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.
NAIC To Miss HHS Cost Rule Deadline
By Arthur D. PostalState insurance regulators say they are hurrying to set uniform medical loss ratio rules but cannot meet federal regulators' original June 1 deadline.
June 01, 2010
Medicare scams multiplyWow, Medicare, it seems, has really become a poster child for bad business practices.
June 01, 2010
S.C. Blue Teams With Clinic CompanyBlue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina has formed an alliance with Comprehensive Health Services Inc.
June 01, 2010
Assurant Taps VSPAssurant Employee Benefits has introduced a fully insured vision plan.
June 01, 2010
PPACA: Nonprofit Hospitals Face New RulesThe Internal Revenue Service has started implementing Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provisions that will require tax-exempt hospitals to do more to justify their exemptions.
June 01, 2010
Dearborn National Joins Young Adult ShiftA dental insurance unit of Health Care Service Corp. is expanding the group of people who are eligible to come to it for dependent coverage.
June 01, 2010
MEEP To Handle ACA Claims RiskA&H Intermediaries L.L.C. has created the Medical Excess Experience Pool, an entity that will help carriers cope with the new federal ban on lifetime medical insurance benefits caps.
June 01, 2010
PPACA: Which Loss Ratios Should Be THE Loss Ratios?Aetna Inc. is asking insurance regulators to let insurers use companywide medical loss ratio (MLR) statistics, rather than single-state statistics, when complying with the new Affordable Care Act MLR standards.