The U.S. Justice Department has expanded an investigation of Blue Cross/Blue Shield licensees’ alleged anti-competitive agreements with hospitals beyond Michigan, where it filed an antitrust lawsuit against the insurer.

Small businesses would be more likely to offer their employees insurance if they knew more about provisions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a survey shows.

The Maryland House of Delegates passed a bill creating health exchanges that softens the state’s approach toward implementing federal health reform.

“Using health agents and brokers differently” might encourage people to enroll in health insurance, if the controversial individual mandate included in the federal health reform law were eliminated, according to a new government report exploring health exchanges.

The North Carolina Senate is scheduled to vote today (March 28) on a bill that would charge employees and teachers a monthly insurance premium to close revenue gaps in the state health plan.

Aetna sued six out-of-network doctors in New Jersey, whose bills for care for the insurer’s patients, including one for $56,980 for a bedside consultation, were “unlawful and excessive.”

A panel of Maryland and federal leaders marked the one-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act March 24 by extolling the law’s consumer protections, especially those that concern women and children.

Cigna Healthcare of North Carolina agreed to pay more than $1.2 million in fines, refunds and credits to settle allegations of numerous violations state insurance regulators uncovered during a routine market conduct examination more than five years ago.

Insurers must modify their sales strategies to appeal to modern consumers looking foremost for good advice and quality interactions through multiple interaction points, a new report says.

A medical jet company sued Woodland Parks, N.J., which refused to pay a $433,525 bill for flying its police chief home from an Idaho cancer treatment center after its insurer allegedly refused responsibility.