Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Study: Most Believe Health Insurance Problematic
Nov 16 2006 // Most Americans think there is something wrong about the state of U.S. health insurance, but they disagree on what to do about it. A study released Tuesday by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of...
N.Y. City Sues to Block Major Health Insurance Merger
Nov 15 2006 // New York City officials are trying to stop a major health-insurance merger, saying it would create a near-monopoly. New York City filed court papers Monday to prevent the region’s biggest nonprofit insurers — GHI...
Health Insurers Offer $300 Billion Plan for Covering Uninsured
Nov 15 2006 // Health insurance companies proposed a national $300 billion plan this week aimed at getting coverage for all uninsured children in three years and for most adults within 10. The plan includes tax breaks for the working...
N.Y. City Loses Quick Bid to Block Health Insurers’ Merger
Nov 15 2006 // A judge on Tuesday refused a request by New York City officials to immediately stop the merger of two nonprofit insurance companies that provide coverage to city workers because it violates antitrust laws. U.S. District...
Ohio Medical Mutual Investigator Wins National Fraud-fighting Award
Nov 13 2006 // Financial Investigator Jeff Leovic, a member of Medical Mutual of Ohio’s Financial Investigations unit, is among the winners of the 2006 National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association’s (NHCAA) Investigation of...
N.Y. Fines 21 Health Plans For Prompt Pay Violations
Nov 10 2006 // The New York State Insurance Department has levied fines totaling $310,300 against 21 health insurers and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) for violations of New York’s Prompt Pay Law. The violations and...
Group Sues in Conn. to Halt Sale of Limited Aetna Health Policy
Oct 26 2006 // A consumer advocacy group filed a lawsuit this week against health insurer Aetna Inc., one of its subsidiaries and the Connecticut Department of Insurance, hoping to stop the sale of new health insurance plans it claims...
Wis. Company Uncovers Health Insurance Scam Involving Military
Oct 20 2006 // A Philippines-based company and its president allegedly scammed a Department of Defense health insurance program out of more than $900,000, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday. Thomas Arthur Lutz and the company...
Health Insurance Program for Small Businesses in Okla. to Expand
Oct 16 2006 // New rules expanding a program to help small businesses in Oklahoma provide health insurance for their employees are now in effect. Gov. Brad Henry announced Oct. 13 that he had signed Oklahoma Health Care Authority rules...
Okla. Doctor Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Medicare, Private Insurers
Oct 12 2006 // An Alva, Okla., doctor faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty to defrauding Medicare out of $1 million. Gregory Glase Pinegar also will forfeit more than $400,000 as part of his plea...
Mass. Begins Historic Mandatory Health Insurance Plan
Oct 3 2006 // Massachusetts began signing up its poorest residents for low-cost health insurance , the first step in the state’s goal to be the first in America to require all citizens to have health insurance. “This is a...
N.Y. Sees Rise in Number of Health Insureds
Sep 29 2006 // New York was the only state to see a significant drop in its number of uninsured people even as their ranks grew nationally, a new report finds. The report by the union-backed Fiscal Policy Institute found the percent of...
The Commissioners
Sep 25 2006 // Hawaii:Perfectly poised for insurers in the Pacific Rim Although it is undeniably one of the 50 United States, Hawaii’s location at the edge of the Pacific Rim yields creative business opportunities throughout the...
Steven M. Goldman, New Jersey, Commissioner of Banking and Insurance
Sep 25 2006 // Steven M. Goldman was sworn in as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance on March 20, 2006, after the Senate Judiciary Committee and full Senate unanimously approved his appointment. Prior to...
J.P. Schmidt, Hawaii, Insurance Commissioner
Sep 25 2006 // Although it is undeniably one of the 50 United States, Hawaii’s location at the edge of the Pacific Rim yields creative business opportunities throughout the world. The state’s captive insurer law already has...
Nationwide Health Insurance to Cut 350 Jobs in Ohio, Calif.
Sep 14 2006 // Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Health Plans, an affiliate of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. that provides health insurance in Ohio and California, will begin cutting about 350 jobs next year, a spokesman for the larger...
Millions of Young Adult Risk-Takers Uncovered
Sep 8 2006 // As Colorado’s snowboarding season approaches, so does the time of year when Katie Neal’s mom really freaks out. What bothers her mom, Neal said, is not the speed at which the 26-year-old slashes through...
Mass. Board Sets Lower Income Residents’ Health Insurance Fee
Sep 5 2006 // Lower income single adults will pay between $18 and $106 a month for health care under a plan approved by the board drafting regulations for the state’s new health care law. The Commonwealth Health Insurance...
Candidates for Ohio Governor Push Health Care Reforms
Sep 5 2006 // The two major candidates for governor want to embark Ohio on experiments that would expand health care coverage for the uninsured, including enrolling the poor in low-cost group purchasing plans. With an estimated 46.6...
James J. Donelon, Louisiana, Commissioner of Insurance
Sep 4 2006 // With his state still in recovery mode after last year’s Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon is arguably one of the busiest state insurance regulators in the U.S. While...
