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.
Agency Rollups Pick Up Speed
By Ashley ScudderIn the agency world, recent M&A activity is suggesting that the economy might be picking up, slowly but surely.
October 22, 2010
PPACA: ACO Market Size MattersThe new accountable care organizations may work better if they are more tightly knit in bigger communities and more loosely structured in smaller communities.
October 22, 2010
PPACA: CBO Skeptical about Cost SavingsThe Affordable Care Act may have only a "very limited" effect on unnecessary U.S. health care spending in the coming decade, according to Congressional Budget Office analysts.
October 22, 2010
Protective Life Signs Liberty Life Coinsurance DealA subsidiary of Protective Life Corp. has agreed to coinsure the life and health business of Liberty Life Insurance Company.
October 22, 2010
PPACA: ACO Market Size MattersThe new accountable care organizations may work better if they are more tightly knit in bigger communities and more loosely structured in smaller communities.
October 22, 2010
PPACA: CBO Skeptical about Cost SavingsThe Affordable Care Act may have only a "very limited" effect on unnecessary U.S. health care spending in the coming decade, according to Congressional Budget Office analysts.
October 22, 2010
Earnings: StanCorp, UnitedHealthThe life and health insurers that kicked off the third-quarter earnings reporting season this week recorded profits.
October 22, 2010
Earnings: StanCorp, UnitedHealthThe life and health insurers that kicked off the third-quarter earnings reporting season this week recorded profits.