Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Pennsylvania’s Altman Named to Leadership Position on Health Insurance with NAIC
Feb 5 2018 // Acting Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman will serve as vice chair of the Health Insurance and Managed Care Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the organization reported...
Pennsylvania’s Altman Named to Leadership Position on Health Insurance with NAIC
Jan 22 2018 // Acting Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman will serve as vice chair of the Health Insurance and Managed Care Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the organization reported...
Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Rose by 3 Million in 2017: Gallup
Jan 17 2018 // The number of Americans without healthcare insurance rose by 3.2 million people between 2016 and 2017, or 1.3 percentage points to 12.2 percent, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday, the biggest jump in the...
Trump Rule Permits Health Plans by Self-Employed, Small Businesses That Skirt Obamacare
Jan 5 2018 // The Trump administration on Thursday proposed a rule to allow Americans who are self-employed or work for small businesses to buy health insurance that does not comply with all Obamacare requirements in an effort to unwind...
Obamacare Enrollment Down Only 4% Despite GOP Sabotage Campaign
Dec 27 2017 // Slightly fewer Americans have enrolled for insurance through the federal Obamacare marketplace compared to a year ago, the government said on Thursday, but the number was higher than expected in light of steps taken by...
California Division of Workers’ Comp Suspends 16 Medical Providers
Dec 22 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended 16 more medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system, bringing the total number of providers suspended this year...
Congress OKs Stop-Gap Funding to Avoid Government Shutdown
Dec 21 2017 // The Senate gave final approval Thursday night to a short-term extension of federal funding to keep the government running for three more weeks while shoving a raft of fiscal and policy fights into the new year. The...
6 Industry Trends to Exploit for 2018
Dec 18 2017 // To prepare for the future, business owners need to observe what trends are occurring and then evaluate how those trends could impact their business. It is a guessing game, but an educated guess is usually proven to be...
What to Know About the Senior Care Market
Dec 13 2017 // The aging U.S. population will create unprecedented demand for the senior living industry for decades to come and that opens the door for agents and brokers to grow their business in this sector. But understanding the...
6 Health Insurance Terms That You Need to Understand
Dec 13 2017 // Last week, we looked at some ways that health insurance isn’t like any other kind of insurance. If you missed it, may I commend it to you? 5 Reasons Health Insurance Isn’t Like Anything Else This week,...
Growth in U.S. Healthcare Spending Slowed in 2016: CMS
Dec 7 2017 // In 2016, overall growth in national spending on healthcare slowed in 2016, increasing 4.3 percent following 5.8 percent growth in 2015, according to a report by actuaries with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
5 Reasons Health Insurance Isn’t Like Anything Else
Dec 6 2017 // This is the time of year when health insurance comes into focus for a lot of people. Open enrollment periods have just closed for many of us so it seems like a good time to write a little bit about health insurance....
California Division of Workers’ Comp Suspends 21 Medical Providers for Fraud
Dec 5 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended 21 more medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ compensation system, bringing the total number of providers suspended...
The Competitive Advantage: Who Needs Insurance?
Dec 4 2017 // Who needs insurance? Not the perfect risk, other than for contractual and legal reasons. The perfect risk has absolutely no chance, not even remotely, of incurring a loss. If an account has almost no probability of...
CVS to Pay $67.5B for Aetna to Create Giant Health Firm with ‘10,000 New Front Doors’
Dec 3 2017 // CVS Health Corp. will buy Aetna Inc. for about $67.5 billion, creating a healthcare giant that will have a hand in everything from insurance to the corner drugstore. CVS will pay $207 a share for Aetna, with $145 a share...
California Workers’ Comp Department Suspends 9 Medical Providers for Fraud
Nov 22 2017 // The Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended nine more medical providers from participating in California’s workers’ compensation system, bringing the total number of providers suspended this year...
The Senior Care Market Still Going Strong
Nov 20 2017 // The aging U.S. population will create unprecedented demand for the senior living industry for decades to come and that opens the door for agents and brokers to grow their business in this sector. But understanding the...
Auto Insurance Reform Bill Goes Down in Michigan House
Nov 20 2017 // A bill to reduce auto insurance premiums was defeated late on Nov. 2 by the Michigan House, another blow for longstanding efforts to rein in medical costs contributing to the highest average rates in the country. After...
California Workers’ Comp Division Suspends 12 Medical Providers for Fraud
Nov 15 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended 12 more medical providers from participating in California’s workers’ comp system, bringing the total number of providers suspended this year...
California Workers’ Comp Division Suspends 21 Medical Providers for Fraud
Nov 8 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended 21 more medical providers from participating in California’s workers’ comp system, bringing the total number of providers suspended this year...
