Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Survey: How Health Insurance Brokers, Navigators Perform Under Obamacare
Aug 12 2015 // Insurance brokers play an important role in helping people obtain non-group health insurance from the health insurance marketplaces established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and tend to serve different people than...
Delaware Opts Against Setting Up State Health Insurance Exchange
Aug 10 2015 // Delaware officials have decided not to develop the state’s own health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act and instead will keep the current federal partnership model. Delaware was granted approval in...
Louisiana Health Insurance Co-op to Shut Down Voluntarily
Aug 3 2015 // A nonprofit cooperative formed to provide health insurance in Louisiana is on the way to shutting down. Louisiana Health Cooperative said it will honor all in-force policies for its approximately 17,000 policyholders. It...
South Florida a Haven for All Types of Fraud
Jul 31 2015 // Need a phony ID? A fraudulent tax refund? Insurance money from a sham car crash? Florida may have just what you’re looking for. Since the first settlers hacked their way into the mangrove tangles and drained much of...
Hospitals, Drugmakers Could Follow Health Insurer Mergers
Jul 28 2015 // Anthem Inc’s decision to buy Cigna Corp., forming the largest U.S. health insurer by membership, will likely speed consolidation across the healthcare industry, from hospitals to drugmakers. Anthem announced its...
Louisiana Health Insurance Co-op to Shut Down Voluntarily
Jul 27 2015 // A nonprofit cooperative formed to provide health insurance in Louisiana is on the way to shutting down. Louisiana Health Cooperative said it will honor all in-force policies for the approximately 17,000 individuals that...
Anthem to Buy Cigna, Creating Largest U.S. Health Insurer by Membership
Jul 24 2015 // Anthem Inc. said on Friday it would buy Cigna Corp in a deal valued at $54.2 billion, creating the largest U.S. health insurer by membership. The deal – the biggest ever in the health insurance industry – comes...
Supreme Court Opinion to Have No Effect on Health Insurers: S&P
Jul 6 2015 // The Supreme Court opinion upholding current tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will not have any impact on rated U.S. not-for-profit and for-profit health insurance firms because it continues the current...
Regulatory Review of Aetna’s Humana Deal Could Affect Other Insurer Deals
Jul 5 2015 // Aetna Inc.’s $37 billion deal to buy smaller health insurer Humana Inc. will face rigorous scrutiny from U.S. regulators, which antitrust experts said could also make other large-scale mergers in the sector more...
Affordable Care Act Attracting Younger, Healthier Insureds
Jul 1 2015 // Obamacare is attracting younger and healthier people to its coverage plans this year, according to research by Express Scripts Holding Co., a trend that could help balance and sustain the law’s insurance...
Obamacare Tax Subsidy Recipients in Northeast Express Relief
Jun 26 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the tax subsidies for health insureds across the country including those in states without their own health exchanges that use the federal health insurance exchange. The following...
Supreme Court Opinion To Have No Effect on Health Insurers: S&P
Jun 25 2015 // Today’s Supreme Court opinion upholding current tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will not have any impact on rated U.S. not-for-profit and for-profit health insurance firms since it continues the...
Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare Tax Subsidies
Jun 25 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the tax subsidies for health insureds across the country including those in states without their own health exchanges that use the federal health insurance exchange. In a 6-3 opinion...
Democrats Vow One Sentence Fix If Court Ends Obamacare Subsidies
Jun 24 2015 // Democrats are prepared to quickly come up with a legislative solution should the U.S. Supreme Court rule in the next few days to invalidate a central part of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, party...
Miami Home Health Company Settles Medicare Fraud Scam for $17M
Jun 19 2015 // A Miami home health company has agreed to pay $17 million for allegedly paying doctors to refer Medicare patients. Department of Justice officials said the settlement with Hebrew Homes Health Network Inc. is the largest...
Wisconsin-Based Assurant Health Exiting Health Insurance Business
Jun 11 2015 // The parent company of Milwaukee, Wis.-based Assurant Health says it has reached agreement to sell some business lines and assets to National General Holdings Corp. as it exits the health insurance market. Time Insurance...
Assurant Finds Buyer for Health Insurance Business: National General
Jun 11 2015 // Assurant Inc. has officially decided it will exit the health insurance market to focus instead on its housing and lifestyle specialty protection products. The firm has reached an agreement to sell its Assurant Health...
Growth Business: Helping Insurers Recoup Personal Injury Medical Costs
Jun 11 2015 // George Rawlings grabs a stack of computer printouts and stretches them six feet across his office, admiring data from police reports of Florida auto accidents: the names of those hurt and the severity of their...
Health Insurers Ask Pennsylvania Regulators for Big Rate Hikes
Jun 10 2015 // A national upswing of health insurance rates is coming to Pennsylvania, and that could mean bigger-than-expected cost increases next year for at least a couple hundred thousand Pennsylvanians who bought insurance in the...
President Obama ‘Optimistic’ Court Will Uphold Health Insurance Subsidies
Jun 9 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court probably shouldn’t have accepted a lawsuit challenging Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies, President Barack Obama said, calling it an “easy case.” “Frankly it...
