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NewsSPOTLIGHT: WellPoint fights back against new rescission allegations
WellPoint Inc. is fighting mad about a news report that the company conducts targeted rescissions of policyholders with breast cancer and has already forced a partial rewrite for factual errors. On Read more...
Insurance company knowingly engaged in rescission efforts against HIV patients, court finds
In upholding a South Carolina county court's ruling from 2004 that insurance company Fortis (now known as Assurant Health) wrongly terminated an HIV patient's health insurance, the state's Supreme Read more...
California poised to pass tough anti-rescission bill
It looks like the state of California will pass a tough bill banning health plans from retroactively canceling consumer policies for alleged misstatements in their applications. The practice, known Read more...
Blue Shield of California wins recission ruling
Over the past couple of years, California health insurance plans have been getting their clocks cleaned over rescissions of individual health insurance policies. Largely, courts and state agencies Read more...
Health Net will pay $1.95 million in recession suit
Marking another landmark in a titanic struggle between health plans, providers and consumers over the right to cancel policies, Health Net has agreed to pay $1.95 million to California hospitals to Read more...
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...
CA governor vetoes bill banning some health policy cancellations
After years of controversy, in which the California's Department of Managed Health Care has struggled to stop health plans from retroactively canceling policies, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has 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...
WellPoint loses money for Q2, but still pleases investors
Giant health plan WellPoint had what most financial types would consider a tough second quarter, with earnings falling 10 percent and its overall profit predictions for 2008 falling. Still, given Read more...
CA Blue plans will pay $13M in fines over cancellations
Two of the state of California's largest health plans have agreed to pay a combined total of $13 million in fines related to their practice of rescinding policies for members after those members Read more...
| Press ReleasesPriority Health Joins Call for Insurers to Cease Rescission PracticesGRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Priority Health President & CEO Kimberly K. Horn today commended the call for the insurance industry to immediately cease rescinding health care coverage. Read more >> HHS Secretary Sebelius, HHS Director of the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight and American Cancer SocWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HHS Secretary Sebelius, Jay Angoff, director of the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, and Keysha Brooks Coley, the director of Federal Relations Read more >> HHS Secretary Sebelius, HHS Director of the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight and American Cancer SocWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HHS Secretary Sebelius, Jay Angoff, director of the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, and Keysha Brooks Coley, the director of Federal Relations Read more >> CIGNA to Implement Federal Rescission Reforms on May 1PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CIGNA (NYSE:CI) today announced that it would voluntarily implement federal rescission reforms on May 1, well ahead of the September 23 deadline. CIGNA's business Read more >> HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on WellPoint’s Decision to Ban Rescissions in Advance of the Affordable Care Act’s RequireWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released the following statement today on WellPoint’s announcement that it intends to end Read more >> |
