The attorney general in Massachusetts is suing UnitedHealthcare, alleging in the lawsuit that the Minnetonka-based health insurance giant pocketed millions by overstating the health risks of lower-income residents enrolled in a health plan for Medicaid beneficiaries. But the Massachusetts attorney general alleges the misrepresentations resulted…
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2026 JUN 02– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily– Research findings on Economics are discussed in a new report. According to news originating from Hangzhou, People’ s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated,“ In China’ s open market operations, the central bank selects a group of commercial banks each year to serve…
Washington's rural counties saw the largest drops in insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act after the Republican-controlled Congress failed to extend subsidies that helped consumers afford the plans. State officials estimated last year that as many as 80,000 people could forgo coverage with Congress not extending tax credits for these…
How much does jewelry insurance cost in 2026? Standard jewelry insurance will cost about 1%-3% of your jewelry's appraised value per year, while some providers offer a lower range of rates costing 0.5%-1.5% of the appraised value per year. As such, if you were to calculate the cost of jewelry insurance for, say, a $10,000 engagement ring, you'd find that your rates…
An initial wellness exam for the state's primary care landscape published by the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner on Monday found fewer Rhode Islanders have a personal doctor they can turn to for non-urgent health concerns compared with a decade earlier. The 31- page report, which relies on 2024 insurance claims data, marks the first in what Health…
2026 JUN 02– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a trademark application has been made for“ YOUR WHOLE HEALTH IS OUR WHOLE POINT” by Anita B. Polott Morgan, Lewis& Bockius LLP, representing Elevance Health, Inc. This application was made available to the…
MedeAnalytics, the healthcare performance improvement company, announced today that it has joined AHIP, a national trade association representing the health insurance industry, as an affiliate organization member. “As health plans face continuing pressure to manage quality, utilization, and cost more effectively, and do so more efficiently, the ability to…
A lawsuit filed by state prosecutors last week accuses UnitedHealthcare of defrauding the state of Massachusetts of at least $100 million through a Medicaid fraud scheme. The Massachusetts Attorney General’ s Office filed the lawsuit against the health insurance giant on May 29 in Suffolk County Superior Court. Our investigation found that…
2026 JUN 02– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Information Technology Business Daily– Researchers detail new data in Opioids. According to news originating from Goyang, South Korea, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated,“ Although opioids primarily act on the central nervous system, they also affect the cardiovascular system. Our news journalists…
In his eight years as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell faced a variety of economic challenges, from double-digit unemployment during the pandemic to the highest inflation in four decades. But Powell's tenure may be best remembered for the way he stood up to political pressure from President Trump. SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE: Jerome Powell was presented…
Minnesota is set to become the latest state to restrict how and when insurance companies can use artificial intelligence. A bill that would prohibit health insurers from making prior authorization decisions solely on the basis of AI recommendations passed the state's House of Representatives and Senate by wide margins on May 16 and 17, respectively.
Gregory W. Meeks and Andrew Garbarino introduced the bipartisan Community Flood Resilience Act to help communities better prepare for and recover from flooding by allowing certain Federal Emergency Management Agency mitigation grant funds to be used for community-based flood insurance coverage. However, NFIP coverage is limited and generally capped…
Iowa patients will soon no longer need to wonder if their health insurance companies will approve certain care their doctors recommend. Kim Reynolds recently signed a bill banning prior authorizations for cancer screenings and emergency care. Some healthcare providers say House File 2635, signed into law May 13, is a way to remove some red tape that can delay…
Iowa has a caregiver crisis that is escalating even faster than its population is graying: Cases of dependent adult abuse, increasing for decades, have skyrocketed in the last five years, with a growing number of people found by the state to be abusive and charged criminally. The findings, documented in statistics Watchdog obtained under Iowa's open records law,…
A jury found a 41- year-old man guilty of arson and criminal mischief and sentenced him to 33 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections last week, May 25-29. The building was insured by Federated Mutual Insurance Company for $330,000, with an additional $255,000 coverage for business and personal property. Investigator Colin Lillard of the Dover…
What better place to see a giant picture of a lawyer than Interstate 75 in Atlanta? That quantity-over-quality approach is also attractive to doctors and funders who are now in the middle of a series of court fights in Georgia. In one case, lawyers for a trucking company’ s insurers forced funder Omni Healthcare to turn over contracts with Georgia medical clinics…
Editor's note: The following was written by David Oppedahl and Elizabeth Kepner with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for the May AgLetter. Demand to purchase farmland was lower in the three- to six-month period ending with March 2026 than in the same period ending with March 2025. For 2026, average annual cash rents for farmland were up 2% in Indiana, but down…
AM Best has assigned a Performance Assessment of PA-1 to Ryan Specialty Pte. Limited. The outlook assigned to the assessment is stable. In AM Best’ s view, the nine affiliated companies, which include 40 managing general underwriters, operate within a unified governance and systems framework and are considered strategically and financially integral to RSUM’ s…
Representatives for Tacoma- based MultiCare Health System and Mountlake Terrace- based Premera Blue Cross have announced that insurance-contract talks have been extended. The News Tribune reported in April that MultiCare and Premera had yet to reach new contract terms following a termination notice from MultiCare sent late last year to the insurer, which…
