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.
Retirees, Beware the Rising Cost of Health Care: RIIA Speaker
By Gerald BurstynCharlie Baker of General Catalyst Partners had one simple message for investment advisors at the Retirement Income Industry Association spring conference in Chicago: health care costs are going up, up, up.
March 21, 2011
PPACA: HHS Posts Quality Strategy DocumentDrafters mention the cost of care briefly in the new National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care, a document that is supposed to shape U.S. quality improvement efforts.
March 21, 2011
PPACA: HHS Posts Quality Strategy DocumentDrafters mention the cost of care briefly in the new National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care, a document that is supposed to shape U.S. quality improvement efforts.
March 21, 2011
Senate to Vote on Repealing 1099 Reporting ProvisionThe Senate appears poised to support H.R. 4, the House version of legislation repealing the much-criticized 1099 reporting provision through a vote likely to occur this week.
March 21, 2011
Thanks For NothingPaul Keckley, executive director at the Deloitte Center for Health Care Solutions, Washington, spends his days with health plan executives who view complying with the Affordable Care Act as a business imperative.
March 21, 2011
GAO: Effects of TRICARE Change UnclearThe U.S. Department of Defense cannot tell whether a new TRICARE coordination of benefits rule is actually saving any money."
March 21, 2011
International Reviewers Few Non-Bank Structured Credit DisclosuresCountries still seem to differ in terms of whether they apply the same structured credit risk exposure rules to banks and to other types of financial institutions, according to officials at the Financial Stability Board.
March 21, 2011
WellPoint to Raise Calif. Individual Rates 9.1%A unit of WellPoint Inc. has agreed to increase individual health insurance rates in California a little less and a little later than it had originally proposed.