Category: insurance

So much for the idea that public exchanges would reduce health insurance distribution costs….

Executive director Ben Price is leaving the Colorado Association of Health Plans after seven years at the helm when he and industry leaders had to deal with a seismic shift in the American health care scene, CAHP announced on Friday. After his mid-June departure, Price will take over as CEO of the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting, the Littleton-based certification group for those professionals.

Dallas’s Parkland Hospital treats a lot of people without health insurance. On a November day in 1963, emergency room doctors at this county hospital frantically tried to save an American president who could not be saved.

Exact Sciences Corp. has announced expanded patient access to Cologuard as a result of several insurers now covering the test.

The dependent care provision of the Affordable Care Act allows young adults to stay on their parents’ health coverage until age 26, but racial disparities in coverage persist for young…

Protestors hold placards challenging the Affordable Care Act outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on March 4 in Washington, D.C. The court faces a momentous case on the sweeping health insurance reform law that President Barack Obama wants to leave as part of his legacy. How many politicians, aides, lobbyists, lawyers, insurance moguls, professional groups and interns — both the political and medical kind — agonized over the details in the Affordable Care Act? The number is big.

The federal health-care law has reduced the number of uninsured people by about 10 million. But challenges remain, including how to educate new enrollees about their coverage options.

Ana Gupte says Humana’s Medicare Advantage enrollees look good.

Obama administration attorneys urged a federal judge Thursday to throw out a politically charged lawsuit by House Republicans over the president’s health care law, but encountered plenty of skeptical questions. “You don’t really believe that, do you?” U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer interrupted Justice Department attorney Joel McElvain to ask in the opening moments of his argument, as he tried to assert that the House hadn’t suffered a particular injury in the case and therefore lacks any basis for suing.