Health Insurance News

The city of Bend says it projects $1.3 million in savings and no premium increases on its new employee health insurance plan for the upcoming plan year, which begins Aug.

Restaurant settlements and clean bills of health continue to emerge surrounding City Attorney Dennis Herrera's crackdown of San Francisco businesses' use of health care surcharges.

Health costs now surpass groceries in annual expenses for a family of four, a new report by Milliman Inc.

Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and leaders of the GOP majority in the Legislature reached a budget agreement Tuesday for next fiscal year that doesn't include an expansion of government health insurance for low income-adults and puts Michigan's unexpected surplus toward funding roads and K-12 education.

President Obama speaks on the Affordable Care Act on May 10, 2013, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

Either way, the board on Monday softened its approach, proposing cuts that would temper an 8.2 percent increase in employee insurance costs, but still requiring employees to spend more out-of-pocket for healthcare than ever before.

Ministry Health Care which operates 15 hospitals in Wisconsin, and one in Minnesota, is announcing system-wide layoffs.

Twenty-seven percent of households eligible for the new premium assistance tax credits under the Affordable Care Act, or 8.5 million people, may not be able to enroll on exchanges because they don't have access to a bank account to pay their premiums, a new study shows.

The Obama administration's quickening push to implement health care reform is likely to create success stories and debacles that differ across states, a panel of experts said Monday.

The federal government's Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan will reduce its payments to skilled nursing facilities by 50% as of June 15, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Q: I had colon cancer and have had trouble buying health insurance ever since. Under Obamacare, will insurance companies still be allowed to refuse me because of my medical history? Starting on Jan.

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Two lawmakers are pushing legislation to strip broad secrecy provisions from the state agency overseeing health care reforms in California that could shield from the public how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent, officials said Monday.

When the sun rises over the Rio Grande Valley, the cries of the urracas - black birds - perched on the tops of palm trees swell to a noisy, unavoidable cacophony.

If they were looking for definitive answers about what kinds of plans will become available on the new health insurance exchanges that are supposed to open on Oct.

State workers who smoke would have to pay $50 more per month for health insurance under a proposal by Gov.

Demonstrators gather outside the Ohio Statehouse during a rally urging state lawmakers to extend Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, Thursday, April 11, 2013, in Columbus, Ohio.

Healthcare reform is moving at full throttle to be ready for January 1st, 2014. Some people in Chicago did not even know that healthcare reform was signed into law by the current Administration.

Millions of people who rely on check-cashing stores, like this one in New York City, could run into trouble buying health insurance.

Emergency physicians are key decisionmakers for nearly half of all hospital admissions, highlighting a critical role they can play in reducing health care costs, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation.