Regulators announce health insurance rates for Connecticut exchange

Connecticut health Insurance

Health insurance rates announced for plans sold through exchange The Connecticut Insurance Department has announced the approval for individual and small group health insurance rates for plans that will be sold through the state’s insurance exchange program. The state is set to manage its own health insurance exchange, opting to do so in order to ensure that the exchange provides the best service to consumers it possibly can. The state’s exchange, called Access Health CT, will begin open enrollment in October of this year before the policies sold through the…

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Aetna backs out of Georgia health insurance exchange

Georgia Health Insurance exchange

Aetna and Coventry pull out of state health insurance exchange Aetna, one of the largest health insurance providers in the U.S., has dropped out of Georgia’s health insurance exchange. The insurer is also taking its recently acquired subsidiary, Coventry, out of the state’s insurance exchange as well. With the two companies leaving the exchange, five insurers remain to offer coverage through the state’s exchange program. While the insurers will not be participating in the exchange, they will still be offering coverage beyond the confines of the program. Federal law seeds…

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Health insurance exchange in Maryland loses Aetna plans

Maryland Insurance

The giant insurer has announced that it is withdrawing its policies from the state marketplace. Aetna has revealed that it feels that the approved rates in Maryland are not feasible, as it scrutinizes the offerings it has across the rest of the United States, and has now canceled its intentions to sell health insurance within that state’s exchange. The marketplace is slated to open on October 1, 2013 in order to comply with the federal healthcare reforms. The intention to sell health insurance plans as a part of the new…

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Health insurance landscape shifts in Montana

montana Health insurance

Montana sees major transition in health insurance sector Montana has taken a major step in the field of health insurance. The state’s Insurance Commissioner, Monica Lindeen, has granted her approval for the sale of Blue Cross of Montana, the state’s largest private health insurance provider. Blue Cross of Montana is being sold to the Health Care Service Corp., which is based in Chicago, Illinois. The sale comes with numerous conditions, however, which are meant to benefit state residents to some degree. Sale of Blue Cross of Montana has been approved…

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Health insurance exchange campaign from HHS underway

Online health Insurance exchange

Considerable efforts from a new call center to a revamped website have been created to educate people about the changes. The Department of Health and Human Services has now launched a new campaign to help to spread the word about the health insurance exchanges, what they’re about, and how they will be used starting in October when the open enrollment begins. This campaign has been launched to make sure that Americans can easily gain all the information they require. In an effort to help to enroll millions of people through…

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