Chris Anderson
In a turnaround from earlier this year when it requested rate increases of more than 59 percent for some policy holders, Blue Shield of California announced yesterday it would limit its net income to no more than 2 percent of revenue.
The California Assembly has passed AB 52, a bill that would give the California Insurance Commissioner the power to reject or change health insurance rate increases that are deemed excessive.
Less than three months after launching a self-insurance program in its local market, WellNet Health Plans has announced three separate PPO agreements that will expand its market reach into West Virginia, Nevada and the Washington, D.C. metro area.
The Maryland Health Care Commission has launched an online portal intended to help small businesses comparison-shop for health insurance plans for their employees.
A Q&A with Richard Burke, president of senior care services for the Fallon Community Health Plan
– In a pairing that matches the state’s largest healthcare provider and largest insurer, Providence Health & Services and Premera Blue Cross announced last month an alliance to launch multiple patient-centered medical homes in Providence clinics throughout Washington state.
The healthcare sector added more than 37,000 jobs in April and has added 295,000 jobs since April 2010, according to employment data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A new Medicare Trustees Report has projected that Medicare's Hospital Insurance Fund will run out of money in 2024, five years earlier than projected in last year's report.
In what he described as "both an opportunity and an obligation," Vermont Gov. Pete Shumlin has signed the country's first single-payer law, setting the state on a course to be first with a publicly financed healthcare system.
The Department of Health & Human Services has unveiled a regulation that will require independent review of most health insurance annual premium increases of 10 percent or higher.