Health Insurance
Health insurance news and analysis, with coverage of general health insurance trends, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, vision plans, telemedicine plans, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term health insurance, the Affordable Care Act public exchange program, and more.
PPACA: IRS Starts to Design Health Plan Quality Research Fee
By Allison BellThe Internal Revenue Service is asking for comments about how it should go about using fees from health insurers and sponsors of self-insured health plans to pay for comparative clinical effectiveness research.
June 08, 2011
DeParle: Employers Will Still Offer Coverage in 2014A White House health insurance advisor says reports that the Affordable Care Act will kill off group health plans are greatly exaggerated.
June 08, 2011
Survey: Rising Health Rates Hit HomeInsurance industry employers' own health coverage costs are about 9.7% higher this year than they were in 2010.
June 08, 2011
Digital Insurance Buys 2 More FirmsDigital Insurance Inc. has acquired one benefits firm in the Midwest and another benefits firm in the Southwest.
June 08, 2011
California Blue Shield Agrees to Net Income LimitBlue Shield of California, a nonprofit health insurer, says it will try to limit its annual net income to 2% of revenue.
June 08, 2011
Elementary, my dear WatsonsJohn H. Watson, M.D. was the foil to Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's writings. Together, Watson and Holmes created a whole that was greater than the sum of its parts.
June 08, 2011
Elementary, my dear WatsonsJohn H. Watson, M.D. was the foil to Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's writings. Together, Watson and Holmes created a whole that was greater than the sum of its parts.
June 08, 2011
Survey: Rising Health Rates Hit HomeInsurance industry employers' own health coverage costs are about 9.7% higher this year than they were in 2010.