Four of the nation’s largest health insurance companies have about a week to justify to a Senate committee their pricing practices.

The chairman of the Pennsylvania House Insurance Committee has asked the Pennsylvania Insurance Department to investigate health insurance industry lobbying, especially the TV advertisements of America’s Health Insurance Plans, on national health care reform.

New Jersey will be one of two states to test a new website giving doctors a single location to find patients’ benefit information.

A ranking member of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee is seeking answers to the bizarre action by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services that has apparently thwarted …  Read →

Indicating it was “inappropriate political pressure,” a ranking member of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee wants answers on why a federal agency is preventing health insurers from discussing the impact of reform efforts with their clients.

Calling it “wholly unacceptable,” Sen. Max Baucus is lashing out against health insurer Humana for mailings to its senior citizen customers the congressman says are misleading.

According to the Associated Press,  HHS is investigating Humana for sending out a mailing that the government agency says scares seniors into believing that their Medicare benefits could be reduced …  Read →

A total of 14 major health insurance companies and their industry association spent 25% more this year to lobby on health care measures before Congress than they did last year, according to a Public Campaign Action Fund analysis.

A group representing the nation’s health insurance companies is calling an investigation by the U.S. House into the finances of 52 insurers a “politically motivated, taxpayer financed fishing expedition.”

Bart …  Read →

A collection of health insurance experts are scheduled to meet in Dallas in July to discuss current legislative efforts for health care reform and the sponsor, BenefitMall, plans to introduce …  Read →