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News'Medical mill' billing scams on the rise
Excessive billing and treatment by fraudulent 'medical mills' has jumped a whopping 42 percent in New York, resulting in increased insurance rates, according to the New York Alliance Against Read more...
Limited competition puts insurers in the driver seat
Competition is all but a fading memory in many U.S. health insurance markets, allowing many insurers both to employ aggressive pricing strategies and to cut existing customers to boost profit Read more...
Health insurer financial records subpoenaed in rate hike probe
The seven largest health insurance companies in California have until March 8 to deliver subpoenaed financial records and other documents to the state Attorney General Jerry Brown. The records will Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: WellPoint's Braly calls raised premiums 'prudent'
WellPoint president Angela Braly told a Congressional committee yesterday that the recent rise in premium hikes by Anthem Blue Cross, a WellPoint subsidiary, was not something she or the company Read more...
Anthem Blue Cross takes a grilling in Calif., plans to push forward with rate hikes
After undergoing a tough grilling by California lawmakers this week, Wellpoint's Anthem Blue Cross says it California-based premium increases of up to 39 percent are fair and legal, and plans to make Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Anthem Blue Cross in hot water for more than 700 state violations
The fun continues for California health insurer Anthem Blue Cross. After being highly scrutinized for announcing plans to hike premium rates for some members by as much as 39 percent, the insurer now Read more...
Feds seek oversight of insurers' rate increases
Zeroing in on public outrage about planned double-digit rate hikes by Anthem Blue Cross and other health insurers, the Obama administration wants the federal government to have the power to conduct Read more...
Furor, demand for answers, spreads over rising healthcare premiums
Anthem Blue Cross isn't the only one drawing criticism for its rate increases. With U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius demanding public justification for premium hikes of Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Congress may limit insurers' abilities to charge higher premiums to older patients
Historically, two people with the same gender, activity level and health status could expect to pay dramatically different insurance rates if their ages were different, with the younger person Read more...
| Press ReleasesSacramento Healthcare Workers Launch Initiative Drive to End Hospital Price GougingCaregivers and Community Leaders Start Signature Collection Outside of Sutter General SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fed up with outrageous hospital prices like $21 for a single aspirin, $86 Read more >> Affordable Care Act grants provide $3,531,085 to help fight health insurance premium hikes in IllinoisHHS releases new report showing how rate review protects consumers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced Read more >> Affordable Care Act grants provide $4,091,507 to help fight health insurance premium hikes in OhioHHS releases new report showing how rate review protects consumers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced Read more >> Affordable Care Act grants provide $3,000,000 to help fight health insurance premium hikes in New MexicoHHS releases new report showing how rate review protects consumers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced Read more >> Affordable Care Act grants provide $3,804,045 to help fight health insurance premium hikes in VermontHHS releases new report showing how rate review protects consumers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced Read more >> |
