Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Health Insurance Broker in N.J. Admits Pocketing Nearly $1M
May 16 2014 // Federal prosecutors say an insurance broker has admitted stealing nearly $1 million while selling health care coverage he knew was fake. Seventy-year-old David Clark of Morristown, N.J., pleaded guilty Wednesday to...
Changes in Indiana Workers’ Comp Aimed at Slowing Rise in Medical Costs
May 13 2014 // As in other states with no restrictions on pricing in the workers’ compensation system, medical costs per claim are high and are rising in Indiana, according to a recent study by the Workers’ Compensation...
Changes in Indiana Workers’ Comp System Aimed at Slowing Rise in Medical Costs per Claim
May 5 2014 // New Fee Schedule for Hospitals Goes Into Effect July 1 Like other states with no restrictions on pricing in the workers’ compensation system, medical costs per claim are high and are rising in Indiana, according to a...
10 Challenges Ahead for Workers’ Compensation
May 5 2014 // Today’s challenges are also tomorrow’s opportunities depending on the viewpoint. Those same opportunities could also remain tomorrow’s challenges. This special report highlights 10 current workers’...
Nonprofit in Maryland Builds Different Kind of Health Insurance Company
Apr 29 2014 // Maryland hadn’t had a health insurance co-op for 20 years. Then Dr. Peter Beilenson came along. Although Beilenson — who has held a number of prominent health positions — describes himself as a staunch...
Minnesota’s PreferredOne Grabs Big Share of State Health Insurance Exchange
Apr 29 2014 // A Minnesota health insurance company didn’t expect to offer some of the nation’s lowest premiums – it just turned out that way for PreferredOne. PreferredOne had been just a small player in...
N.J. Resident Charged With Submitting Fraudulent Invoices to Health Insurer
Apr 28 2014 // A Monmouth County, New Jersey, woman has been indicted for allegedly submitting more than $500,000 in bogus invoices to her health insurance company. A state grand jury indictment alleges that from March 2011 and March...
Legislative Auditor to Review Minnesota’s Health Insurance Exchange
Apr 11 2014 // Minnesota’s legislative auditor said he plans to conduct a thorough, independent review of the troubled launch of Minnesota’s health insurance exchange. “The evaluation will be a comprehensive, in-depth...
Minnesota Governor Lashes Out at GOP Critics of Health Insurance Exchange
Apr 10 2014 // Gov. Mark Dayton lashed out at critics of Minnesota’s health insurance exchange, accusing them of waging a propaganda campaign to destroy it. The Democratic governor spoke to reporters a day after GOP members of the...
Mass. Health Insurer Cuts Narcotic Prescriptions to Combat Abuse
Apr 10 2014 // The largest health insurer in Massachusetts has cut prescriptions of narcotic painkillers by an estimated 6.6 million pills in 18 months as part of a campaign to curb abuse. The decline in prescribed opiates including...
Oklahoma to Allow ACA Non-Compliant Health Insurance Policies
Apr 7 2014 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak announced that health insurers may continue to renew policies not meeting Affordable Care Act requirements through 2016. The announcement came after the federal government released...
Republican Bill Targets ‘Bailout’ of Health Insurers
Apr 2 2014 // U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, a prominent Republican critic of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, unveiled legislation on Tuesday to make sure Obamacare would not add to the deficit by compensating insurance...
Obamacare Reaches Enrollment Milestone But Faces Obstacles Ahead
Mar 31 2014 // President Barack Obama’s embattled U.S. healthcare law, having survived a rollout marred by technology failures, reaches a milestone on Monday with the end of its first enrollment wave, and with the administration...
Oklahoma to Allow ACA Non-Compliant Health Insurance Policies
Mar 24 2014 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak announced that health insurers may continue to renew policies not meeting Affordable Care Act requirements through 2016. The announcement came after the federal government released...
Survey: Who’s Worth What in the Independent Agency System?
Mar 21 2014 // For the second year in row, salaries and total compensation rose in independent insurance agencies across the nation. That’s according to Insurance Journal’s annual Agency Salary Survey 2014. This year all...
Illinois Targets 18- to 34-Year-Olds With Humorous Health Insurance Ads
Mar 19 2014 // Illinois officials hope that using humor can give the state’s health insurance enrollment numbers the same kind of bump that the federal site saw after President Barack Obama bantered about the law with actor Zach...
How Is Obamacare Affecting Competition Among Health Insurers?
Mar 18 2014 // A snapshot of Obamacare enrollment in seven states suggests the law hasn’t significantly increased competition in health insurance markets, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported. In California, for example, four big...
Many Could Escape Obamacare Individual Mandate Due to Exemptions
Mar 14 2014 // Obamacare’s requirement that all Americans carry insurance or face penalties, part of the effort to gain universal coverage, may not be much of a rule at all. Millions of people may be exempt from the requirement...
Workers’ Comp Needs to Catch Up with Healthcare Changes: Economist Gruber
Mar 12 2014 // Workers’ compensation must align itself with the rest of the changing healthcare system to avoid increased cost-shifting by workers and medical providers, according to an economist involved in the Massachusetts and...
Louisiana Health Insurers OK Third-Party Payers Through Nov. 15
Mar 12 2014 // The three major companies in Louisiana offering coverage through the federal insurance exchange have agreed to continue to accept premium payments through Nov. 15 from a program that helps HIV/AIDS patients cover their...
