Connecticut lawmakers were urged Tuesday to consider ways to possibly avoid or mitigate any future contract impasses between insurance companies and health care systems, like the seven-week dispute between Hartford HealthCare and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield that affected tens of thousands of residents.
Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade recently announced that U.S. veterans applying for insurance licenses are eligible to be reimbursed for licensing exam fees.
A Stamford dentist was recently sentenced to one year in prison for defrauding insurance companies.
Preliminary loss estimates for Hurricane Irma is estimated to be between $42.5 billion and $65 billion (excluding uninsured commercial losses), according to a report released today from CoreLogic, a global property information company.
Business owners who are trying to get back on track after hurricanes Harvey and Irma now face a different sort of challenge: trying to recoup lost income from their insurers.
The Connecticut Insurance Department has released its actuarially justified rate determinations on health insurance companies’ rate requests for the 2018 coverage year.
The Connecticut Insurance Department recovered $4 million for Connecticut consumers and taxpayers in the first half of 2017.
The CEO of Connecticut’s health insurance exchange is warning that the two remaining insurers offering individual plans could leave Access Health CT this fall.
The suit alleges that Dr. Ramil Mansourov billed Connecticut’s Medicaid program for millions of dollars in services that were never provided to his Medicaid patients and further defrauded the program by falsifying his income information in order to obtain Medicaid benefits for himself and his two children.
A Bristol woman was recently convicted of defrauding the Medicaid program.
Aetna announced Wednesday that it is in negotiations to move its headquarters out of Connecticut’s capital, where it has been based for almost two centuries.
Hartford-based insurance provider Aetna’s third-quarter earnings rose nearly 8 percent to top Wall Street forecasts, as growing government business and cost cutting countered higher costs from the health insurer’s Affordable Care Act coverage.
“When I graduated college, I said I would do anything at all, but sell insurance,” Robert Kerzner said. But as luck would have it, the Waterbury native landed his first job selling life insurance for The Hartford. He parlayed that into a 30-year career in the insurance industry, and when he retired young, at the age of 52, he knew he wanted to leverage his experience into a second career. That’s how he wound up at the Windsor-headquartered research firm LIMRA.
