President Donald Trump will begin a push Thursday to fight health care sticker shock by limiting the unexpected charges faced by insured patients when a member of a health care team that treated them is not in their insurer’s network.
The Orlando-based benefits provider, Web Benefits Design, will continue to operate under its existing name.
The nation's second largest insurer said Wednesday that enrollment in its fully-insured coverage jumped more than 6%, to 15.3 million.
Verma, a protege of Vice President Mike Pence and the architect of Indiana’s Medicaid expansion, appears to have steered agency money to political allies in an effort to boost her reputation, prominent Democrats say.
The CEO who took charge last summer of the Indianapolis company that provides health insurance, food, career help and other services to low-income people acknowledges he has a big job ahead.
The plans at issue in Bates’ ruling Thursday allow groups of small businesses and sole proprietors to band together to offer lower-cost coverage that doesn’t have to include all the benefits required by Obamacare. They also can be offered across state lines.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson urged the federal government to appeal a ruling against his state’s requirement that certain people covered by its Medicaid expansion work or lose their coverage. States with similar rules, like Indiana, are closely watching the case.
Health insurer Centene Corp. has agreed to buy managed-care provider WellCare Health Plans Inc., expanding in the market for government insurance plans just as politicians in Washington, D.C., appear to be gearing up for another health-policy clash.
The insurance company’s executive team is split between three cities that house its major brands. Chicago-bound CFO Paul McDonough will replace Erik Helding, who was based in Carmel.
While publicly backing his company’s 2015 merger with rival health insurer Anthem, Cigna’s CEO privately expressed regret about signing on to a deal that left him with a reduced role, lawyers for Anthem said in court Monday.
The move comes at a time drug makers, especially those that make insulin, are facing withering criticism for raising prices.
Anthem and Cigna are battling in court over whether one owes the other billions in damages for the collapse of their proposed merger.
The Carmel-based company, which focuses on the transportation industry, also cut its dividend from 28 cents per share to 10 cents per share.
A leader of House Democrats’ progressive wing is proposing “Medicare for all” legislation that would replace almost all private health insurance, winning endorsements from many of its top presidential contenders.
Cigna Corp. officials did everything they could to sabotage a $48.9 billion merger with Anthem Inc., Anthem’s general counsel told a judge Monday.
The Carmel-based insurance holding company said last week that a previously reported third-quarter transaction hurt its full-year financial results.
Shares of the nation's second-largest health insurer soared after Anthem said it expected adjusted earnings in the new year to be better than $19 per share.
Increasingly, top researchers are questioning whether drugs such as Lantus from Sanofi, Levemir and Novolog from Novo Nordisk A/S, and Humalog from Eli Lilly and Co. are really needed for many patients.
The Indiana Department of Insurance said Wednesday that Nebraska-based First American Title Insurance Co. must pay $3.7 million for overcharging customers between 2006 and 2008.
While many analysts expect the ruling to be reversed by higher courts, the news adds to volatility in a sector that had barely recovered from political static this year.
