Kreg Weigand has been named general auditor and a senior vice president by the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the Federal Reserve System, the nations central bank. The Federal Reserve Bank of…
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The following information was released by the Colorado Senate Democrats:. SB26-178 will limit health insurance rate increases and reduce the number of Coloradans who could lose their health insurance coverage due to Congress' continued refusal to extend enhanced premium tax credits. We need this law because of Congress' refusal to extend premium tax…
Cuts to federal subsidies for health insurance are driving people across the country to drop plans they bought through the Affordable Care Act marketplace– but not in Texas. The difference in Texas seems to be a bipartisan law passed in 2021 that gives the state's Department of Insurance the power to limit how much insurance companies raise rates on certain…
Democrats Jane Kim and Ben Allen, with more than three-quarters of the votes counted in the race for California insurance commissioner, jumped ahead in initial counts of the vote-by-mail ballots on Tuesday night and continued to hold a sizeable lead over opponents as results were updated after polls closed at 8 p.m.. Bernie Sanders in a statewide election for…
Two Democrats, a former San Francisco supervisor and Los Angeles state lawmaker, were leading the primary race for California insurance commisioner, according to initial returns released Tuesday night. Republican Stacy Korsgaden, an insurance broker from San Luis Obispo County, was in third with 16%. The ultimate winning candidate will lead the California…
Democrats Jane Kim and Ben Allen are leading early in the race for California insurance commissioner, initial counts of the vote by mail ballots showed Tuesday night, shortly after polls closed at 8 p.m.. The election has become a bit of a high-profile contest, where a range of policy ideas were floated in the primary, as increasingly frequent disasters have…
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…
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…
