Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Governor Signs Wisconsin Health Insurance Oversight Bill
Dec 21 2015 // Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that gives the Legislature’s budget committee oversight of any contract moving Wisconsin public workers into a self-insurance system. The governor signed the bill privately on Dec....
Ohioans Entitled to More Information Under Health Insurance Rule
Dec 16 2015 // Ohioans will be able to get more information about healthcare provider networks from health insurance companies beginning in 2016. The rule taking effect in January will require insurance companies to update their...
Once Profitable, Maine’s Community Health Option Is Now Losing Millions
Dec 15 2015 // The lone health insurance cooperative to make money last year on the Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges is now losing millions and suspending individual enrollment for 2016. Maine’s Community...
Obamacare Turns to Start-Ups to Boost Enrollment in Marketplaces
Dec 8 2015 // Two health-care startups will work with the White House to boost the number of Americans who obtain insurance through marketplaces created under Obamacare. ZocDoc Inc. and Oscar Health Insurance Corp. are providing free...
Health Insurers to Rebate More Than $2M to Delaware Consumers
Dec 7 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that insurers will issue more than $2 million in rebates to 14,399 health insurance policyholders in Delaware as a result of the Affordable Care Act’s...
Mass. AG Announces $209K Settlement With American Fidelity Assurance
Dec 4 2015 // American Fidelity Assurance Company (AFA), a life and health insurance company based in Oklahoma City, has agreed to pay $209,000 to settle allegations that it failed to cover mandated benefits required by state law and...
Arkansas Gov. Replaces Health Insurance Exchanges Board Members
Dec 3 2015 // Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has replaced the chairman and one other member of a state board that establishes health insurance exchanges for small-business employees and individual consumers. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette...
N.H. to Examine Health Insurers’ Substance Abuse Treatment Coverage
Dec 1 2015 // New Hampshire’s Insurance Department is examining whether insurance companies are appropriately covering substance abuse services as required by law. The probe comes as New Hampshire seeks to expand treatment and...
Health Insurers in Arkansas Owed More than $7.1M in Rebates for 2014
Nov 23 2015 // Arkansas consumers and businesses are owed more than $7.1 million from health insurers because those companies collected too much in premiums last year than what they spent on medical care, according to federal...
Avera Health Buying Health Insurer, DAKOTACARE
Nov 20 2015 // Regional health system Avera Health is buying the DAKOTACARE health insurance company, creating what it says will be the second-largest health insurer in South Dakota. The two Sioux Falls-based companies announced their...
How Long Will Health Insurers Remain Patient with Obamacare?
Nov 20 2015 // The fate of Barack Obama’s signature health- care law may depend on how long Anthem Inc. and Aetna Inc. are willing to wait before starting to make money off it. The two insurers are on the hot seat now that...
Consumer Groups, Unions Form Coalition to Oppose Health Insurer Mergers
Nov 16 2015 // Two U.S. consumer groups announced the formation of a coalition with New York labor unions last week to press antitrust regulators to oppose big insurance mergers that would cut the number of nationwide for-profit health...
Michigan’s Consumers Mutual to Exit Health Insurance Market
Nov 16 2015 // Consumers Mutual Co-Op, in consultation with the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS), has decided to enter into a run off of its health insurance business, the DIFS announced. Consumers Mutual...
Doctors Seek to Block 2 Health Insurance Mergers
Nov 11 2015 // The American Medical Association asked U.S. antitrust regulators to block two proposed mergers that could reshape the health insurance industry. Anthem Inc. shouldn’t be permitted to buy Cigna Corp. and Aetna Inc....
Michigan’s Consumers Mutual to Exit Health Insurance Market
Nov 6 2015 // Consumers Mutual Co-Op, in consultation with the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS), has decided to enter into a run off of its health insurance business, the DIFS announced. Consumers Mutual...
Michigan-Based Health Insurers to Merge
Nov 4 2015 // Two companies are planning a merger to become one of the largest health insurers in Michigan. Flint-based HealthPlus of Michigan and Detroit-based Health Alliance Plan announced Nov. 2 that they have reached an agreement...
Big Health Insurers Still View Obamacare as Big Opportunity
Nov 2 2015 // Slipping enrollment and struggling competitors have done little to shake the faith that the nation’s biggest health insurers have placed in the Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges. Aetna executives...
Cost of Oklahoma Health Plans Skyrocketing
Oct 29 2015 // Thousands of Oklahoma residents who are expected to participate in the open enrollment period under the federal Affordable Care Act that begins this weekend can expect some dramatic increases in the cost of health...
Carriers Returning to Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace
Oct 22 2015 // Illinois consumers shopping for health insurance for 2016 will see familiar companies, newcomers and health plans with narrow networks when the marketplace opens in less than two weeks. The Illinois Department of Insurance...
Fine for Not Having Health Insurance Is Going Up
Oct 22 2015 // The math is harsh: The federal penalty for having no health insurance is set to jump to $695, and the Obama administration is being urged to highlight that cold fact in its new pitch for health law sign-ups. That means the...
