More States Looking To Curb The High Cost Of Specialty Drugs

California voters will weigh in this November on a high-stakes ballot proposition intended to help control the cost of prescription drugs —...

Insurance Complaints On The Rise In North Carolina

Feb. 05--RALEIGH -- Heavy complaint volume related to payment and enrollment issues at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is putt...

Self-Employed Worry About Health Insurance Costs

Feb. 05--George Banyas is self-employed, having run a successful optometry business in Richland for the past 15 years. He and his wife have...

Cigna Profits Dip In Fourth Quarter

Feb. 05--Net profits from Cigna Corp. fell nearly 9 percent in the final quarter of 2015, from $467 million, or $1.77 per share at the end ...

Government Funds Nearly 2/3 Of U.S. Health Care

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Tax-funded expenditures accounted for 64.3 percent of U.S. health spe...

Respectable Results For 3rd ACA Sign-Up Season

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says 12.7 million people have signed up for private insurance or renewed coverage under the pres...

Insurer Land Of Lincoln Sued, Accused Of Fraud

Feb. 03--Two Land of Lincoln Health customers have sued the insurance company, alleging fraud after it dropped the University of Chicago...

N.C. Insurance Commissioner Blames ACA For Industry Woes

Feb. 03--RALEIGH -- N.C. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin this week became the latest public official to warn of the harms wreaked by t...

Cigna Reports Strong 2015 Results

Consolidated revenues for 2015 increased 8% to $37.9 billion Adjusted income from operations 1 for 2015 was $2.3 billion, or $8.66 per s...