Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Health Insurers Seek Big Premium Increases in Pennsylvania
May 31 2016 // Pennsylvania’s insurance regulators are starting a review of health plans for coverage next year through the federal marketplaces, including several that seek premium increases in excess of 40 percent. The...
Ohio Court: Insurance Department May Take Over Health Insurer
May 30 2016 // The state’s insurance department is taking over a company that provides health insurance to nearly 22,000 residents, mainly in central Ohio. The move affects those holding InHealth Mutual policies from Coordinated...
Under Missouri Bill, Insurance Department Would Review ACA Rate Hikes
May 30 2016 // Health insurance companies would no longer be able to raise rates for Affordable Care Act consumers in Missouri without review by a state agency under a measure awaiting the governor’s signature. Advocates say the...
Arkansas Officials Question Health Insurance Rate Hikes for 2017
May 25 2016 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr says he expects to deny several recent requests by insurers to raise rates on individual on-exchange health insurance policies by more than 10 percent for 2017. Under the...
240K Marylanders Missing Out on Health Insurance Help
May 24 2016 // It’s an unusual problem: The more people in rural areas Mark Romaninsky and his team help sign up for health insurance, the more difficult it becomes to find people who still need to enroll. “It gets harder and...
New York Health Insurers Propose Hikes for Individual, Small Group Rates
May 20 2016 // New York health insurers have proposed premium increases averaging 17.3 percent for next year in the market for individuals and 12 percent for small groups. The New York State Department of Financial Services often reduces...
Health Insurers File Proposed Rates for 2017 DC Health Link
May 13 2016 // The District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) said it has received 170 proposed health insurance plan rates for review from four major insurers in advance of the fourth year of open...
Health Insurers Next on Justice Department’s Antitrust Agenda
May 5 2016 // Bill Baer was the ultimate Washington antitrust insider when he came to the Justice Department in 2013: At law firm Arnold & Porter LLP, he’d counseled the biggest U.S. companies, including deal machine General...
Public, Private Insurers Picking Up More of Opioid Drug Costs
May 3 2016 // According to a study released by Centers for Disease Control (CDC), consumer out-of-pocket spending on opioids has declined, with insurers picking up more of the tab. The study found that consumer out-of-pocket spending on...
New York: Health Insurers Must Pay for Maternal Depression Screening
Apr 29 2016 // New York state will soon require health insurers to cover depression screening for pregnant women and new mothers. The move follows a recommendation from a federal panel that insurers cover maternal depression screening...
Arkansas Admits New Life, Accident, Health Insurance Provider
Apr 25 2016 // Atlantic Coast Life Insurance Company (ACL) has been approved to do business in Arkansas, the state insurance department announced. ACL, a South Carolina domestic insurer since 1925, currently offers a variety of life,...
UnitedHealth to Drop Individual Obamacare Plans in Multiple States
Apr 20 2016 // UnitedHealth Group Inc. will drop out of government-organized health insurance markets in at least 16 states as the U.S. industry leader tries to stem losses from participating in Obamacare, the healthcare overhaul that...
New York AG Sues Health Insurer Over Hepatitis C Treatment
Apr 19 2016 // New York’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against an Albany-area health insurer that he says broke the law by denying coverage for expensive hepatitis C treatments until patients showed advanced symptoms of the...
Why Employers Are Sending Retirees to Exchanges for Health Insurance
Apr 18 2016 // Planning for retirement is tough enough – and it gets even tougher when retirement benefits you expect to receive from an employer are changed on short notice. But a growing number of U.S. employers are capping their...
N.Y. Extends Health Insurance Enrollment Period for Domestic Violence Victims
Apr 13 2016 // New York is requiring health insurers providing individual coverage through the state health exchange to allow victims of domestic violence or abandonment to enroll at any time. The Department of Financial Services says...
Arkansas Orders Florida Health Plan to Stop Selling in State
Apr 4 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr issued a cease and desist order against Tampa, Fla.-based Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings LLC, dba Health Insurance Innovations (HII), alleging the company is using fraudulent and...
Three Appointed to Texas Life/Health Insurance Guaranty Association Board
Mar 30 2016 // Texas Insurance Commissioner David Mattax has appointed three members to serve on the board of directors of the Texas Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association. The board oversees the association, which helps to...
Arkansas Orders Florida Health Plan to Stop Selling in State
Mar 28 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has issued a cease and desist order against Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings LLC., dba Health Insurance Innovations (HII), a Tampa, Florida-based company, alleging the company has used...
How Much Do U.S. Health Insurance Tax Breaks and Subsidies Cost?
Mar 25 2016 // U.S. taxpayers will fork over $660 billion this year to subsidize health insurance for people under 65, the vast majority of whom have coverage through their employers, the Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday. In...
Health Insurers Working to Improve Provider Network Directories
Mar 24 2016 // Some health insurers are hoping to ease headaches that can flare when customers try to confirm whether a doctor is covered in a plan’s network of providers. The trade association America’s Health Insurance...
