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.
Highmark to Acquire Mutual of Omaha Health Stop-Loss Business
By Allison BellHM Insurance Group has agreed to buy an employer health plan stop-loss business with about $100 million in annual premium revenue from Mutual of Omaha.
June 17, 2010
Life in the Trenches of the Health Insurance Business: Part 5 in a SeriesThis month's insurance nightmare: You submit your health insurance payments through a third party administrator but the administrator does not remit payments to the carrier, so coverage for all employees is canceled.
June 16, 2010
Brewer Signs 4 AdvisorsA full-service broker-dealer says it recently has attracted financial professionals with a total of about $100 million in assets under management.
June 16, 2010
Seeing The Value of Group Disability InsuranceDisability insurance can be an excellent product for your group clients to offer their employees -- and yet, 70 percent of the private sector workforce has no long-term disability insurance.
June 16, 2010
California To Conduct More Health Rate Actuarial ReviewsThe California Department of Insurance will subject individual health insurance rate changes filed by the four biggest health carriers to an additional level of actuarial scrutiny, officials say.
June 16, 2010
New York: Contracts Got Appeal Rules WrongA health insurer in New York state gave policyholders incorrect information about appeal rights for "many years," officials say.
June 16, 2010
Another fine mess"But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess." That was how President Obama characterized our industry on August 6, 2009.
June 16, 2010
PPACA: New HHS Health Agency Helps Issue Grandfather RegsThe new federal Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight is one of the agencies helping to roll out the new grandfathered health plan interim final rules.