The largest nonprofit health insurer in the country, Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp., which is the Blue Cross & Blue Shield insurer for Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, reported a $281.9 million loss in 2014, compared with a…
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Humana was incorporated in the 1960s as a healthcare company, and the business has grown to offer several insurance products and health and wellness services. Louisville, Ky.-based Humana is now among the major national commercial payers.
Crystal Run Healthcare, a multi-specialty group medical practice based in Middletown, N.Y., announced Tuesday it will now offer health insurance coverage for residents or employees of Orange and Sullivan counties in New York.
Health insurers with proposed rate hikes above 10 percent for plans sold on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges were made available online on Monday.
There have been whispers of Humana possibly being acquired by a competing health insurer, and now people familiar with the matter have confirmed Humana has engaged in preliminary discussions with at least two major payers, according to The Wall Street…
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Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital and Cigna have reached a new contract, according to a Herald-Tribune report.
CMS unveiled a regulatory package containing the first major update to Medicaid managed care regulations in more than 10 years this week, and health insurers opposing some of the provisions are planning to challenge the proposed rule before it is…
Many insurers are proposing increased rates for insurance plans created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as a result of the high medical costs incurred in 2014 for the newly insured, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, is leaving to lead the New York City-based nonprofit health plan EmblemHealth.
Health insurance companies report premiums will continue to increase into 2016 with claims trends exceeding general inflation for at least the next 18 months, according to Wells Fargo Insurance's Spring Healthcare Trend Survey.