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.
CMS Schedules CO-OP Meeting
By staff WriterThe Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan Advisory Board will meet April 15 to vote on recommendations for a CO-OP grant and loan award strategy.
March 28, 2011
Consumer Information Team Tackles New ProjectsThe Consumer Information Subgroup at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has created two new small groups to tackle consumer communication challenges.
March 28, 2011
Summit Business Media Launches BenefitsPro.comSummit Business Media has announced the official launch of BenefitsPro.com, a source of news and opinion aimed at benefits brokers, human resources managers and retirement advisors.
March 28, 2011
MetLife: Workers Are SeethingThe workers that employers have left may be more productive, but they are also angrier.
March 28, 2011
HHS Releases Health IT Strategy DraftFederal health information technology planners would like to see "private payers" - health insurers - help encourage doctors and hospitals to make more use of electronic health record systems.
March 28, 2011
MetLife: Workers Are SeethingThe workers that employers have left may be more productive, but they are also angrier.
March 28, 2011
Physician Quality Ruling Favors Blue Shield of CaliforniaA state court judge in Alameda County, Calif., has dismissed efforts by physicians and a state medical society to kill a Blue Shield of California physician quality recognition program.
March 28, 2011
NAIC Delays MLR ActionState insurance regulators will be waiting at least 4 more weeks to act on a resolution calling for agent and broker commissions to be excluded from medical loss ratio calculations.