Consumer Groups Criticize Anthem’s Narrow Network In Missouri’s Obamacare Marketplace
The insurer touts affordable plans, but the exclusion of some premier hospitals could reduce treatment options for some patients.
Jay Hancock
Jay Hancock was a senior correspondent for ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News until he retired in Feburary 2022.
Showing 181 - 200 of 265
-
-
Swapping COBRA For Obamacare Likely To Be Windfall For Big Business
Experts expect people who are between jobs to gradually transfer to exchanges, a trend projected to save large employers billions in medical claims for ex-employees.
By Jay Hancock -
FAQ: How Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is Changing
Employers are raising deductibles, giving workers health savings accounts, mimicking the health law's online insurance marketplaces and nudging patients to shop around for treatments.
By Jay Hancock -
The Overlooked Obamacare Sales Force: Hospitals
Nobody has a bigger financial stake in the success of Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges than hospitals. And few may work harder to sign up consumers than hospitals themselves.
By Jay Hancock -
Obamacare Insurance Co-ops At The Starting Gate
The health law created 24 nonprofit, insurance company startups that will compete with long established companies starting next month.
By Jay Hancock -
-
Survey: Big Business May Shift Retirees, Part-Timers To Insurance Exchanges
The National Business Group On Health's annual survey of large employers asked whether they expected various groups currently covered by their plans to choose the health law's new coverage in 2014.
By Jay Hancock -
Bare Bones Health Plans Expected To Survive Health Law
Retailers, restaurant chains and others find they can continue to offer such coverage and avoid the health law's heftiest fines.
By Julie Appleby and Jay Hancock -
Why Health Law’s ‘Essential’ Coverage Might Mean ‘Bare Bones’
But how can a law praised for expanding coverage -- one that includes an "employer mandate" to offer "minimum essential coverage" -- allow companies to offer insurance that might not even cover hospitalization?
By Jay Hancock -
-
UPS Won’t Insure Spouses Of Some Employees
Partly blaming the health law, United Parcel Service is set to remove thousands of spouses from its medical plan because they are eligible for coverage elsewhere.
By Jay Hancock -
-
Health Costs Are Still Tame, Insurer Results Show
As to what’s causing it, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini suggests that consumers delay seeking care when money is tight: “While structural changes in the health system may be playing a modest role in the low-cost trend we are experiencing, we continue to believe that this low utilization is largely driven by the weak economy,” he […]
By Jay Hancock -
Maryland Regulators Slash Rates For Obamacare Insurance Policies
Consumer advocates praise rates that are more affordable, but others question whether they can be sustained.
By Jay Hancock -
-
Obamacare Delay Is A Relief For A Family Business
The owner of Angelo's restaurant says he's happy to have a reprieve from the health law
By Jay Hancock -
-
-
Delay In Major Health Law Provision Raises Doubts At Critical Stage Of Rollout
The decision to give large employers an extra year to cover their workers was praised by business leaders but complicates the implementation.
By Julie Appleby and Jay Hancock -
Sign Up For Our Newsletter
Stay informed by signing up for the Morning Briefing and other emails: