Four insurance carriers have filed with the state of offer insurance policies on the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange. The providers are Anthem, Nevada Health Co-op, Saint Mary’s and Health Plan of Nevada. Each will be offering HMO policies. People in southern...
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Complaints continue for new NC online Medicaid system
Joseph Reutter is a sales manager at a medical supply company. His company is one of several that contacted Channel 9 concerned about NCTracks, the state's new online Medicaid system. Many told Channel 9 they have not been paid since the new system launched earlier...
Largest California Small Business Insurer has no Interest in Exchange
Health insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross is spurning California's new insurance market for small businesses, a potential setback in the state's rollout of the federal healthcare law. Anthem, a unit of WellPoint Inc., is California's largest insurer for small...
New York VC wants to change Health Care with Oscar
Joshua Kushner, investor and founder of New York-based investment firm, Thrive Capital and well known for backing hot startups such as Instagram, Fab, Warby Parker and Codecademy, has been quietly working on his second startup, which is focused on the healthcare...
NCTracks: NCs new Medicaid payment system a nightmare some providers say
State officials say the new Medicaid bill-paying system is working better than expected. But for the company trying to get kids wheelchairs, the dentist who hasn’t been paid in a month and the companies who wait days to get their calls for help returned, the system is...
RI Blue Cross and University Medicine enter partnership
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island and a physician's group have entered into a partnership aimed at improving health care and slowing cost increases. The three-year shared-savings agreement between the state's dominant insurer and the 200-physician University...
Insurance exchange covers entire state of Alabama
Alabama should have no counties left out of a federally operated health insurance exchange because three companies have proposed insurance plans and two of the companies want to cover the entire state. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, the state’s largest health...
Vermont Releases Final Health Insurance Rates
Vermonters can expect to pay slightly lower premiums than those initially proposed by the two insurance carriers approved to sell plans on the state's new health insurance Marketplace, called Vermont Health Connect. The Green Mountain Care Board, the regulatory...
Fraud fear raised in California’s health exchange
As California prepares to launch its health care exchange, consumer groups are worried the uninsured could fall victim to fraud, identity theft or other crimes at the hands of some of the very people who are supposed to help them enroll. The exchange, known as Covered...
Security Experts Criticize BCBS of NC Handling of Private Data
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina periodically shares the private personal and health information of hundreds of thousands of clients with a third-party company that designs the insurance company’s software system, documents and interviews show. Internal...
Doherty Hired at RI Blue Cross to Probe Medical Fraud
The former state police superintendent who waged an unsuccessful campaign for Congress last year has been hired by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island to investigate health care fraud. Blue Cross on Thursday announced that Brendan Doherty will serve as...
Lines drawn for next Highmark-UPMC tiff
What’s “fair and affordable?” Well, of course, it depends on who's talking. But “fair and affordable” and “reasonable” are words getting a lot of play these days by the unlikely couple of Highmark Inc. and the Service Employees International Union as Blair County...