Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Congressional Budget Office Warns of ‘Potentially Disruptive’ Move to ‘Medicare for All’
May 3 2019 // Congressional budget experts said this week that moving to a government-run health care system like “Medicare for All” could be complicated and potentially disruptive for Americans. The report from the...
Minnesota AG: For-Profit Health Insurers Could Raid State’s Reserves
Apr 25 2019 // Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has called on lawmakers to reverse a consequence of 2017 law that repealed the state’s ban on for-profit health maintenance organizations, saying for-profit companies could...
North Dakota Governor Signs Health Reinsurance Bill
Apr 22 2019 // North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a bill that allows for establishing a reinsurance pool for the individual health insurance market in that state. House Bill 1106, backed by the North Dakota Department of Insurance,...
States Warn of DNA Testing Fraudsters Stealing Personal Information
Apr 18 2019 // Authorities in several states are warning about an alleged scam in which people visit senior-living communities and low-income neighborhoods, offering to perform DNA tests and collecting information from people in...
Sutter Health in California Settling Medicare Allegations for $30M
Apr 16 2019 // A Northern California health care provider has agreed to pay $30 million to settle allegations that it overcharged the federal government for Medicare patient reimbursements. Sutter Health didn’t acknowledge any...
Ant Financial Aims to Disrupt Health Insurance with New Chinese Health ‘Collective’
Apr 11 2019 // Billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Financial has done more than perhaps any company to disrupt China’s gargantuan banking and asset-management industries. Now it’s trying to re-imagine health...
Florida Pharmacist Convicted in $100M Pharmacy Fraud Scheme
Apr 2 2019 // A Florida pharmacist was sentenced last month to 120 months in prison followed by three years supervised release for his role in a massive compounding pharmacy fraud scheme, which impacted private insurance companies,...
Insurance Department Takes Over Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace
Mar 19 2019 // The Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace has become part of the state’s insurance department after Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed legislation dissolving the marketplace board as a separate entity. The state Legislature...
North Dakota Insurance Department Appeals Court Ruling on Air Ambulance Balance Bills
Mar 4 2019 // The North Dakota Insurance Department has appealed a ruling from a U.S. District Court invalidating a law protecting individuals with health insurance from receiving large and unexpected balance bills to the 8th Circuit...
Lawmakers Cite Own Experiences in Grilling Drug Executives on Prices
Mar 1 2019 // Channeling the ire of constituents and drawing from personal experience, senators chastised drug company executives Tuesday over the high cost of prescription medications, while the CEOs warned that government price...
Anthem, Cigna in Court Battles Over Failed Merger
Feb 25 2019 // There’s no dispute that a $48.9 billion merger announced in 2015 between health insurers Anthem Inc. and Cigna Corp. imploded two years later over antitrust concerns. Now, the question is whether one owes the other...
Bill Creating North Dakota Health Reinsurance Pool Advances
Feb 22 2019 // Proposed legislation in North Dakota that would establish invisible reinsurance pool for the individual health insurance market, unanimously passed the North Dakota House of Representatives, the state insurance department...
North Dakota Insurance Regulator Appeals Court Ruling on Air Ambulance Balance Bills
Feb 21 2019 // The North Dakota Insurance Department has appealed a ruling from a U.S. District Court invalidating a law protecting individuals with health insurance from receiving large and unexpected balance bills to the 8th Circuit...
Munich Re’s India Partner Weighs Selling Health Insurer Stake: Sources
Feb 13 2019 // Prathap C. Reddy and his family, founders of India’s Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd., plan to sell their holdings in an insurance venture with Munich Re AG to repay debt, people with knowledge of the matter...
Former Top AIG Executive Sankaran Joins Health Insurtech Oscar as CFO
Feb 6 2019 // Technology-driven health plan Oscar has named former American International Group executive Sid Sankaran as its new chief financial officer. Sankaran, who will join Oscar on March 1, was named chief financial officer at...
Trump Plan to Curb Drug Prices Targets Rebates to Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Feb 1 2019 // The Trump administration proposed ending a complex system of drug rebates that influence tens of billions of dollars in U.S. pharmaceutical spending, a move that could upend the relationship between drugmakers and pharmacy...
Anbang Insurance Assets for Sale Include Manhattan Building, Health Insurer, Hotels
Jan 25 2019 // Anbang Insurance Group Co., which symbolized the era of mega-acquisitive Chinese companies that later had to reverse their buying binges, is continuing to whittle down its empire. The Beijing-based conglomerate is...
Effect of Judge Ruling Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional Delayed for Appeal
Dec 17 2018 // Obamacare was struck down by a Texas federal judge in a ruling that casts uncertainty on insurance coverage for millions of U.S. residents, drawing sharp condemnation from some medical professionals and a vow for action by...
Delle Joins Missouri’s Town and Country Insurance Agency
Nov 16 2018 // Troy, Missouri-based Town and Country Insurance Agency has hired Angie Delle as a Medicare specialist and producer. Delle will handle everything from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) compliance and field...
Health Insurer Aetna Faces $25M Verdict in Oklahoma Coverage Case
Nov 9 2018 // A jury has ordered Aetna to pay more than $25 million to the family of an Oklahoma City woman who died a year after the insurance company refused to cover a type of radiation therapy. Jurors found that Aetna doctors...
