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.
Hospital Agrees To Cut ER Rates 35% For Uninsured Patients
By Staff WriterLawyers have announced a proposed class-action lawsuit settlement that could affect the ability of health insurers to negotiate better rates than uninsured patients get.Scripps Health, ...
January 30, 2008
Health Groups Weigh In On Reform EffortsAgent associations are welcoming the attention President Bush gave to health insurance Monday during his State of the Union address.Bush called during the speech for ...
January 30, 2008
Health Groups Weigh In On Reform EffortsAgent associations are welcoming the attention President Bush gave to health insurance Monday during his State of the Union address.Bush called during the speech for ...
January 30, 2008
Hancock Updates LTC Product Marketing MaterialsAn insurer has come out with new brochures for a long term care insurance policy.John Hancock Life Insurance Company, Boston, a unit of Manulife Financial ...
January 30, 2008
Anderson To Lead ExanteA managed care company has recruited a banker to run a health account financial services subsidiary.UnitedHealth Group Inc., Minnetonka, Minn., has hired Kelvin Anderson to ...
January 30, 2008
LTC Awareness Campaign ExpandsThe American Association for Long Term Care Insurance is converting the old Long Term Care Awareness Week into Long Term Care Awareness Month.The LTC awareness ...
January 29, 2008
Regulators Attack Carrier Over Payment DelaysCalifornia insurance regulators say they could ask for as much as $1.3 billion in fines and other penalties in connection with allegations that a unit ...
January 29, 2008
Kofman Tapped To Lead Maine Insurance BureauMaine Gov. John Baldacci has nominated Mila Kofman to be the state's top insurance regulator.Baldacci, a Democrat, is recommending that Kofman be the superintendent of ...