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: What If We Lose The Enrollee?
By Allison BellCompensating individual health policyholders who pay more for coverage than the new federal laws permit could be tricky, an insurer executive says.
June 22, 2010
GAO Needs An ActuaryCongress is looking for someone who can help it handle the math involved with overseeing a $10 trillion economy.
June 22, 2010
How to Get Your Long Term Care Insurance Client Approved - The BasicsYou've been referred to a couple as prospective long term care insurance buyers, and because of family experience, they are highly motivated to buy policies.
June 22, 2010
PPACA: Agencies Release Core RegulationsThe Obama administration has unveiled interim final regulations it will use to implement the rescission, preexisting condition exclusion, benefits maximum and patient protection provisions in the new federal health laws.
June 22, 2010
Assurant Health introduces simple, affordable Clarity health plansAssurant Health, Milwaukee, has introduced Assurant Clarity, an affordable health insurance option with consumer-preferred features, in Denver and San Antonio and Corpus Christi, Texas.
June 22, 2010
ACA: GAO Picks Co-Op Advisory Board MembersThe U.S. Government Accountability Office has started organizing a body that will help set up nonprofit, member-run health insurers that will serve the individual and small group markets.
June 22, 2010
PPACA: What If We Lose The Enrollee?Compensating individual health policyholders who pay more for coverage than the new federal laws permit could be tricky, an insurer executive says.
June 22, 2010
PPACA: Agencies Release Core RegulationsThe Obama administration has unveiled interim final regulations it will use to implement the rescission, preexisting condition exclusion, benefits maximum and patient protection provisions in the new federal health laws.