Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Clarifying ‘Election of Remedies’ in Workers’ Comp Claims
Mar 24 2003 // In a flurry of recent cases, Texas courts have tried to clarify various issues regarding election of remedies in the context of workers’ compensation insurance. These issues arise in various circumstances. Two...
NYSID Announces Arrest of Schenectady Father for Using Son’s Health Insurance Benefits
Mar 19 2003 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory V. Serio announced the arrest of Jonathan S. Isdell, Sr., 46, of Schenectady, New York, for fraudulently using his son’s medical benefits identification...
Time to Jump on the Employee Benefits Bandwagon’
Feb 24 2003 // In some respects, the world of employee benefits seems to be on a roll. The Indepen-dent Insurance Agents & Brokers Association (IIABA) reports that about 26 percent of the U.S. agencies examined in its “2002...
Time to Jump on the Employee Benefits Bandwagon’
Feb 24 2003 // In some respects, the world of employee benefits seems to be on a roll. The Indepen-dent Insurance Agents & Brokers Association (IIABA) reports that about 26 percent of the U.S. agencies examined in its “2002...
Fla. Business Associations Demand a Fix for Medical Liability Problems
Feb 20 2003 // Florida’s top business associations demanded that state legislators fix the broken medical liability system, saying it is one of the key reasons healthcare costs are skyrocketing for employers and workers. According...
N.Y. Sues Unlicensed Health Insurer
Feb 13 2003 // Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and New York State Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio filed a lawsuit against an Albany health plan for reportedly operating without a license. The lawsuit alleges that the Millennium...
Calif. Commissioner Delivers Inaugural Speech
Jan 8 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi recently delivered his inaugural speech on Jan. 6, 2003, as he took the Oath of Office in a ceremony at the Assembly Chambers California Capitol Building. The following is the...
Capital BlueCross Against Proposed Pa. Health Insurance Tax
Jan 6 2003 // Capital BlueCross President and CEO James Mead issued a statement supporting Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Ed Rendell’s proposed health insurance reserve tax to help alleviate the state’s medical malpractice...
WCRI Says Wide Variations in State Workers’ Comp Medical Fee Schedules Unrelated to Provider Costs
Dec 20 2002 // The substantial variation in workers’ compensation medical fee schedules among the states is not related to the different costs health care providers incur delivering medical services to injured workers, according to...
Florida Nursing Homes Jump on Quality Improvement Program
Dec 4 2002 // Florida Medical Quality Assurance Inc. reports that Florida nursing homes are not wasting time getting involved with the recently launched Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI) spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Health...
A.M. Best Reports Med-Mal Crisis Adding to Health Insurer Woes
Oct 30 2002 // Rising medical-malpractice insurance premiums for doctors and hospitals are adding to already budget-busting medical-cost inflation, according to the special report, “The Impact of the Med-Mal Insurance Crisis on...
Animal Health Insurer Hartville Group Goes Public
Oct 11 2002 // The Hartville Group, Inc., based in North Canton, Ohio announced that it became a full reporting public company on September 12, 2002. The company’s announcment explained that “On that date Hartville...
EBRI Study Explores Employers’ Views on Health Insurance
Oct 3 2002 // America’s 6 million employers largely determine the number of insured – and uninsured – Americans, and new research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) examines how and why employers make...
Calif. Health Insurer to Be Terminated Dec. 31
Sep 26 2002 // Some 165,000 patients of a Silicon Valley health insurer will be searching for new medical insurance in the coming months as the company is being shut down Dec. 31, according to an Associated Press report. Lifeguard Inc.,...
N.Y. Gov. Pataki Signs Sole Proprietor Health Bill into Law
Sep 23 2002 // New York Governor George Pataki signed into law a bill that will make more affordable health insurance available to small businesses run across New York State that are owned and operated by single-person businesses. The...
Expanding the Pie
Sep 16 2002 // We have all heard the old adage that to succeed we need to do one thing and do it well. That might be one formula for success, but it is not the only one. There are two main types of growth—vertical and horizontal....
Expanding the Pie
Sep 16 2002 // We have all heard the old adage that to succeed we need to do one thing and do it well. That might be one formula for success, but it is not the only one. There are two main types of growth—vertical and horizontal....
Conning Study Reveals Hidden Crisis in Health Insurance
Aug 22 2002 // A new study from Conning Research & Consulting, Inc. of state health insurance regulation has revealed a hidden crisis adding to the cost of health insurance and increasing the number of uninsured...
Reynolds Urges Insurers to Get Active in Workers’ Comp Litigation Issues
Aug 5 2002 // Calling the medical fee guideline the most important element of the workers’ compensation legislation passed by the 77th Texas Legislature—House Bill 2600—Richard F. (Dick) Reynolds, executive director of the...
External Review of Medical Claims by P/C Insurers Could Raise Premiums
Oct 16 2001 // Requiring property/casualty insurers to have medical treatment claims reviewed by third party examiners is unnecessary, counterproductive and could raise the cost of insurance for Iowa consumers, according to the...
