Tag: health insurance

New York was cited for high housing costs and low health insurance expenses.

Healthfirst serves residents in downstate New York including Westchester, Orange and Sullivan counties.

Anthem is seeking a 9.9% average increase in its individual policies, and a 9.5% rise in its small group policies. ConnectiCare is asking for an average increase of 5.5% for individuals but a 0.2% decrease in its small group policies.

"Technology is expanding and our competitors are looking at it in different ways," said Murray.

The highest proposed rate increase is a jaw-dropping 52.1 percent.

HealthyCT customers, covered under their current policies until December 31, and will have to enroll in a new plan.

Mobile clinic will provide care for uninsured residents.

Roughly 100,000 gained access to health insurance in 2011.

Kevin Counihan, CEO of Connecticut’s health insurance exchange, has set the bar high. Let’s see if he and his staff can deliver

HSAs and HDHPs continue to offer employers and employees a flexible way to manage and reduce health care costs, especially as banks develop more sophisticated and convenient product sets that benefit both business and personal banking customers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the Department of Financial Services has cut health insurance rate increases to control the cost of health care.

New York’s state-run health exchange was approved by the federal government Tuesday, becoming one of the first states to earn approval.

In a possible indictment of federal health reform in Connecticut, private insurance carriers covered 320,000 fewer people in 2011 – an 11 percent drop.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that upheld the Affordable Care Act’s mandate on individual insurance coverage by 2014 was received in Westchester and...

Information gotten through social media has become a driver in people’s health care decisions, a report by the Health Research Institute finds.