All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 13 2007 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has released a new statewide report today that shows the costs of uncompensated health care continued to rise in 2006, posing a threat to the overall health security of all...
Dec 2 2007 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has named Scott Kipper administrator of its Insurance Division, DCBS Director Cory Streisinger announced. Kipper replaces Joel Ario, who left in July to become...
Nov 29 2007 // More than 850,000 of the 1.5 million Texas children who don’t have health insurance are eligible for but not enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program or Medicaid, a state official says.Health and...
Nov 26 2007 // More than five hundred businesses in Massachusetts that failed to offer insurance options to their employees under the state’s landmark health care law will be required to pay $5 million in fees.That’s far...
Nov 15 2007 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has named Scott Kipper administrator of its Insurance Division, DCBS Director Cory Streisinger announced. Kipper replaces Joel Ario, who left in July to become...
Nov 13 2007 // New rules proposed by the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation will help injured workers in finding and receiving care from a physician, according to the Texas Medical Association.Among the...
Nov 6 2007 // The state of Nebraska discriminated against its black employees because state workers who live in Lincoln and Omaha were offered inferior health insurance than their counterparts in other parts of the state, according to a...
Oct 22 2007 // Small businesses with state-subsidized health insurance through the Insure Montana program face double-digit race increases next year, officials said.Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana, the company that sells and...
Oct 17 2007 // A state senator says he will soon announce plans to require all New Jerseyans to carry medical insurance, but the governor warned that the plan could cost more than $1 billion.“We are going to announce just after the...
Oct 15 2007 // In an effort to clarify business and individual responsibilities under the Massachusetts Health Reform Act, the Massachusetts Association of Health Underwriters (MassAHU) has launched the Web site at...
Oct 9 2007 // The Kentucky Office of Insurance is investigating reports that an unidentified company is selling health insurance in Kentucky without proper authorization.A flyer, which has been faxed to consumers in Kentucky, does not...
Oct 3 2007 // Several states say they will challenge the Bush administration in federal court over its new rules that block the expansion of a health insurance program for children from low-income families.Arizona, California, Illinois,...
Oct 3 2007 // A risk pool for uninsurable South Dakotans and Medicaid-based subsidies for health insurance premiums are among recommendations of a state task force.The group also recommends research be done into the types of assistance...
Sep 28 2007 // More than $1 million was recovered on behalf of consumers by the Connecticut Insurance Department’s Consumer Affairs Division during the second quarter, according to Insurance Commissioner Thomas R. Sullivan.The bulk...
Sep 24 2007 // The federal government has given Indiana the go-ahead on its state-subsidized health care plan for low-income adults that will be partially funded by an increase in the cigarette tax. The deal will allow Indiana to provide...
Sep 20 2007 // Mo. Gov. Matt Blunt said the number of uninsured Missourians could be reduced by nearly one-third under a plan he outlined this week to provide government-subsidized health care to lower-income families.The Republican,...
Aug 30 2007 // Poverty dropped in Illinois last year, but the number of residents without health insurance increased, U.S. Census data released this week shows.About 1.39 million, or 11 percent, of state residents last year were poor,...
Aug 24 2007 // Humana Insurance Co. has paid a $500,000 fine for using unlicensed agents to sell Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans to Oklahoma seniors, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland said.She said Humana, which...
Aug 17 2007 // New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has warned two major health insurers, Aetna and Cigna Healthcare, that their physician ranking programs, as currently designed, “are likely to confuse or even deceive...
Aug 16 2007 // Governor Bob Riley is renewing his call for the State Employees Insurance Board to reject state senators’ attempts to give themselves taxpayer-subsidized health insurance.“First they gave themselves a huge pay...