Health Insurance News
Two owners of a south Chicago area home health care business and a suspended podiatrist were arrested for allegedly defrauding Medicare of more than $1.5 million.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is telling federal officials that its proposal for regulating new federally mandated multi-state health insurance plans could upset state insurance markets and erode consumer protections.
Majority says health reform law should make women’s birth control free
Health insurers should be mandated to provide women’s birth control services at no cost to the women, according to the latest IFAwebnews.com poll.
A federal appeals court in Atlanta contradicted another federal court, ruling that the controversial requirement that people either buy health insurance or face a fine, a key piece of the federal health reform law, is unconstitutional.
AmeriHealth New Jersey moved its headquarters to Cranbury, N.J., from its two previous main offices in Mt. Laurel and Iselin, N.J.
Two Blue health insurers are partnering to acquire interest in one of the largest Medicaid companies in the U.S. to better serve beneficiaries in light of looming changes to the program, starting in 2014.
Two insurance companies were ordered to pay restitution and change their marketing methods after “deceptively” selling discount health plans as health insurance to Massachusetts consumers in a $2.4 million civil judgement.
A Golden Valley, Minn.-based health provider signed an agreement to acquire a technology services company to design health care exchanges that better attract and serve insurance consumers.
Former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario is leaving his job with the Obama Administration developing a key component included in the federal health reform law.
President Barack Obama‘s health reform plan will force private insurers to cover women’s preventative health services, including birth control medicines, without a deductible or co-pay, starting in August 2012.

Obama to force insurers to give out birth control when employers won’t
Group representing 119 in Congress calls individual mandate illegal
Insurer fined for charging unapproved rates on students’ policies

Brokerage firm pays $3.3M for bad-mouthing insurance broker
Employee benefit offerings only as good as the discussion about them
Sponsors of 401(k)s adding features to boost participants’ investment

Mercury Insurance seeks agents, unveils new commercial auto product
Most, least expensive 2012 car models to insure announced
Two insurance agents allegedly stole $422,000 from family brokerage


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