St. Louis, Mo.-based MRCT, a comprehensive, employee benefits, financial products and human resources consulting firm, announced the launch of SmartBenefits Marketplace. The locally owned and operated private healthcare exchange will offer products and services in Missouri and Southern Illinois. MRCT …
The chief of Minnesota’s health insurance marketplace resigned Dec. 17 after facing criticism over the troubled rollout and a questionably timed international vacation. April Todd-Malmlov submitted her resignation during an emergency closed session of the government board of MNsure, Minnesota’s …
The three main companies offering health insurance plans to Louisiana residents on the federally run online health marketplace have refused to say how many people have been able to sign up for coverage. The marketplace offers health insurance options for …
How much will an Illinois fast food cook pay for insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law? How about a preschool teacher? Or a freelance writer? Price information has been difficult to come by because of technical glitches on …
Michigan’s online premium estimator was used more than 100,000 times in the first week people could shop in an insurance marketplace formed under the federal health care law. The state Department of Insurance and Financial Services said that 23,000 unique …
A federal contractor said it will hire nearly 500 people in Lawton, Okla., to help support the new health insurance exchanges created under the federal health care law. Serco North America announced that it will lease a 55,000-square-foot building in …
State lawmakers and representatives from health insurance marketplace navigator organizations are questioning both the timing of an effort by Texas regulators to craft rules regarding navigators and the need for rules that go beyond those already in place on the …
Louisiana’s insurance commissioner said that there is “no way at all” that people have enough information to make decisions when the new health insurance marketplaces created by the federal Affordable Care Act open next week. Registration opens Oct. 1 for …
Business leaders and community organizers in Milwaukee, Wis., have formed a nonprofit health insurance company to provide coverage to small businesses and individuals. Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative is one of 24 cooperatives being started nationwide with almost $2 billion in …
With 71 qualified health insurance plans to be sold on the individual market in the new health insurance marketplace, Arkansas officials say health insurance premium rates are coming in lower than expected. Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford announced that qualified …
