The student insurance provider for at least four Ohio universities abruptly shut down in December, leaving hundreds of uninsured students in search of a replacement without a lapse in coverage, according to cleveland.com.
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A study examining what insurance policies 450 private and public colleges offered their employees in 2017 found a significant increase in high-deductible health plan offerings, according to Sibson Consulting.
While General Electric is spinning off its healthcare unit, the company is facing challenges when it comes to its long-term care insurance policies, according to Marketplace.
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has entered into a new multiyear contract with health insurance company Cigna after 11 months of negotiations.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan alerted roughly 15,000 Medicare Advantage members that their personal information may have been compromised, according to Crain's Detroit Business.
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Several Tenet Healthcare facilities in Massachusetts and other states are set to go out of network with Cigna Jan. 1. In recent ads with Worcester, Mass.-based Telegram & Gazette, the health system has called Cigna "unsure-ance" due to the dispute.
A significant number of health insurance consumers gained coverage for services after filing an appeal, according to research from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission.
Amazon could make a big play in the health insurance industry next year, according to CNBC.
In an opinion piece published by the Houston Chronicle, the president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas wrote that healthcare delivery systems in rural parts of the state are "on life-support or nonexistent."
Pennsylvania senators and representatives have written to CMS to see if the agency can give more information to patients who will be affected in six months by a split between Pittsburgh-based Highmark and UPMC, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.