The Consumer Oriented and Operated Program (CO-OP) plans might have a chance to survive, according to Jordan Battani.

Washington state has already started posting information about individual and small group rate change requests, and Wisconsin is giving insurers advice about how to comply with its new rate change disclosure requirements.

Efforts by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make the new health insurance exchange program as flexible as possible for the states could hurt health insurers.

The Employers Council on Flexible Compensation (ECFC) is asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to clarify where flexible savings arrangements (FSAs) fit in with the new Form W-2 health benefits reporting requirements.

Aetna Inc. has agreed to increase rates for 94,000 California small group plan enrollees just 1.1%, rather than 4%.

Disability insurers seem to be making more use of guaranteed standard issue (GSI) programs at the worksite.

The Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) says two new exposure drafts could give the public more information about how state and local government pension plans are really doing.

The biggest news emerging from the saga of the federal mini med annual benefit limit waiver program may be just how many U.S. residents have mini med coverage.