Thousands of state residents currently receiving care in Minnesota through the state-subidized MinnesotaCare program could be moved into state exchanges as a part of national healthcare reform. Howeve…
Still reeling from a weak job market, the insurance industry in the Tristate is looking under every stone for cost controls and efficiencies. Carriers still challenged in growing their commercial busi…
Job losses continued to drag down Florida’s commercial insurance market in 2010, with the self-insured rolls taking the largest hit, likely reflecting layoffs and attrition in the state’s biggest self…
The commercial healthcare segment is consolidating in the Heartland, where dominant Blue Cross plans hold their solid top positions, and players such as Coventry are buying up regional plans in hopes…
Michigan's economy has begun to recover from its bottom, but health plan purchasers are only coming back into the market cautiously. Demand is up for products that will yield better medical outcom…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Health reform could completely change the landscape of Texas healthcare, bringing new people into the system while challenging smaller plans to meet requirements on their spending on medical care. Med…
Healthcare reform will be less of a game-changer in the TriState, at least for New York and New Jersey, which already ban medical underwriting, exert some controls over insurer rates and benefit plans…
Individual states are on the frontline for implementing the recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A few of the first pieces of that landmark legislation include the implementatio…
Value-based insurance designs, medical homes and Medicaid reform, as well as the federal health reform law, are affecting the healthcare landscape in Georgia, Louisiana and Alabama. Large employers in…
The practice known as “academic detailing,” which aims to provide physicians with a more complete, evidence-based, and presumably unbiased education about what specific drugs will do, has sp…