by Admin | Apr 30, 2012 | Carriers, Healthcare Reform, Insurance News, Obamacare
(Reuters) – U.S. health insurers will pay $1.3 billion in rebates to consumers and employers this year under a provision of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law that penalizes plans that devote too little of their premium revenues to health...
by Admin | Feb 22, 2012 | Healthcare Reform, Insurance Laws, Insurance News, Medicare
A summary of health reform initiatives which become effective in 2012: 2012 Changes to Medicare Make Part D cost sharing for full benefit dual eligible beneficiaries receiving home and community based care services equal to the cost sharing for those who receive...
by Admin | Feb 22, 2012 | Healthcare Reform, Insurance News, Surveys
A new RAND Corporation study concludes that eliminating a key part of health care reform that requires all Americans to have health insurance would sharply lower the number of people gaining coverage, but would not dramatically increase the cost of buying policies...
by Admin | Nov 29, 2011 | Healthcare Reform, Insurance News, Obamacare
(Reuters) – The breakdown of deficit talks in Congress will exact little pain on the U.S. healthcare industry, but it’s a temporary reprieve from steeper cuts that could be put back on the table in 2013. The failure of the congressional “super...
by Admin | Aug 25, 2011 | Healthcare Reform, Insurance Laws, Insurance News
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued new guidance stating that plan sponsors of all stand-alone Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) with rollover of unused funds in effect prior to September 23, 2010 will no longer be required to seek waivers...
by Admin | May 31, 2011 | Blue Cross Blue Shield, Healthcare Reform, Insurance News
The CEO of the nonprofit health insurance company Blue Shield of California, Bruce Bodaken, earned $4.6 million in 2010, according to documents made public by the California Department of Insurance Wednesday. Blue Shield paid its top ten executives more than $14...
