Jim Douglas and Lisa Ventriss, president emerita of the Vermont Business Roundtable. They are co-chairs of the VT Healthcare 911 Leadership Council. In that same period, Vermont went from middle-of-the-pack health insurance costs to the most expensive health insurance premiums in the country.
North CarolinaInsurance Commissioner Mike Causey today announced the arrest of Melissa Lynn Mountzoures, 54, of 5517 Cedar Lake Road, Jonesville. Special agents with the North Carolina Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Division accuse Mountzoures ofcreating multiple fraudulent receipts for doctors' visits that did not occur and…
The following information was released by the American Diabetes Association:. The American Diabetes Association applauds Hawaii Governor Josh Green for signing SB 3045 into law, a significant step toward expanding access to continuous glucose monitors for people living with diabetes across Hawai'i. "The ADA applauds Governor Green and the Hawai'i…
Iranian National residing in Coos Bay pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. CDTG operates out of Coos Bay, Brookings, Reedsport, Florence, and Roseburg, Oregon. He and his employees overcharged the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Veteran's Health Administration, and numerous private insurance companies for…
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla.— The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office is warning of a rise in a type of a phone scam aimed at targeting the loved ones of those in custody. Families urge Florida gubernatorial candidates to repeal' Free Kill' law. The man pretending to be a deputy asked them to bring the bail money, approximately $2,000, to a Bitcoin ATM nearby.
Louisiana military members eligible for a 25% discount on the liability portion of their auto insurance premiums will no longer have to reapply every year under a regulatory change announced this week by the Louisiana Department of Insurance. The change applies to active-duty military personnel stationed in Louisiana, military reservists based in the…
The following information was released by the office of Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego:. WASHINGTON Today, Senator and Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Ruben Gallego, and 19 other members of Congress sent letters to USAA, State Farm, Progressive, Liberty Mutual, Farmers, and Allstate requesting information on the usage of…
The following information was released by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners:. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has released a first-of-its-kind analysis of homeowners insurance market trends based on seven years of Market Conduct Annual Statement data collected by state insurance departments.
The following information was released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York:. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York today announced the forthcoming launch of a pilot survey exploring lending trends in the U.S. private credit direct lending market. After rapid growth in recent years, the U.S. direct lending market is…
The following information was released by the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance:. Be Aware of Alternative Health Insurance Plans. Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin Offic e of the Commissioner of Insurance advises Wisconsinites to use caution when considering the purchase of alternatives to comprehensive health insurance plans.
Congresswoman Ashley Hinson introduced the Health Insurance Transparency for Patients Act, legislation to expose how often health insurance companies deny or delay basic care and give patients the information they need to choose a health plan that actually works for their families. Iowa hospitals publicly report a significant amount of information…
AM Best expects insured losses from the ongoing wildfires in and around Spokane, WA, to be considerable, with more-concentrated individual insurers likely to be more negatively impacted. “In the longer term, depending on the magnitude of the insured losses, primary insurers with a concentration of their homeowners’ or commercial property portfolio in areas…
Minneapolis- based nonprofit UCare announced in November it would be closing after mispricing coverage for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries and suffering big losses in running Medicaid health plans under contract with the state of Minnesota. Some UCare employees kept working this year to help enrollees shift insurance to Medica, a rival health insurer…
Prior to the bill signings, Illinois was one of only two states, with Wyoming, that did not exercise regulatory control over insurance rates. The new laws come a little more than a year after Illinois- based State Farm announced it was raising homeowners insurance rates an average 27.2% statewide. In addition, State Farm recently noted that auto insurance rates…
Maybe you’ ve seen Republican Senate nominee Ashley Hinson’ s TV ad. “Ashley Hinson is working to eliminate the death tax, so I don’ t have to sell our home in Aspen or our French vineyard. Considering an estate inherited by a couple has to be worth more than $30 million, or $15 million for an individual, to trigger any inheritance tax, the spawn of a top hedge fund manager is…
Two years ago, California hit a milestone decades in the making: Nearly every person in the state qualified for health insurance, regardless of immigration status and income, pushing the state's insured rate to a record 95%. Analysis at the UC Berkeley Labor Center and UCLA Center for Health Policy Research project California's uninsured rate could nearly…
A fender-bender at a busy Citrus County intersection can scramble your memory in seconds. Knowing exactly what to do after a car accident in Florida protects you before that first insurance call ever comes in. Should you call 911 or law enforcement after a crash in Florida?
