One in four self-employed small business owners surveyed by Cigna Corp. do not have health insurance, and most said it’s because health insurance is too expensive.
A bill awaiting Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s signature would make it illegal for home insurers to decline or cancel coverage — or refuse to renew a policy — based solely on losses from a tropical storm or other catastrophe.
Aetna this week became the third insurer to submit proposed rates for new health plans offered later this year on Connecticut’s public health exchange.
Aetna is suing an ambulatory surgical center in Englewood, N.J., for $10 million to recoup losses in an alleged scheme to overcharge the insurer while allowing patients to forgo copays and other out-of-pocket expenses.
The state Insurance Department said Thursday it recouped $1.3 million on behalf of policyholders and collected $902,000 in fines against insurers during the first three months of the year.
Bloomberg is reporting that it is cutting its adviser workforce by 2,500. It’s not clear as of Thursday morning how many of those positions are in Connecticut.
Last year, 18 executives at 11 Connecticut hospitals were compensated more than $1 million, according to a database released annually by the state Office of Health Care Access.
HealthSpring and Cigna Corp. will use both company names in a new branding campaign to market Medicare Advantage and Medicare prescription-drug plans.
ConnectiCare Benefits Inc. submitted its proposed rates for individual and small-group health plans that will be sold starting in October on the state’s public health exchange, Access Health CT, for coverage next year.
The Atlantic Ocean hurricane season this year is expected to be “active or extremely active,” federal forecasters said Thursday.
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