Insurers face two critical deadlines in September, by which time it appears increasingly unlikely they will have clarity on a number of key issues, including whether the federal government will continue funding key ObamaCare subsidies.
Health-insurance plans grandfathered into the federal Affordable Care Act will not be provided by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina in 2018, the insurer confirmed in a blog post. About 50,000 individuals in the non-group category will be affected statewide.
Despite having more financial “skin in the game” than ever, many consumers don’t make any attempt to compare prices for health care services, a newly released study found.In a survey of nearly 3,000 adults younger than 65, about half of the roughly 1,900 who said they...
Thousands of North Carolina residents have been exempt from the Affordable Care Act and got to keep their old health insurance, paying significantly less for their coverage than those insured under the ACA. But that’s about to come to an end for 50,000 customers of Blue...
Most states would let insurers compensate for the termination of payments by raising premiums substantially for silver plans offered through the marketplaces, the Congressional Budget Office said.
Apple and Aetna held a series of secret discussions last week to bring Apple's health and fitness-tracking smartwatch to millions more people connected to Aetna, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The Trump administration is giving health insurance companies more time to calculate price increases for 2018 because of uncertainty caused by the president’s threat to cut off crucial subsidies paid to insurers on behalf of millions of low-income people.
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield announced that they will no longer offer individual health insurance plans in Virginia, beginning in 2018.The company, who has recently announced departure from multiple states, explained that “the Individual market remains volatile.”...
Montana's health care co-op, one of America's few remaining alternatives to traditional health insurance, will resume accepting new enrollees Sunday after it voluntarily pulled itself from the state's insurance marketplace in December.
An unlikely coalition of liberal and conservative health-policy leaders is calling on Congress to strengthen the existing health-care law in a variety of ways to help Americans get and keep insurance. The group is urging the government, in particular, to continuing paying...
