Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Democrats Want State to Create Health Insurance Exchange
Mar 6 2015 // Democratic lawmakers in Ohio want the state to consider creating its own health insurance exchange as the U.S. Supreme Court hears a challenge to President Barack Obama’s health care law. People can find health...
High Stakes in Today’s Supreme Court Case on Obamacare Subsidies
Mar 4 2015 // U.S. hospital companies and health insurers face the highest corporate stakes when the Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday to decide the fate of Obamacare’s subsidies that help people buy health coverage. Since...
States Have No Plans If Health Insurance Subsidies End
Feb 27 2015 // Millions of people could lose health insurance subsidies in the coming months if the Supreme Court sides with opponents of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. And one thing was clear last weekend as the...
Emerging Markets Private Health Premiums to Double: Swiss Re Report
Feb 25 2015 // In a new sigma report, the first for 2015 Swiss Re concludes that “demand and expectations for better healthcare services are rising in the emerging markets,” and that as a result it expects “premiums for...
U.S. Sends Wrong Health Tax Information
Feb 23 2015 // The U.S. said it sent 800,000 Americans incorrect information that may affect how much they owe in taxes this year because of subsidies they got to help pay for health insurance under Obamacare. People affected by the...
What Will States Do If Court Kills Health Insurance Subsidies?
Feb 19 2015 // Five Republican state governors say they will not rescue a crucial part of Obamacare if it is struck down by the Supreme Court, underlining the prospect for a chaotic aftermath to a ruling that could force millions of...
Use of Data and Analytics in Workers’ Compensation
Feb 12 2015 // In the workers’ compensation space, not only have claim costs increased because of medical issues, but the landscape has also become much more complex. Along with the elevated incidence of fraud, economic fears, and...
Obama Blasts Firms Using Health Insurance As Excuse to Cut Wages
Feb 11 2015 // U.S. President Barack Obama singled out office supply giant Staples Inc. as undercutting his healthcare reform law and said large corporations should not use the health insurance issue as an excuse for cutting wages, the...
Health Insurer Anthem Hit with Cyber Attack
Feb 5 2015 // Hackers have stolen personal information relating to current and former customers and staff of no. 2 U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc., after breaching an IT system containing data on up to 80 million people, the company...
Health and Wellness Consultant Peter Mangiola Helps Consumers Maximize Health Insurance Benefits
Feb 3 2015 // Health and Wellness Expert Peter Mangiola R.N. MSN Has Launched a New Jersey Consultancy Focused on Helping Consumers Gain Access to the Resources Necessary to Prevent and Treat Health Issues Medford, NJ, February 3, 2015:...
High Infection Rates Lead to Penalties for 11 Kansas Hospitals
Jan 9 2015 // Eleven Kansas hospitals are among more than 700 nationwide that have been penalized for having high rates of infections or patient injuries, leading to a 1 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements since the current...
House Republicans Sue Obama Over Delay in Health Insurance Mandate
Nov 24 2014 // U.S. House Republicans sued President Barack Obama’s administration over implementation of the 2010 healthcare law, saying the president exceeded his authority by delaying part of the program. The complaint filed...
Number of Tennesseans Without Health Insurance at 10-Year Low
Nov 19 2014 // A new University of Tennessee report says the number of uninsured people in Tennessee has hit a 10-year low. The number of people without health insurance shrunk about 25 percent in the first year of the health insurance...
Louisiana Nonprofits: Health Insurance Misinformation a Problem
Nov 18 2014 // Nonprofit groups preparing to help people in Louisiana sign up for insurance under the federal health care law say they have had to battle misinformation and misconceptions about the program as they prepared for the Nov....
Joan Rivers Didn’t Consent to Procedures Performed at Yorkville
Nov 11 2014 // Joan Rivers, the comedian and television personality who died after undergoing a medical procedure in New York, didn’t give permission for all the work done at Yorkville Endoscopy LLC, U.S. regulators said. The...
Under Pressure, Louisiana Lowers Health Insurance Costs for State Workers
Nov 9 2014 // Under pressure from lawmakers and retirees, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration announced it will lessen the impact of upcoming changes for the state worker health insurance program. Increases in out-of-pocket costs...
Louisiana Health Insurance Program to Refund $4.5M to State Workers
Nov 5 2014 // Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration announced that it will refund nearly $4.5 million in increased costs that state employees paid under changes to their health insurance program. The start date of insurance program...
10 Insurance Myths
Nov 3 2014 // Men may be more gullible when it comes to insurance myths than women but even women think a number of popular myths about insurance are true, according to a survey by online insurance seller insure.com. Insure.com said it...
Healthcare Overhaul Boosts Earnings at Insurer WellPoint
Oct 30 2014 // Indianapolis, Ind.-based WellPoint raised its 2014 earnings forecast again and trumped third-quarter expectations as the overhaul of the healthcare system adds millions to the nation’s health insurance rolls, and at...
UnitedHealthcare to Join Alabama Health Insurance Exchange
Oct 28 2014 // Alabama consumers will see more competition when the health insurance marketplace opens next month for its second year. United Healthcare took a cautious approach to the marketplaces the first year and chose not to...
