Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Medicare: 5 Compliance Trends to Look for in Plan Year 2025
May 28 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. In 2024, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced changes to the rules it sets for Medicare Supplement, Medicare Advantage, and Part D insurance...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Buys Health Insurance Consultants Australia
May 6 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Illinois-based broker, announced the acquisition of Melbourne, Victoria-based Health Insurance Consultants Australia (HICA). Terms of the transaction were not...
South Africa’s President Will Sign Health Insurance Bill Into Law
Feb 16 2024 // South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that he planned to sign into law a National Health Insurance (NHI) bill that aims to provide universal health coverage to South Africans, although he did not...
Colombia to Pay $215 Million in Liabilities to Health Insurers
Dec 28 2023 // The Colombian government will pay private health insurers 820 billion pesos ($215 million) of funds owed since last year for high-cost treatments and medicines, according to a letter by the health ministry. In the letter...
Indiana-Based Health Network Settles Medicare Fraud Case, Agrees to Pay $345 Million
Dec 21 2023 // INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – An Indianapolis-based health network has agreed to pay the government $345 million to resolve charges it defrauded Medicare by overpaying doctors who referred patients to its facilities, prosecutors...
Hacked Philippine Health Insurer Didn’t Have Cyber Protection Software
Oct 10 2023 // The Philippines’ state health insurer didn’t have cyber protection software when hackers attacked its computers, giving criminals access to the data of millions of its citizens and triggering calls for an...
Cigna Announces Settlement With US on Claims it Overcharged Medicare Advantage
Oct 2 2023 // Health insurer Cigna Group says it has reached a settlement with the United States over claims it overcharged the government’s Medicare Advantage program by making it appear patients were more ill than they actually...
Allianz Q2 Profit Jumps 7.1% on Higher Results from US Life & Health Insurance
Aug 10 2023 // Allianz SE, the German owner of bond giant Pacific Investment Management Co., said its second-quarter profit jumped from a year earlier as stronger earnings from its insurance business offset weaknesses in its asset...
Medicare Recovery Firm that Sued Auto Insurers Said to be Under Investigation
Aug 1 2023 // The Florida lawyer and entrepreneur who reportedly made millions by disrupting the auto insurance industry’s Medicare set-aside practices is under federal investigation and may be in financial trouble, according to...
New England Health Insurer Still Dealing With Ransomware Attack
May 24 2023 // Point32Health, the parent company of Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, is still dealing with a ransomware attack it first reported on April 17. The company has now disclosed that patient information has...
Florida’s Notice-of-Intent Trips Up Medicare Recovery Firm in Suits Versus Insurers
Feb 24 2023 // A law firm that has made a multibillion-dollar business out of suing auto and liability insurers for Medicare reimbursement payments may have met its match in Florida’s notice-of-intent-to-sue requirements. A panel...
Gay Couple Wins ‘Landmark’ Health Insurance Case in South Korea
Feb 22 2023 // A gay couple won a lawsuit in South Korea granting them spousal coverage from the national health insurance program, an apparent first in the country that only legally recognizes marriage as between heterosexual...
The History of Health Insurance: Past, Present, and Future
Jan 25 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Health insurance (officially called “accident or health and sickness”) is one of the major, or general, lines of authority (LOAs) defined by the National...
Appeals Court Punts on Whether NC Guaranty Fund is Bound by Medicare Payer Act
Dec 19 2022 // The question of whether a state guaranty fund, which assumed outstanding claims for insolvent insurers, is considered a primary payer and owes money to Medicare, will have to wait for another day to be answered – for a...
COVID Infections Boost Heart-Related Deaths, Top Africa Health Insurer Says
Dec 7 2022 // Africa’s biggest health insurer said the number of heart-related deaths rose more than sixfold during the COVID-19 pandemic among the clients of one of its units. Discovery Employee Benefits, a unit of...
Abortions, Drug Use Exposed in Cyber Attack on Australian Health Insurer Medibank
Nov 14 2022 // When the Australian health insurer Medibank Private Ltd. was hit with a ransomware attack last month, it provided regular updates to its customers, including the revelation that personal information from nearly 10 million...
Data Stolen From Australian Health Insurer Medibank Posted on Dark Web
Nov 9 2022 // Data stolen from an Australian health insurer, including the names, addresses and birthdates of hundreds of customers, has been posted to a forum on the so-called dark web. The files appear to be a sample of the data that...
Rhode Island Bus Service, Health Insurer Sued Over Data Breach
Oct 27 2022 // Two people whose personal information was compromised in a data breach at Rhode Island’s public bus service that affected about 22,000 people sued the agency and a health insurer this week seeking monetary damages...
Australia’s No. 1 Health Insurer Confirms Massive Data Breach, Theft of Patient Details
Oct 20 2022 // Australia’s biggest health insurer said on Thursday a criminal had apparently stolen customers’ medical information as part of a massive breach of data, fueling concern about a wave of high-profile cyber...
Australian Health Insurer Medibank Reports Cyber Incident
Oct 13 2022 // Australian health insurer Medibank Private said on Thursday it will isolate and remove access to some customer-facing systems as it detected unusual activity on its network. The company said it took “immediate steps...
