Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
LMC Insurance to Offer Health Insurance Pool for Mid-Size Iowa Firms
Oct 31 2018 // LMC Insurance and Risk Management (LMC Insurance) is launching a new health insurance plan underwritten by Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield for Iowa-based employers with 51-500 eligible employees. The program, referred...
Small Firms’ Access to Low Cost Health Plans Depends on State
Oct 29 2018 // As small business owners shop for 2019 health insurance, some will for the first time have the chance to join forces and buy cheaper insurance – depending on which state they’re in. New rules that began going into...
New Jersey Insurance Broker Stole Nearly $1M While Selling Fake Health Insurance
Oct 26 2018 // An insurance broker who stole nearly $1 million while continuing to sell health care coverage he knew was fake has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. David Clark, 75, of Morristown, N.J., previously pleaded guilty...
BRP Partners with Medicare Division of Trilogy Financial Group of Florida
Oct 24 2018 // Baldwin Risk Partners (BRP), a Tampa, Fla., based insurance distribution holding company, has completed the formation of its partnership with the Medicare Division of Trilogy Financial Group, a financial agency based in...
Land O’Lakes, Gravie to Expand Farmer Health Insurance Plan in Minnesota
Oct 22 2018 // Land O’Lakes Inc. and Gravie will expand their Farmer Health Insurance Plan in next year in Minnesota. When a law was passed in Minnesota last year allowing agricultural co-op members to band together to purchase...
Glen Mulready, Candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner
Oct 18 2018 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Election 2018 The office of the insurance commissioner in Oklahoma is an elected position. The current commissioner, John D. Doak, is term limited and cannot run again; his successor will be...
U.S. Clears Way for CVS Acquisition of Aetna That Promises Consumer Cost Savings
Oct 11 2018 // Pharmacy chain CVS Health Corp. won U.S. antitrust approval for its $69 billion acquisition of health insurer Aetna Inc., the Justice Department said on Wednesday, paving the way for a combination with potential to cut...
Why Hospitals Charge Auto Insurance, Workers’ Compensation Patients Much More Than Health Insurers
Oct 1 2018 // Insurer market power matters in hospital pricing. Patients with automobile, workers’ compensation, and other non-conventional commercial insurance plans paid much higher prices than patients with HMO/PPO health...
Glen Mulready, Republican Candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner
Oct 1 2018 // Glen Mulready has 35 years of experience in the insurance industry and is a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. He previously served as the House insurance committee chair and is now the floor leader...
Cigna Says Express Scripts Acquisition Passes Antitrust Review
Sep 17 2018 // Health insurer Cigna Corp.’s $52 billion acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts Holding Co. has passed U.S. antitrust scrutiny, the companies said on Monday, allowing them to proceed with a...
3 New Insurers OK’d to Do Business in Arkansas
Aug 30 2018 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has approved three new insurance companies to conduct insurance business in that state. Authority was granted to West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. (WBM) of West Bend, Wisconsin, to...
China’s Anbang Weighs Sale of Hexie Health Insurance: Sources
Jul 16 2018 // Anbang Insurance Group Co. is weighing a sale of its Hexie Health Insurance Co. unit as the troubled Chinese firm reviews its assets for possible divestment, according to people familiar with the matter. The insurer is in...
Canadian Health Insurers Reluctant to Provide Cover for Medical Marijuana
Jul 13 2018 // Sun Life Financial, Canada’s No. 2 insurer, recently started covering medical marijuana in its Canadian health insurance plan – more than 17 years after the country first legalized it. The coverage, which requires...
Some Health Insurers Say They’ll Be Squeezed by Obamacare Subsidy Freeze
Jul 9 2018 // Affordable Care Act insurers are facing a fresh round of uncertainty that could drive up premiums or push companies to stop offering coverage through the law, after the Trump administration’s latest move to cut off...
Modi’s Plan to Provide Health Insurance to Half a Billion Indians Hits Serious Hurdles
Jul 5 2018 // Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to provide health insurance to half a billion Indians — a mass of people larger than the entire population of South America — before he seeks a fresh mandate next year...
How Workers’ Compensation Outpatient Costs Compare Across States by Fee Regulation
Jun 29 2018 // Hospital outpatient payments were higher and growing faster in states with percent-of-charge-based fee regulations or no fee schedules, finds a study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) that compares 35...
How Insurance Plans Contribute to Opioid Epidemic: Johns Hopkins Study
Jun 22 2018 // Health care insurers including Medicare, Medicaid and major private insurers have not done enough to combat the opioid epidemic, suggests a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The...
Surgery, Not Pharma, Is Biggest Healthcare Cost Worry: Gawande
Jun 22 2018 // Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon who was named this week to head the company being formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase to trim employee healthcare costs, on Thursday cited surgery as the single biggest U.S....
Health Insurers Propose Lower Premiums for Minnesota Individual Market
Jun 19 2018 // Health insurers in Minnesota’s individual market are proposing mostly decreased premium rates for 2019, with average proposed decreases ranging from 3 percent to more than 12 percent for consumers, according to data...
Vermont to Require That All Have Health Insurance
Jun 18 2018 // Vermont is moving forward with its quest to ensure that as many residents as possible have health insurance by enacting a law that will require all to be covered or be penalized. The law, signed with no fanfare by...
