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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.
Know Your Clients. Well.
By Michael Jay Markey Jr.To help your clients, you need to understand their needs, their resources and their time horizon.
March 18, 2019
Medicaid Squeeze Hurts Nursing Home Quality: WitnessesLow Medicaid reimbursement rates for nursing homes are hurting the quality of care, by keeping operators from offering high enough wages to attract…
March 18, 2019
Chuck Ritzke to Lead ICMGRitzke has worked for companies such as Zurich Life and Bankers Life and Casualty.
March 16, 2019
5 Things Senators Are Hearing About Killer Drug PricesOne sign of the size of the problem is the Cigna-Kroger celecoxib price gap.
March 16, 2019
Regulators Aim to Make Troubled Insurers Work BetterThe NAIC's new Restructuring Mechanisms Working Group is looking at how to improve runoff and restructuring arrangements.
March 14, 2019
State Legislators May Write a Short-Term Health ModelThe sales standards fight is also on the agenda for NCOIL's meeting in Nashville.
March 14, 2019
DentaQuest to Acquire Midwestern Dental InsurerDental Care Plus Group has been providing coverage for about 380,000 people.
March 14, 2019
Academics Wary of FSOC's New Systemic Risk PlanFinancial services companies want regulators to focus on problem activities. Jeremy Kress says that won't work.