All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 4 2019 // Workers’ compensation medical costs vary widely among the states both in terms of price and how often services are used. The differences appear to relate closely to which cost-drivers each state legislature tried to...
Oct 21 2019 // Workers’ compensation medical costs vary widely among the states both in terms of price and how often services are used. The differences appear to relate closely to which cost-drivers each state legislature tried to...
Oct 21 2019 // Approximately 25% of spending in the U.S. health care system can be characterized as waste. That’s between $760 billion and $935 billion annually.A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Oct 17 2019 // Some Britons living in the Europe Union are worried about losing access to free healthcare after Brexit, opening up a potentially lucrative new market for European health insurers.“I am indebted to France for my...
Oct 11 2019 // Wisconsin insurance officials say state residents will have more health insurance options this year as open enrollment approaches.The state Office of the Commissioner of Insurance says 61 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties...
Oct 8 2019 // Approximately 25 percent of spending in the U.S. health care system can be characterized as waste. That’s between $760 billion and $935 billion annually.A study published today in the Journal of the American Medical...
Oct 1 2019 // The cost of family health coverage in the U.S. now tops $20,000, an annual survey of employers found, a record high that has pushed an increasing number of American workers into plans that cover less or cost more, or force...
Sep 12 2019 // The number of Louisiana residents without health insurance is falling, even as the national uninsured rate grew last year.New data released Tuesday from the Census Bureau shows 8% percent of people in Louisiana, or 363,000...
Sep 11 2019 // The rate of Texans without health insurance rose for the second year in a row, making it once again the most uninsured state in the nation, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.In 2018, 17.7% of...
Aug 1 2019 // Arkansas officials say the four companies providing coverage through the state’s insurance exchange under the federal health care overhaul law are seeking an average rate increase of about 2% for next year. Insurance...
Aug 1 2019 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread says the proposed state-based reinsurance program developed by the North Dakota Insurance Department for the individual health insurance market has been approved by the...
Jul 24 2019 // The top Republican and Democrat on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee announced a proposal to lower prescription drug prices on Tuesday that could save $100 billion in costs to government healthcare programs, and said the...
Jul 19 2019 // The Trump administration can expand the sale of short-term health insurance policies that don’t meet the standards of the Affordable Care Act, a federal judge ruled, advancing the government’s efforts to undo...
Jun 27 2019 // One year after its initial public offering raised $84 million, online insurance marketplace EverQuote announced it is expanding into health insurance and renters insurance, building on its existing auto, home and life...
Jun 17 2019 // President Donald Trump’s attempt to transform American health insurance is almost complete.Twenty months ago, frustrated after attempts to repeal Obamacare fell apart in the Republican-controlled Senate, Trump...
May 30 2019 // Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on May 28 defended a pending overhaul of the state’s auto insurance law, saying treatment for injured drivers will “still be there” if they forego what has been a...
May 21 2019 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has filed an action to stop Georgia-based Aliera Healthcare from selling health insurance in Texas without a state license.The public hearing will begin at 9 a.m. May 28 at the State...
May 3 2019 // Congressional budget experts said this week that moving to a government-run health care system like “Medicare for All” could be complicated and potentially disruptive for Americans.The report from the...
Apr 25 2019 // Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has called on lawmakers to reverse a consequence of 2017 law that repealed the state’s ban on for-profit health maintenance organizations, saying for-profit companies could...
Apr 22 2019 // North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a bill that allows for establishing a reinsurance pool for the individual health insurance market in that state.House Bill 1106, backed by the North Dakota Department of Insurance,...