Pennsylvania
PAHU asks members to tell business owners to oppose health reform
The Pennsylvania Association of Health Underwriters sent to its members March 15 a draft memo that it hopes its health insurance brokers will send to their clients who are business owners, seeking help in opposing federal health care reform.
Aetna Better Health, the insurer’s Medicaid business, has received a contract with the State of Pennsylvania to administer benefits throughout the state.
Allstate to pay $428,355 to Delaware customers for missed auto discount
More than 2,400 Allstate customers from Delaware will receive refunds or credits totaling $428,355 after the auto insurer neglected to give them proper discounts for completing a defensive driving course.
Designed as a one-stop online source to support agents’ full training and development needs, Ohio Casualty has introduced its new Agent Learning Center for appointed agencies.
LifeCare Gateway, a Pennsylvania-based provider of web-based services and other marketing support to financial service professionals, signed a deal to offer Health Advocate’s health resolution programs to its roster of services.
Medicare pulls contract of provider over ‘significant deficiencies’
Just a little over a week after it suspended a prescription benefit provider for 21 states, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has terminated the company’s contract, effective immediately.
Claiming to be sister-in-law nets health fraud charges for Pa. woman
A Wilkes-Barre, Pa., woman faces two counts each of insurance fraud and obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation after claiming to be her sister-in-law and billing the woman’s health carrier for more than $3,700.
Central PA I Day is scheduled for Thursday, April 1, at the Radisson Penn Harris Hotel & Convention Center in Camp Hill, Pa.
The merger of Group Benefit Services with Client First Brokerage Services late last year has spawned an expansion of education programs originally offered by Client First.
Pa. using $10 million in federal funds to improve health care for children
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell announced that the state will use nearly $10 million in federal grant funds to improve the quality of health care for children and reduce the cost of services by using electronic health records.

Federal health reform would add 10,000 jobs, $4.4 billion to Calif.
Lautenberg, Rubio want to cap TRICARE fees for military retirees
Health care cost at all-time high, despite lower rate of increase

Life insurers sell shares in British tech firm to Pa. company
FINRA estimate for IA SROs excludes monetary, administrative details
Most insurance agencies seeing better results than last year

Pa. broker adds $181,000 commission to $2.1M false insurance invoice
A.M. Best rates Pa.-based insurer’s outlook ‘negative’
With five-year plan stuck, House passes new short-term NFIP extension


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