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Insurance company Kaiser Permanente offers cash to Colorado adults for losing weightFriday, December 30th, 2011
(Associated Press) DENVER - Insurance company Kaiser Permanente Colorado is offering cash to Coloradans to lose weight and keep it off. Companies have been making similar offers to their employees for years as a way to reduce obesity in the workplace and lower health costs, but Kaiser is taking ...
Preventive care: It’s free, except when it’s notWednesday, December 28th, 2011
CHICAGO – Bill Dunphy thought his colonoscopy would be free. His insurance company told him it would be covered 100 percent, with no copayment from him and no charge against his deductible. The nation's 1-year-old health law requires most insurance plans to cover all costs for preventive care including ...
State efforts put more children on health insurance rolls, despite economic downturnWednesday, December 28th, 2011
Publicly funded programs have enabled 1.2 million more children to gain health insurance since 2008 — at least in part due to extra work by many states to ensure that more of the children who are eligible for the programs are actually signed up, Obama administration officials plan to announce ...
A Piecemeal Approach to Health Law in StatesWednesday, December 21st, 2011
The Obama administration’s surprise announcement Friday that it planned to give states broad leeway to pick the benefits offered under the federal health care law offers yet another example of a gradualist approach to carrying out its signal domestic policy achievement. Facing vociferous Republican opposition, a looming Supreme Court ...
Health insurance providers told to repay Michigan consumersTuesday, December 20th, 2011
An estimated 340,000 Michigan consumers who buy their own health insurance could get as much as $89 million in rebates over the next three years following a ruling Monday by federal health regulators that turned down the state's request to be exempted from new health reform requirements. Starting in ...
Final Rules Set for Insurers on Spending RatiosThursday, December 15th, 2011
If an insurance company is not spending $4 of every $5 of a consumer’s premium on medical care, a health plan subscriber will not only get a rebate beginning next year, but it will be tax free, according to final rules out on so-called medical-loss ratios that are part of ...
Public Health Insurance Coverage For Infants Is More Comprehensive And Costs LessTuesday, December 13th, 2011
In the fierce national debate over a new federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, it's widely assumed that private health insurance can do a better job than the public insurance funded by the U.S. government. But a first-of-its-kind analysis of newly available government ...
Coverage for gender surgery jumps; More major insurers paying for sex transformation proceduresThursday, December 8th, 2011
Last year, 85 companies had insurance plans that paid for sex transformation surgeries, and only 49 did in 2009. The number of major U.S. companies covering the cost of gender reassignment surgery for transgender workers has more than doubled in the past year, according to a new scorecard compiled ...
Labor Department Seeks Tougher Rules on ‘Multiple-Employer’ PlansWednesday, December 7th, 2011
Federal officials hope to crack down more effectively on operators of “multiple employer” health plans that have defrauded small businesses and their workers of hundreds of millions of dollars, often leaving them stuck with unpaid medical bills, according to new rules proposed Monday by the Obama administration under the health ...
Most U.S. insurers met spending limits under lawFriday, December 2nd, 2011
(Reuters)—Most U.S. health insurers last year would have satisfied the much-disputed spending rules under President Barack Obama's health care reform, according to a new report by a congressional watchdog agency. The rules require insurers such as Aetna Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Inc. to spend most of customers' premium payments ...
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