Health insurance executives have faced various regulatory challenges since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. Payers have had to participate in new health insurance...
Healthcare payers are being instructed to offer standardized plan and benefit designs as the federally facilitated health insurance marketplace is working to improve consumers’ ability to...
While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has decreased uninsurance rates to historically low levels, the healthcare law also led to higher premium costs and insurance rates among health...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has significantly improved healthcare coverage and access throughout the country, but there are still some obstacles remaining to ensuring that every...
The national health payer Aetna may have chosen to reduce its participation in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges due to the Department of Justice’s decision to pursue a...
The Department of Vermont Health Access went against federal laws when it failed to allocate funds to establishment grants in order to create a public health insurance marketplace, the Office of the...
A total of five senators and multiple organizations are looking to create a public option for healthcare coverage to be available among all Americans purchasing insurance through the Affordable Care...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in a press release earlier this week that it will be providing $63 million in grants to both new and older organizations returning to...
More and more research is pointing at the fact that consumers on the health insurance exchanges are being left with fewer health plan issuers. Part of this may be due to health payers such as...
A hefty number of health insurance companies have been dropping out of the Affordable Care Act’s state exchanges in recent months including Humana, Aetna, and UnitedHealthcare. These actions...
With more health payers such as UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and Aetna dropping out of a number of state health insurance exchanges, it is useful to analyze the differences of healthcare coverage between...
During the summer of 2015, Aetna and Humana, as well as Anthem and Cigna, started a merger process that would reduce four of the nation’s largest insurers down to just two. If the mergers are successful, only three payers would...
The public health insurance marketplace created through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may have fewer and fewer health plans participating in the coming years since a number of major insurers have...
The ACA health insurance exchanges are facing greater risk now that a number of healthcare payers have decided to drop out of the marketplace. UnitedHealthcare was the first to announce its departure...
With a number of healthcare payers including UnitedHealthcare and Aetna dropping out of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplace, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
More and more payers are slowly dropping out of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges. Earlier this year, UnitedHealth formally announced the decision to discontinue selling plans...
The health insurance market seems to be heading toward more and more consolidation as the major payers Humana and Aetna along with Cigna and Anthem seem to be bent on merging, which would essentially...
With many health payers experiencing significant challenges while operating through the health insurance exchanges and adhering to various provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,...
As previously reported, the major health payer Aetna is leaving the majority of health insurance exchanges it is currently operating in. Some critics have pointed at the failure of the Affordable Care...
The latest news coming from the major health payer Aetna is its move to drop out of the majority of the health insurance exchanges it had been participating in this year. According to a press release...
