Aetna has launched Aetna Whole Health in western Va., one of its first new health benefit plan using the accountable care organization (ACO) model.

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is expanding his investigation into health insurance companies’ policies on covering medically necessary care.

Only a few months old, Pennsylvania insurers are saying it is too soon to gauge the impact of raising the adult dependent age to 30 for coverage on employer-based health plans.

Maryland is poised to join 30 other states in extending dependent coverage to cover adult children under their parents’ health plans, a move one state delegate, who is also a health insurance agent, calls “a no-brainer.”