Connecticut’s small group fully insured health insurance market is losing another major insurer. Farmington-based ConnectiCare, which is owned by New York’s EmblemHealth, emailed a letter to brokers Monday afternoon, notifying them the company “has made the difficult decision to withdraw from the Connecticut fully insured, small group market,” according to a copy of the email obtained by the Hartford Business Journal.
Blindness and vision loss are among the top 10 disabilities among adults in the United States. But a new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests people with impaired vision aren’t getting the health care they need.
Seventy people came to Indianapolis from across the country and risked arrest at Elevance Health headquarters recently. I was one of them. We were there for a simple reason: Everyone needs health care, and private insurers like Elevance make a killing by denying us care when we need it most.
Before Tuesday, it was unclear if people insured through UnitedHealthcare would still be able to receive health care from Providence physicians and hospitals, but a spokesperson for UnitedHealthcare says patients will have to wonder no more.
North Dakota Health and Human Services has partnered with the North Dakota Hospital Association and other organizations to raise awareness about the life-changing impacts Medicaid has on people who qualify for the program.
In recent years, billions of dollars in losses have plunged the long-term care insurance industry into financial crisis, prompting some of the largest insurers to cease writing individual policies.