Managers of Community Health Alliance Mutual Insurance Company, a Tennessee carrier founded with $73 million in loans from the federal Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (CO-OP) program, have received state permission to put the company in a runoff process.
Insurance agents and brokers are struggling to get answers to a question they're just learning how to ask: How many health carriers are suffering serious problems as a result of the risk corridors program funding gap?
Managers of Kentucky Health Cooperative Inc., a nonprofit, member-owned health insurer based in Louisville, say the company will shut down at the end of the year.
Ben Nelson, the chief executive officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), will give up that job at the end of January, when his contract expires, the group announced.
A bill that would change a small-group definition provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), sailed through the Senate last Thursday.
Gaps between what providers bill privately insured out-of-network (OON) patients and what they bill Medicare enrollees reveal that those in the South are hiking up costs for emergency and critical care.
A quick review of public health insurance exchange plan prices suggests that the provider-owned plans may charge more for coverage than other plans charge, according to HealthPocket.