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Hospitals now required to list prices for procedures online — but there’s a catch
The prices hospitals post won’t include the costs of having a doctor look at you, and because insurance often covers some of the cost, it’s unlikely that the price you see will be the price you pay.
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New health insurance laws in Maryland taking effect
Several new laws mandating health insurers cover procedures and instructions for handling certain health conditions are taking effect in Maryland in the new year.
2 months ago -
Medicaid expansion in Virginia set to begin in the new year
Thousands of uninsured, low-income Virginians will have new health care coverage starting in the new year.
2 months ago -
Researchers find 276,000 more kids uninsured in Trump’s first year in office
The number of children who are uninsured in the U.S. is on the rise for the first time in nearly a decade, with 276,000 more children going without insurance in President Donald Trump’s first year in office than in 2016.
3 months ago -
Business owners can team up on insurance, if state allows it
New rules that began going into effect last month allow sole proprietors and other business owners without employees to form what are known as association health plans, or AHPs.
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Anthem to offer health insurance in 42 more Virginia markets
Roughly 70 percent of Virginia’s 132 cities and counties have only one carrier, and the re-entry by Anthem Healthkeepers will decrease the amount to 45 percent.
6 months ago -
Health insurance companies mostly ask for rate increases
Most health insurance companies offering coverage through the individual market say they need to raise rates in the coming year.
9 months ago -
Gov. Hogan signs budget, bill to shore up Md. health insurance
In a bill signing ceremony in Annapolis, Hogan said state leaders had to step in because Congress failed to act: “This problem should have been solved in Washington, but nothing has been done,”
11 months ago -
Aetna’s stock surges on report of CVS $60B deal talks
Aetna’s stock has surged after a news report said CVS Health is in talks to buy the insurer in a deal that could be worth more than $60 billion.
1 year ago -
DC Health Exchange rates go up 15.6 percent next year
Two out of the four insurers in the marketplace revised their rates down from their initial filings, one as much as half of what proposed in D.C.
1 year ago -
Trump to halt subsidies to health insurers
The White House says in a statement that the Department of Health and Human Services has determined there is no appropriation for cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers under the Obamacare law.
1 year ago -
Maryland health insurance premiums going up average 33 pct. next year
The Maryland Insurance Administration approved premium increases for individual health insurance plans offered in the state for 2018 averaging 33 percent, less than what companies originally asked.
1 year ago -
Obamacare rate increase requests up 18-59 percent in Md.
Health insurance companies have submitted average rate increase requests for the 2018 individual plan markets to the Maryland Insurance Administration that range from 18 percent to nearly 59 percent.
2 years ago -
Revised GOP health bill still leaves 24M more uninsured after decade, CBO says
A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the GOP’s health care bill says that the revised version would have similar effects on health insurance coverage and premiums, and a smaller effect on reducing the federal deficit than initially predicted.
2 years ago -
Maryland Obamacare premiums going up an average 25 percent
The Maryland Insurance Administration has approved premium increases for individual health care insurance plans of an average 25.2 percent for 2017.
2 years ago
