Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield wants to form a new insurance plan with MaineHealth. And it wants the state to keep the details of that plan secret as it seeks approval from the Maine Bureau of Insurance. The state has said OK. Central Maine Healthcare has said no...
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UPMC Board Votes Against Extending Highmarks Contract
The battle continues to heat up between UPMC and Highmark. On Friday, the UPMC board voted not to extend Highmark’s contract when it expires in 2014. UPMC brought out a big ad campaign Sunday and the big guns to drive home the point that UPMC will do what it has to do...
Aetna Leaving California Individual Insurance Marketplace
Insurance Company Aetna Inc. will stop selling health insurance to individual consumers in California at the end of the year, withdrawing as the federal health law is expected to reshape the market in 2014. The pullout is likely to draw attention as California has...
Healthcare Delivered through PC, Tablet and Smartphone
Like telematics in auto insurance, telehealth in health insurance provides an opportunity for insurers to have a closer dialog with their policyholders and better manage their risk of loss. And it's growing at a similar rate: This week, three prominent insurers...
Blue Cross of Idaho Launches Health Exchange Site
Blue Cross of Idaho has launched a website called GetCoveredIdaho.com to help guide Idahoans through the upcoming Idaho Health Insurance Exchange, part of the Affordable Care Act. The website is meant to offer clear answers on requirements and reforms of the bill, and...
North Carolina BCBS Network Alert
The deadline to enter into the new North Carolina Blue Cross Blue Sheild network is June 24th 2013. Earlier this month BCBS of NC announced they would be discontinuing thier current "closed" network and replacing it with an opened network. The opened network will have...
Vermont board begins review of rates under exchange
The board overseeing efforts to overhaul Vermont's health insurance system said Monday it has begun reviewing the rates customers will be expected to pay under the Vermont Health Connect exchange. The Green Mountain Care Board has received recommendations from the...
Florida Blue Files to Form a Not-for Profit Mutual Insurance Holding Company
Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield Company, has filed a request with the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) to organize under a policyholder-owned, not-for-profit mutual insurance holding company (MIHC) system. This structure provides Florida...
Geography affects premiums on California health insurance exchange
For the same health coverage from the same insurer, a 40-year-old Sacramentan will pay $78 more per month than a Los Angeles County resident through the state's new insurance exchange. In rural Mono County, the disparity will be even larger: $150 per month, nearly 60...
CMS Touts Dwindling Number of DME Companies
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has removed 14,663 healthcare providers and suppliers from the Medicare program in the last two years, the agency announced Thursday. The figure more than doubles the number of removals from the prior two-year period. The...
Highmark acquisition of Erie hospital receives OK
Highmark Inc. expects to close an acquisition of St. Vincent Health System in Erie on July 1, since the Erie County Orphan's Court approved the deal on Friday. The Erie County Orphan’s Court on Friday approved the affiliation of Saint Vincent Health System with...
UnitedHealth won’t join many health exchanges; says they might attract sick people
UnitedHealth Group Inc. will sell coverage in just a dozen of the new health exchanges being set up in states, a lower number than it had suggested earlier and a sign that insurers are treading cautiously into the new market. Bloomberg reports on remarks made to...