-year-old local Medicare Fraud...
Nov 22 2011 // The breakdown of deficit talks in Congress will exact little pain on the U.S. healthcare industry, but it’s a temporary reprieve from steeper cuts that could be put back on the table in 2013.The failure of the...
Nov 17 2011 // A legislative panel exploring the impact of the new federal health care law on Oklahoma will likely suggest that the state should do the minimum amount required to comply with the act, the committee’s chairman...
Nov 16 2011 // The American Medical Association added pressure on U.S. states to steer toward the system that opens doors to all insurers who meet minimum standards as they build up their health insurance exchanges.The influential...
Nov 14 2011 // Angered by a federal health care law that most of them despise, North Dakota House Republicans defeated legislation to give state officials authority over a health insurance marketing agency that the law requires states to...
Nov 14 2011 // The percentage of Americans who have health insurance through their employer slipped to a new low of 44.5 percent in the third quarter, a drop of over 5 percentage points in three years, according to a poll released...
Nov 10 2011 // A ballot initiative to expand the scope of California’s Proposition 103 to include health insurance could also impact the auto insurance industry by challenging a long-sought-after initiative on auto insurance...
Oct 31 2011 // Like a lot of companies, Veridian Credit Union wants its employees to be healthier. In January, the Waterloo, Iowa-company rolled out a wellness program and voluntary screenings.It also gave workers a mandate: quit...
Oct 28 2011 // Occupy Wall Street protesters held a speak-out and march in New York City targeting the health insurance industry. Several hundred protesters marched on Wednesday, Oct. 26, to the offices at Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield,...
Oct 27 2011 // Harrisburg, Penn.-based health insurer Capital BlueCross is now offering insurance for the four-legged pals.The company said it is teaming up with Philadelphia-based pet insurance provider PetPlan to offer pet health...
Oct 24 2011 // IronHealth, the specialty healthcare unit of Ironshore Inc., has introduced an insurance program to address the institutional risk exposure created by the specific reporting requirements of Section 111 of the Medicare,...
Oct 24 2011 // The parent company of American Republic has told employees in Des Moines, Iowa, and Omaha, Neb., it is getting out of the individual major medical insurance business.The Des Moines Register reported 110 positions will be...
Oct 20 2011 // Misty Baker has joined the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas as director of health insurance information. In this newly created role, Baker will serve as a member resource for agency personnel working in life and...
Oct 17 2011 // Business travelers say there’s no substitute for being there.Even though budgets are tight and new technology makes it easy for people to connect virtually anywhere, businesses understand that it is crucial for...
Oct 3 2011 // Business travelers say there’s no substitute for being there. Even though budgets are tight and new technology makes it easy for people to connect virtually anywhere, businesses understand that it is crucial for...
Sep 28 2011 // Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, an outspoken opponent of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform, proposed a plan Tuesday that could effectively dismantle the way most Americans get health insurance by reducing...
Sep 16 2011 // A Baton Rouge, La., judge has refused to block the state from signing contracts with three private insurance companies chosen to take part in Louisiana’s new health-care delivery system for the poor. In a separate...
Sep 14 2011 // A federal judge in Pennsylvania said the insurance-buying mandate in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is unconstitutional, the latest ruling over an issue likely to be taken up by the U.S. Supreme...
Sep 2 2011 // A federal judge will allow a lawsuit filed in Mississippi challenging part of the Obama administration’s health care law to continue.U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, in a ruling issued Aug. 29, denied the Obama...