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Health Insurance Costs Are Taking Biggest Jumps in Years

WEBHealth-insurance costs are climbing at the steepest rate in years, walloping businesses and their workers. Costs for employer coverage are expected to surge …

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Change Healthcare Cyberattack Prompts U.S. Legislative Proposal …

WEBIn the wake of the Change Healthcare cyberattack, a U.S. senator has introduced legislation allowing for advance and accelerated payment to impacted health …

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Health Insurers Must Streamline Prior Authorization Decisions, …

WEBThe Biden administration on Wednesday finalized requirements to streamline the process for doctors and patients seeking health insurance approval for medical care …

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9 in 10 Employers Plan to Change Health and Wellbeing Vendors …

WEBIn a move to address a broad range of their employees’ need, most U.S. employers are making changes to their vendor partnerships that provide healthcare and …

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House Votes to Stop New Healthcare Law from Funding Insurance …

WEBHouse Republicans on Tuesday voted to disrupt the flow of federal dollars for health insurance exchanges, an integral part of the new healthcare law to expand …

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Climate Change Has Hit Home Insurance. Is Health Insurance Next

WEBClimate change is making house insurance more expensive and harder to get. Health insurance could be next, as research shows extreme heat and wildfires are …

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Texas Lawsuit Challenges ACA's Preventive Health Services …

WEBA key component of the Affordable Care Act is in jeopardy, as a federal lawsuit in Texas challenges the law’s requirement that most insurers cover a variety of …

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Aon Private Health Insurance Exchanges Top 1.5 Million Members

WEBAon plc, a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, reports that its private health insurance exchanges …

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Senators Call for Investigation of Health Insurers’ Role in Driving …

WEBA pair of U.S. senators called on the federal government to investigate health insurers that are paying high prices for generic drugs for serious diseases like …

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U.S. Employer Medical Costs Projected to Increase 5% Next Year: …

WEBBudgeted health care costs for clients increased to an average of $12,792 per employee in 2021, an increase of 5.2 percent from 2020. The analysis uses the …

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Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper …

WEBAs part of his push for the Affordable Care Act in 2009, President Obama came to Central High School to laud this community as a model of better, cheaper …

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Cigna Sells Medicare Business to Health Care Service Corp. for $3.3

WEBCigna Group has agreed to sell its Medicare business to Health Care Service Corp. for $3.3 billion. Under the terms, HCSC would pay cash for Cigna’s …

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Data Firm Multiplan Helps Health Insurers Make More with Out-of …

WEBIn 2009, a woman from Yonkers, N.Y., became a symbol of patients’ outrage and the promise of change. Mary Reinbold Jerome had been diagnosed with ovarian …

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A Big Health Insurer Is Ripping Up the Playbook on Drug Pricing

WEBA major health insurer says it will jettison the complicated system that Americans use to pay for drugs, and create something that aims to be better, with …

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Aon Sells Aquiline and the Aon Retiree Health Exchange™ …

WEBAon plc, a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, today announced the firm has signed definitive …

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Florida’s New Tort Reform Affects Admissibility of Evidence and …

WEBA major legislative package, House Bill 837 (companion to Senate Bill 236) expected to be signed into law by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis this week, would …

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Aetna to Purchase Coventry Health Care

WEBAetna and Coventry Health Care, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Aetna will acquire Coventry in a …

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J&J to Pay at Least $2.5 Billion to Settle Hip Lawsuits

WEBIn its latest multibillion-dollar legal settlement, Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay at least $2.5 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits filed by patients who …

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UnitedHealth Confirms Ransomware Gang Behind Change …

WEBAmerican health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group has confirmed a ransomware attack on its health tech subsidiary Change Healthcare, which continues to …

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Chubb Appoints New Senior Leadership for Real Estate

WEBChubb today announced the appointment of Andrew Hurley as Executive Vice President, Real Estate & Hospitality Industry Practice Leader. In this role, Mr. …

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Administration Imposes Sweeping Limits on Federal Actions …

WEBThe Trump administration has adopted new limits on the use of “guidance documents” that federal agencies have issued on almost every conceivable subject, an …

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