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.
Feds get tough on health care fraud
By staff WriterLast week, the Obama administration revealed new federal enforcement measures to combat health care fraud, which costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year.
January 14, 2011
Fitch: PPACA Effects Should Be ManageableFitch Ratings worries about the effects of the Affordable Care Act medical loss ratio rules on individual health insurance sales, but it is feeling better about the overall state of the U.S. health insurance market.
January 14, 2011
PPACA: Risk Pool Program Starts SlowlyOnly 8,011 U.S. residents had health coverage through the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan program in early November 2010.
January 13, 2011
Calif. Asks Health Insurers to Slow Increase RequestsDave Jones, the new California insurance commissioners, is asking big carriers to refrain from increasing premiums for at least 60 days after the effective dates of their most recent rate filings.
January 13, 2011
Northwestern Mutual: Finances Have Our AttentionTaking control of personal finances is a top priority this year for most Americans, according to Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company.
January 13, 2011
AHIP Exec to Plan Designers: Think Chevy, Not PorscheWell-intentioned efforts to offer individuals and small groups great health benefits could push the price of coverage far out of reach, an America's Health Insurance Plans executive warns.
January 13, 2011
The Race for the ACOScheduled to launch in January of next year, PPACA's ACO initiative is not yet upon us - but hospitals and doctors are already rushing to form these accountable care organizations.
January 13, 2011
Deals: Digital Insurance, Brown, IPipelineDigital Insurance Inc. is still in the market for health insurance brokers, and it recently completed the acquisitions of two firms.