A class of patients who were denied coverage for mental health and substance abuse treatment may take their claims against a benefits administrator to trial, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read moreThe Trump administration’s pledge to end billions in federal insurance subsidies will worsen the federal deficit, and spike health insurance premiums, the Congressional Budget Office warned Tuesday.
Read morePeople buying individual health care policies would face higher premiums, and some may be left with no insurance options at all if President Donald Trump makes good on his threat to stop Affordable Care Act payments to insurers, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday.
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A California man claims in a federal class action that Walgreens conspired with pharmacy benefit managers to overcharge customers for generic drugs by charging those who use their insurance more money and collecting copays higher than the cost of the medications.
Read moreNationwide Mutual Insurance and its subsidiary Allied Property & Casualty Insurance will pay $5.5 million to 31 states and the District of Columbia for an October 2012 data breach that exposed 1.3 million customers to identity theft.
Read moreThe Texas House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that prohibits private insurers from providing coverage for abortions, rejecting amendments that would make exceptions for rape, incest or fetal abnormalities — the bill’s author said on the floor: “Rape very seldom results in a pregnancy.”
Read moreProtections from the federal health care law’s contraceptive mandate — won by secular employers in the Hobby Lobby case — are not applicable to employees, the Third Circuit ruled.
Read moreA retired attorney in Virginia sued the Republican National Committee and several of its affiliates over the GOP’s failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act and he says he wants his donations to the party back.
Read moreRapper Kanye West slapped his insurers with a $10 million federal lawsuit, claiming they refuse to pay claims for canceled dates on his “San Pablo” tour and leaked details of his medical condition to the press in violation of nondisclosure agreements.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Monday that the government will not have to repay a Maine insurer who did not receive payments from the so-called “risk corridors program” of the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreIn the aftermath of a $185 million settlement with the feds over the opening of unauthorized customer accounts, consumers hit Wells Fargo with another federal class action – this time on claims the bank charged over 800,000 borrowers for auto insurance they didn’t need.
Read moreSoaring prices and fewer choices may greet customers when they return to the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces this fall, in part because insurers are facing deep uncertainty about whether the Trump administration will continue to make key subsidy payments and enforce other parts of the existing law that help control prices.
Read moreSenate Republicans could not muster enough support for a partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act in the early morning hours Friday, with Arizona Sen. John McCain dramatically casting the decisive vote against the plan.
Read moreFour GOP senators declared Thursday evening that they will not vote for a slimmed-down partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act without an iron-clad guarantee that the House will negotiate a comprehensive replacement in conference.
Read moreThe Republican-run Senate on Wednesday afternoon rejected a GOP proposal to repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act without providing a replacement.
Read moreEven with Senate Republicans narrowly voting to bring a bill to the floor that would repeal the Affordable Care Act, senators of both parties acknowledged that it is far from assured that they will actually have the votes needed to pass the final legislation.
Read moreThe Senate narrowly voted to begin debate on a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act with Vice President Mike Pence casting the tie-breaking vote.
Read moreThirty-nine homeowners claim Farmers Group and other insurers breached contract and refused in bad faith to cover property damages from the 38,000-acre Sand Fire in Santa Clarita of July 2016, in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Read morePresident Donald Trump pressured Republicans Monday to approve the Senate’s wheezing health care bill, saying a showdown vote planned for this week is their “last chance to do the right thing” and erase the Obama health law.
Read moreThe Republican plan to repeal most of the Affordable Care Act without a ready replacement would leave 32 million more people uninsured by 2026 than under current law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday.
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