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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.
Mental Health Parity Bills Move Toward Collision
By Staff WriterThe House and the Senate are plowing ahead with work on bills that would require health plans, that cover mental health care, to apply the ...
September 20, 2007
Bush Asks For Short-Term SCHIP Extension BillHouse members may not get to vote on a streamlined State Children's Health Insurance Plan bill Sept. 25 after all.The law authorizing SCHIP is set ...
September 20, 2007
Vander Wal To Lead AHIAThomas Vander Wal has succeeded Lawrence Lounds as president of the Association of Health Insurance Advisors.AHIA, Falls Church, Va., is the health and employee benefits ...
September 20, 2007
Delaware Fines Carrier Over Drug Co-PaymentsA Mid-Atlantic regulator says he believes a health insurer took the wrong approach to complying with a new pharmacy benefit co-payment law.Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt ...
September 20, 2007
Health Underwriting Gain DropsRising medical costs and increasing pressure to hold down premiums may be affecting medical insurance profits.U.S. health insurers' gain from underwriting health coverage fell to ...
September 20, 2007
Health Underwriting Gain DropsRising medical costs and increasing pressure to hold down premiums may be affecting medical insurance profits.U.S. health insurers' gain from underwriting health coverage fell to ...
September 20, 2007
Delaware Fines Carrier Over Drug Co-PaymentsA Mid-Atlantic regulator says he believes a health insurer took the wrong approach to complying with a new pharmacy benefit co-payment law.Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt ...
September 20, 2007
Destiny Health Moves Products Into MissouriDestiny Health is introducing its health insurance products and wellness incentive programs in Missouri.Destiny, Chicago, has developed programs that compensate health plan members for achieving ...