Healthcare Finance Staff
While some large insurers were reluctant to start selling lots of individual policies through the federal insurance marketplace, a number of Blues plans dove right in.
WellPoint Inc. has earned the status of Common Security Framework Certified from HITRUST, the information security and risk management organization, making it the largest health benefits company to achieve the certification for 2013.
Firearm assaults cost U.S. hospitals almost $630 million in 2010 and alot of that falls on public payers, according to recent research by the Urban Institute.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plans to re-bid the city workers' health insurance contract has come to a halt for now, after a state court agreed with municipal union concerns and put the request for proposals on temporary hold.
In the states with largest uninsured populations, the stakes are high for this fall's insurance exchange enrollment -- the difference between the healthcare status-quo and improvements in healthcare access and sustainability.
The Department of Health and Human Services is promising consumers a simple enrollment process, but the federal marketplace website, along with a number of state exchanges, were glitchy or non-functioning during the morning of Oct. 1, as software kinks were exposed and servers were strained.
The federal government has shut down, but the health insurance exchanges opened for business as planned Tuesday, although with traffic tie-ups, despite Republican lawmakers' efforts to block a major component of the health reform law from taking effect.
Many of the 50 individuals who showed up for a community forum to find out about the Maryland Health Connection on a September evening in suburban Washington appeared to share a need for what the health insurance exchange could offer them.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is getting ready for the first year of its multi-state health plans, offering consumers another, perhaps little-known option in state and federal exchanges.
Patient advocacy groups have made available a cancer insurance checklist tool to help cancer patients decide which is the most appropriate health plan for them when shopping for coverage in the new health insurance exchanges.