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.
Unum completes Starmount deal
By Allison BellUnum Dental and Unum Vision products could arrive in 2017.
August 02, 2016
Aetna has deal to sell assets to Molina in merger planMolina could get 290,000 Medicare plan lives for $117 million in cash.
August 02, 2016
What Zika fighters urgently need from CongressTheres no reason for panic, the authors say, but there is reason for action.
August 02, 2016
5 reasons Medicaid kills long-term care insurance salesEconomists look at how the cash-strapped government program knocks out the competition.
August 02, 2016
Are your clients insuring enough of their lives?Client attitudes about risk are somewhat at odds with reality. Follow this by-the-numbers approach to help your clients understand how much insurance is enough.
August 01, 2016
The future of value-based careEvolent Health's Eric Parmenter explains how value-based care differs from the HMO model.
August 01, 2016
IRS fills ACA health coverage information holesThe Internal Revenue Service is getting ready to flesh out the rules that govern who tells the agency what kind of health coverage people have.
August 01, 2016
Independent agents increase share of Medigap revenueGen Re finds that non-ACA gap-filler market performing well.