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California's policy-cancellation war
This year the California health insurance industry fought an entrenched battle with regulators over the right to cancel individual policies--even retroactively--whenever they saw fit. The regulators... Read more...
L.A. city attorney says CA health insurer made illegal settlement offer
Anthem Blue Cross of California has apparently gotten itself into further legal problems while trying to extricate itself from previous ones. The insurance company, which was previously accused of... Read more...
CA residents to get renewed health coverage
About 3,400 California consumers whose individual policies were improperly revoked will soon get invitations to rejoin their health plan. The letters are being sent out as part of a batch of... Read more...
CA insurers spent less than 85 percent of revenue on care
A new report by the California Medical Association concludes that nine of the state's major health plans spent less than 85 percent of their revenue on medical care for their beneficiaries, a level... Read more...
WellPoint profits fall 25 percent during first quarter
Yesterday it was UnitedHealth Group in the hot seat, and today it's WellPoint. The health... Read more...
With cancellations, CA health plans show suicidal persistence
I've said this before, but heaven help me, I feel I need to say it again: What on earth... Read more...
CA regulators begin broad review of policy cancellations
In a move that could cost health insurers untold dollars, and possibly change the dynamics of the individual coverage market, the California Department of Managed Health Care has begun reviewing... Read more...
Group of hospitals joins BC of CA P4P program
A group of 23 hospitals have joined Blue Cross of California's new inpatient pay-for-performance program, which is structured to give the facilities adjustments to their inpatient fixed-payment... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: HHS plans surprise HIPAA audits of hospitals; LA city attorney asks Blue Cross of CA to prove claims; and much more
> HHS is planning some surprise HIPAA audits of hospitals, with a special focus on whether their IT infrastructures are secure enough. Read more...
Health plan industry addressing policy cancellations
Hoping to get some control of a situation that is rapidly deteriorating into a series of regulatory fines, lawsuits and heinously bad PR, the health-insurance industry is mounting an initiative to... Read more...
