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By Allison Bell |
May 17, 2012
The Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight says "federal facilitated exchanges" will work about as closely with agents and brokers as the states will let them.
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By The Associated Press |
May 16, 2012
Tennessee is one of six states that will share in more than $181 million in federal health care grants.
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By Allison Bell |
May 15, 2012
Even the government has a hard time getting its Summaries of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) perfect.
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May 3, 2012
Groundwork is being laid to create a statewide health insurance exchange in Kentucky intended to reduce coverage costs, but it would be used only if the federal health care reform law is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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By Jonathan J. Cooper |
May 3, 2012
The Obama administration is buying into an ambitious health care initiative in Oregon, announcing Thursday it has tentatively agreed to chip in $1.9 billion over five years to help get the program off the ground.
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By Allison Bell |
April 27, 2012
The three federal agencies in charge of implementing the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 want to know how small employers' use of stop-loss programs, or insurance for self-insured health plans, affects the market for fully insured small group coverage.
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By Allison Bell |
March 23, 2012
U.S. health insurers have had to post explanations of 186 individual health insurance rate increases on the Web since new federal rate review rules took effect Sept. 1, 2011.
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By Kathryn Mayer |
March 22, 2012
The law giving the Pennsylvania Insurance Department authority to review and disapprove rate increases in the small group health insurance market took effect March 21.
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By Kathryn Mayer |
March 21, 2012
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued a challenge to developers to design web-based applications that use Twitter to track health trends in real time.
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By Allison Bell |
March 13, 2012
The National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) has put out a commentary summarizing what it knows about the new Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program.
