Anthem News

Indiana-Based Insurer WellPoint to Change Name to Anthem

WellPoint, one of the biggest players on the health care overhaul’s new insurance exchanges, wants to switch its corporate name back to the Anthem brand its customers know by the end of this year. The nation’s second-largest health insurer said …

Kentucky Recommends Anthem Health Plan as Benchmark for Insurers

Kentucky has recommended that the Anthem Preferred Provider Organization serve as the benchmark plan for insurers in Kentucky under federal health care reforms. Anthem’s offerings would be the minimum level of benefits provided for individual and small group coverage under …

WellPoint to Settle Class Action Over Anthem Demutualization for $90 Million

Health insurer WellPoint Inc. has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a class-action lawsuit against its Anthem unit over accusations the company did not fairly compensate former members when Anthem was converted from a mutual company into a stock …

Health Insurer Anthem Loses Appeal to Maine Supreme Court

The Maine supreme court has rejected health insurer Anthem’s claim that it has a right to a 3-percent profit and risk margin when setting individual health insurance premiums. Maine’s insurance superintendent reduced the margin to 1 percent, and the state …