Taro Health, Maine’s newest health insurance provider to offer plans on the ACA Marketplace, announced a successful first enrollment season and plans to expand faster for small group health insurance throughout 2023, which businesses can continue to enroll in throughout the year.
As health-insurance cooperatives created by “Obamacare” collapsed like dominoes in the mid-2010s, the Montana co-op faced its own multimillion-dollar chasm, created by an obscure political deal in Washington, D.C.
UMR Inc. has joined Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC in protesting the decision by the State Health Plan’s board of trustees to choose Aetna for its 2025-27 contract for third-party administrative services.
Illinois has fined health insurance company Quartz $500,000 for failing to cover substance use disorder and mental health treatments at adequate levels. Quartz sells health insurance plans on the Affordable Care Act exchange at healthcare.gov, and off the exchange, in parts of northwestern Illinois.
Federal authorities are probing a massive Illinois contract that provides health care to 36,700 foster children in response to an investigation by the Illinois Answers Project published by the Chicago Sun-Times in November.
Earlier this month, when lawmakers were still preparing to come to Charleston for the legislative session, WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital dropped a bombshell: it would stop taking the state’s public employees’ health insurance.