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Health Care Costs Increase 7.3 Percent In 1 Year

Last week, Milliman released its annual Milliman Medical Index, and it shows that the average American family’s medical costs have doubled in less than nine years and increased 7.3 percent from 2010 to 2011. The results also show that hospital spending, which accounts for 48 percent of total health care […]

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Health Insurance Reform State Changes April

Governor Jan Brewer has signed a state budget that includes $1.1 billion in spending cuts and the elimination of programs that Democratic legislators say will have a disproportionate impact on the poor and children of the state. The budget eliminates $385 million from the Arizona Health Insurance Cost Containment System […]

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Kansas Health Insurance Aimed At Blocking Health Care Overhaul

A Kansas health insurance proposal aimed at blocking part of the federal health care overhaul from taking effect in the state has advanced in both houses of the legislature. Senators voted 26-10 last week to amend a so-called health care “freedom” measure into a bill dealing with the state’s pharmacy […]

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Kansas Health Insurance Companies Individual Market

The Kansas Health Insurance Department held a fact-finding hearing last week on the impact that PPACA’s 80 percent MLR will have on health insurance companies operating in the state’s individual health insurance market and any potential disruption of the market as a whole. The Department asked insurers to provide information […]

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Very Busy Week In Individual Health Insurance Reform

If you’re keeping score, three federal judges have now ruled in favor of the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) while two have ruled against it. The latest to weigh in was a federal judge in the District of Columbia who last week upheld the constitutionality […]

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Health Insurance State Reforms

Connecticut health insurance : The Department of Insurance has submitted its package of proposed legislation for 2011 providing a clear indication of the Department’s current priorities. The package would have to be approved (and/or amended) by the next Administration before any proposed legislation is submitted to the legislature in January. […]

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Health Insurance Reform State High Risk Pools

In the new health insurance reform law the states are permitted to create their own high risk pools, expand existing pools, or allow the federal government to create and administer the pools for them. The following states will operate their own pools: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, […]

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Kansas Health Insurance Bans Companies

American Trade Association, Smart Data Solutions, Real Benefits Association, Serve America Assurance have all been served with a cease and desist order from Kansas health insurance commissioner Sandy Praeger. This order has been issued because of deceptive advertising and the sales of unauthorized Kansas health insurance. The companies are based […]

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40,000 Children Losing Kansas Health Insurance

Kansas health insurance social programs are not fulfilling their duties due to needed budget cuts. Currently, there is a large waiting list that is growing drastically due to layoffs. This is in turn has made a major delay in processing applications. Children are unable to receive benefits from Health Wave […]

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Kansas Health Insurance Bills

Kansas health insurance : Kansas legislators returned to Topeka recently to begin the 2010 legislative session, and several Kansas health insurance related bills that carried over from the 2009 session are likely to be pursued by lawmakers.  These include bills concerning assignment of benefits, mental health parity, price transparency, and […]