Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Commissioner Hopeful: Assemblyman Dave Jones
Oct 21 2010 // On November 2, Californians will select a new insurance commissioner, charged with regulating the fourth-largest insurance market in the world at about $160 billion. Assemblyman and Democrat Dave Jones recently shared why...
Georgia Insurance Commissioner Race: Top Priorities, State Role, Money
Oct 20 2010 // One candidate to be Georgia ‘s next insurance commissioner thinks the state should build on its risk management schools to become a national leader in alternative risk transfer innovation. Another wants the state to...
California’s Commissioner Hopefuls
Oct 18 2010 // Unlike many voters, the hundreds and thousands of independent insurance agents and brokers in California know the November 2 election will be a pivotal one. After all, on that day, Californians will select a new insurance...
Texas Agents Join Forces to Launch Health Insurance Coalition
Oct 15 2010 // Three insurance producer groups have joined forces to form the Texas Coalition of Health Insurance Agents to monitor, respond to and communicate on the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care...
House Report: Denials of Coverage by Large Health Insurers Up 49%
Oct 13 2010 // Coverage denials of individuals based on their medical histories by the nation’s top for-profit health insurance companies rose by nearly half in recent years, U.S. lawmakers said Tuesday. The findings raise...
Midwest States Getting $1M Each for Health Exchanges
Oct 6 2010 // Federal officials say Illinois, Nebraska and the Dakotas will each be getting $1 million to help the states establish a health insurance exchange. The exchanges, created by the federal Affordable Care Act, are meant to be...
Iowa-based Principal Financial to Exit Health Insurance
Oct 1 2010 // Principal Financial Group Inc., an insurance, retirement and financial services company, said it is getting out of the health insurance business. It said the move will eliminate 150 jobs initially and more...
State Regulators Develop Rule on Health Insurers’ Medical Spending
Sep 24 2010 // U.S. health insurers should be able to exclude most federal taxes, but not all, in calculating spending rates to meet new healthcare law requirements, an insurance advisory group has proposed. Under a draft plan released...
Illinois Department of Insurance Highlights Pending Health Reform Changes
Sep 22 2010 // The Illinois Department of Insurance is reminding Illinois families and employers that significant new health insurance benefits and protections become effective Sept. 23, 2010. The changes — a result of the Patient...
Texas Commissioner: Health Insurance Reforms Effective Sept. 23
Sep 21 2010 // The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and related Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, enacted by Congress in March 2010, include significant insurance market reforms effective for most...
U.S. Group Health Premiums Rose 3% in 2009; Individual Up 15%
Sep 17 2010 // U.S. health insurers took in 7 percent more revenue from premiums from individual, group and other policies in 2009 than in the previous year, even as the number of those people with coverage fell, according to a report...
Texas Public/Private Partnership Provides Small Employer Health Coverage
Sep 14 2010 // Healthy Texas, a statewide public/private partnership established by the 81st Legislature, provides a new health insurance option for small employers in Texas, the Texas Department of Insurance announced. Eligible...
Federal Reform Seen Having Moderate Impact on Health Spending
Sep 10 2010 // U.S. health spending is projected to reach nearly $4.6 trillion by 2019, growing at an average annual rate over the next decade of 6.3 percent, according to economists at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
Blue Cross Leads Health Insurers in Florida
Sep 10 2010 // Florida released a report yesterday listing the market share and earnings of accident and health insurers, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc. ranked first in premiums earned, with $3.9 billion in direct...
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Sep 6 2010 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) promoted two key executives. Paul Buffone is now senior vice president of Risk Management Services, and David T. White is now vice president of Internal Audit. Buffone...
Georgia Advised to Apply for Health Insurance Scam Refund
Aug 26 2010 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine said Georgians who purchased a health insurance plan from American Trade Association, Inc. or its affiliates have until August 31, 2010 to request a refund of premium from...
U.S. Gives States Cash to Police Health Insurance Rate Hikes
Aug 17 2010 // A $46 million round of grants will help U.S. states boost oversight of health insurance premium hikes and keep down costs, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday. All but a few states will receive...
North Carolina Health Insurer Cuts Jobs
Aug 16 2010 // North Carolina’s largest health insurer says it plans to lay off about 90 people as part of cost-cutting moves to prepare for the new federal health care law. The News & Observer reports Friday that Blue Cross...
Louisiana Targets Companies Marketing Bogus Health Insurance Plans
Aug 12 2010 // Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Section investigators have served the American Trade Association, its 13 companion companies and 14 personnel with cease and desist orders, for selling unauthorized insurance in...
Florida Doctors Paid to Refer Medicare Patients
Aug 12 2010 // A former southwest Florida hospital executive is accusing a health operator of paying doctors to refer Medicare patients to the company’s hospitals. A lawsuit filed by Michael Mastej claims that Naples-based Health...
