Humana, based in Louisville, Kent., acquired a San Diego, Calif.-based health care analytics company to enhance its health care and identify cost savings.

Florida regulators have fined Humana $3.4 million for violating the state law requiring the national health insurer to promptly report Medicaid fraud or abuse.

Insurance carriers need to improve if service fundamentals by “proactively” offer advice and provide customized options to employers if they are to increase employer satisfaction with health insurance plans, a new study suggests.

UnitedHealth has filed suit against the U.S. Defense Department over its awarding of the Tricare South Region contract to Humana, who it took the contract from two years ago.

A federal court in Chicago, Ill., ruled unanimously that a beneficiary’s insurer has the right to designate $15,000 in life insurance policy benefits to a family member of its choice.

A national insurer announced that it will offer dental benefits plans to people in New York, including New York City, Albany and Rochester, as part of its continuing dental plan expansion.

Independent insurance agents ranked in the middle of the pack in a survey of customers’ experience, while insurance providers ranked well ahead of health insurance plans in the annual analysis.

Humana and Lincoln Financial Group have inked a new distribution partnership, enabling 2,000 Humana agents to offer Lincoln’s fixed annuities and MoneyGuard long-term care insurance products.

The majority of baby boomers feel stress about the future of costs of their retirement after seeing their investments take a bath in the market collapse of 2008.

President Barack Obama, marking the 90th day since passage of federal health reform legislation, met with chief executives from more than a dozen insurance companies, warning them against raising rates in response to new requirements placed on them.