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.
CA Insurers Will Pay For Actuaries
By Heather TreseRecently, Steve Poizner hired independent actuaries to determine if health plans' requested rate increases were too high. But now, under a new bill, insurance companies will have to and pay for actuaries on their own.
September 13, 2010
Broker Acquires Health NavigatorsOvation Benefits Group L.L.C. has scooped up a health risk management firm.
September 13, 2010
Health Issues Heat Up for AgentsCongress is expected to take up, as early as this week, a proposed revision to the healthcare reform law designed to limit a stringent tax-reporting mandate scheduled to go into effect in 2012 that is particularly irksome to small businesses.
September 13, 2010
NAIFA to Raise DuesThe National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors will be increasing dues Jan. 1, 2011, and again Jan. 1, 2012.
September 13, 2010
NAIFA: Currey Accentuates the PositiveThe National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors has helped agents stay in the health coverage ballgame, Thomas Currey said here at the group's annual meeting.
September 13, 2010
PPACA: NAIC Releases Model DraftsThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners has posted draft model language for health coverage provisions concerning preventive services, rescissions and lifetime and annual benefits limits.
September 13, 2010
CA Insurers Will Pay For ActuariesRecently, Steve Poizner hired independent actuaries to determine if health plans' requested rate increases were too high. But now, under a new bill, insurance companies will have to and pay for actuaries on their own.
September 13, 2010
After a Near-Death Experience, Individual LTC Sales Rise SharplyIndividual long term care (LTC) insurance sales rose 13% in the first half of this year, reversing a sales decline that had endured for most of the previous seven years, LIMRA reports.