A bill that makes a statewide health insurance pool for school staff is now headed for Governor Tim Pawlentys desk. It passed the House 77-53 early Friday morning. The Senate approved the bill Monday. Supporters have fence a pool would help limit spikes in payments and put districts in an improved position when manage able [...]

Aetna’s marketing and enrollment of new Medicare customers will come to a halt April 21, after the discovery of compliance issues by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.  The CMS announced it would impose an intermediate sanction against the Connecticut-based health insurer to ensure its Medicare beneficiaries continue to have access to recommendation drugs [...]

By Keith L. Martin With one rate hike request reserved due to miscalculations, the California Department of Insurance says it is taking a earlier look at the strength of claims data used by Anthem Blue Cross. Anthem, an auxiliary of WellPoint, withdrew a planned rate hike of up to 39% for some customers after state [...]

Governor Chet Culver declared Friday afternoon that Iowa will agree 35 million dollar in central funds over the next 4 year to work its own temporary health insurance strategy for high risk individuals. This step will help cover uninsurable Iowans as the country conversion toward execution of federal health insurance reform.
Each Iowan should have access [...]

Federal legislators have found a major hole in the regulation of health insurance premiums before the new health care reform takes effect. This hole could lead to even more dramatic increase in premiums than the 39% increase announced by Anthem in California in February as the health care law was being debated in Congress. Missing [...]

Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) — Individuals shopping for affordable Health Insurance in North Carolina now have an easier way to find the right coverage with the launch new ervices..
The site, managed by leading North Carolina Health InsuranceAgency, Southeast Insurance Solutions, Inc provides customers easy access to all of the information they need to make an informed [...]

By Jim Small-  The Arizona Legislature has taken the first step to repeal cuts to health care programs in order to comply with the federal health care law and avoid losing nearly $8 billion in federal funding. The House Health and Human Services Committee approved a strike-everything amendment to S1043 in a special hearing this [...]

PRINCETON, N.J.—Munich Reinsurance America Inc. has placed a catastrophe bond to cover two North Carolina insurance groups’ hurricane exposures, Standard & Poor’s Corp. said Monday.
The bond, issued by Cayman Islands-based special-purpose vehicle Johnston Re Ltd., was placed on behalf of two North Carolina nonprofits that have insurance companies as members: the North Carolina Joint Underwriting [...]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a notice to Aetna Insurance Company of its intent to inflict transitional authorize to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries continue to have access to prescription drugs under Medicare’s requirement.
The midway sanctions, which will prevent Aetna from marketing to and enrolling new beneficiary, will be effective onwards. It will [...]

The controversial health insurance reform debate heated up on Wednesday as a bipartisan group of congressmen opposed to abortion promised to battle any bill that fails to eliminate the procedure from the extent of government-defined benefits. The group squabbled that, under the present version of the House leadership’s bill, most Americans eventually would be required to [...]