The top California insurance regulator and a major player in the state's health insurance market are jousting over small-group rate increases.
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said Thursday that Anthem Blue Cross Life and Health Insurance Company and Anthem Blue Cross of California — units of WellPoint Inc.– have been imposing unreasonable rate increases.
The increases are so high and so frequent that managers of the state's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act small-business exchange should could keep WellPoint plans off the small-group exchange plan menu, Jones said both at a press conference and in a widely distributed press release.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
