The third open enrollment period for the health insurance marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act begins Nov. 1 for coverage effective in January, giving the 25 million adults who still lack healthcare coverage the opportunity to sign up.
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CMS reported last week insurers will receive $362 million in risk corridor payments for 2014, or 12.6 percent of the $2.87 billion requested.
In an effort to keep members as rival UPMC grows its insurance business, Pittsburgh-based Highmark is lowering premiums for seven of its nine Medicare Advantage plans for 2016, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Milwaukee-based Assurant Health has closed on the sale of specific business lines and assets from its health insurance business to National General Holdings Corp., effective immediately.
The following insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.
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Kennebunk, Maine-based Mark Farrah Associates, a provider of health plan market data and analysis tools, recently assessed enrollment trends since the onset of the Affordable Care Act's 2014 enrollment season in October 2013.
The CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has announced a new model to test strategies that aim to improve medication use among Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Part D.
Karen Ignagni started a new role Sept. 1 as president and CEO of New York City-based EmblemHealth, the parent company of Group Health Incorporated and the Health Plan of New York. In a recent interview with Crain's New York Business,…
The flood of health insurance mega-mergers announced this year has various implications. David Balto, an antitrust lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice, recently wrote a blog post in The Hill about the how these mergers could affect consumers.
Pennsylvania seniors caught in the middle of the feud between UPMC and Highmark will have another Medicare Advantage option this fall when UnitedHealthcare makes its Medicare Advantage plans widely available in Western Pennsylvania, according to a TribLive report.