The HealthLeaders-InterStudy Market Analyst team analyzes major developments at the nation’s publicly held health plans each quarter through their financial releases and conference call transcripts. T…
Uncertainty about the economy and the effects of health reform put a damper on the South's health insurance market. Commercial enrollment is essentially flat in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ten…
The HealthLeaders-InterStudy Market Analyst team analyzes major developments at the nation’s publicly held health plans each quarter through their financial releases and conference call transcripts. T…
The HealthLeaders-InterStudy Market Analyst team analyzes major developments at the nation’s publicly held health plans each quarter through their financial releases and conference call transcripts. T…
The HealthLeaders-InterStudy Market Analyst team analyzes major developments at the nation’s publicly held health plans each quarter through their financial releases and conference call transcripts. T…
Health plans in Massachsuetts, coming off one of their toughest years financially, are battling state regulators over premium increases, and the battle is hitting insurers' bottom lines. Maine is…
The HealthLeaders-InterStudy Market Analyst team analyzes major developments at the nation’s publicly held health plans each quarter through their financial releases and conference call transcripts. T…
Commercial health insurers in the Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio region have experienced declining enrollment due to the economic effects of employers dropping or cutting workplace-sponsored coverage. But insu…
Now that federal healthcare reform is passed, insurance companies and their regulators are turning their focus to immediate tasks, in particular setting up a high-risk pool for an estimated 5,000 indi…
Stakeholders in the healthcare industry are looking at the health reform law, planning ways to minimize losses and take advantage of opportunities. In North Carolina, federal and state high risk pools…
Tennessee health plans continued to show declining enrollment as the “jobless recovery” began in early 2010, and health plans are anticipating a renewal season that will see increasing numbe…
The early returns from a massive valued-based benefit design initiative in Kansas City have led to five new pilots nationwide. In concert with its PBM, CVS Caremark, the Kansas State Employee Health P…
Medicaid programs in the District of Columbia and Virginia are looking at ways to save money and adapt to changes mandated in the federal health reform law. The District is planning to shift the costs…
The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will, in the short run, expand coverage for young people, create new high-risk pools, shift incentives for Medicaid drug rebates and make…
Unable to reach a compromise between the House and Senate, Florida's state Legislature did not expand Medicaid Reform, which requires beneficiaries in certain counties elect to join an HMO or a Pr…