The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently introduced an interim final rule standardizing certain electronic transactions to save $12 billion and give providers better access to patients’ health care information.

Health Net agreed to pay $250,000 to Connecticut to settle a case involving the May 2009 loss of a computer disk drive containing personal health information of up to 2 million health plan members.

Agents and brokers marketing limited medical plans, which will undergo “major changes” with the new health care reform law, should be looking ahead at how those changes will affect their clients, according to an industry expert.

In a letter to the head of national insurer WellPoint, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urges an end to reports of dropping coverage for women with breast cancer.

In what he is calling a “historic” lawsuit, Connecticut’s attorney general has filed suit against Health Net of Connecticut for a data breach jeopardizing the personal information of 446,000 of its members.

A group representing thousands of workers in CVS Caremark plans is warning that the pharmacy benefit manager could be selling patient information and prescription drug histories of state employees and …  Read →