Tag: Connecticut health insurance

Connecticut officials are warning consumers of health insurance scams

Logan B.
Connecticut health Insurance

Insurance Department tells consumers to beware of phone scams The Connecticut Insurance Department is warning consumers to beware of phone scams from those claiming to represent health insurance organizations. These scams have become fairly common during the open enrollment season for insurance exchanges. During these times, many consumers are either looking for new policies or to renew their current health insurance policies that they acquired through exchanges. These consumers are being targeted by scams that seek to profit during the open enrollment period. Phone scams are seeking to exploit consumers…

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Connecticut families could lose their health insurance coverage

S.Vagus
Connecticut health Insurance

Proposed budgets makes cuts to the state’s Medicaid program Proposed cuts to Connecticut’s Medicaid program could mean that many people will lose their health insurance coverage. Governor Dannel Malloy has proposed the state’s budget for 2016-2017, which includes changes to Medicaid’s eligibility. The changes would specifically affect the state’s HUSKY A insurance plan, which covers approximately 34,000 people throughout the state. According to an analysis from the Connecticut Health Foundation, the proposed changes would cause many people to drop their health insurance coverage. Families may lose their Medicaid eligibility due…

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State agency modifies health insurance rate increase proposals

Logan B.
Connecticut health Insurance

Connecticut Insurance Department modifies some proposals, rejects others The Connecticut Insurance Department has modified rate proposals from health insurance companies for policies that will offer coverage in 2015. The agency has modified rate proposals from some of the state’s largest insurers, including Aetna and UnitedHealthcare. Some rate proposals were rejected, while insurers were required by the agency to change their proposals in order to reduce the financial pressure that consumers experience from the coverage. Some of the rate proposals that the agency has modified have to do with policies that…

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Connecticut regulators deny rate proposals from two health insurance companies

S.Vagus
Connecticut health Insurance

Regulators deny insurers the ability to raise rates on 2015 policies The Connecticut Insurance Department has denied rate increase proposals from two insurance companies that had sought approval to raise premiums by at least 12% in 2015. One of the companies seeking an increase in premiums was Anthem Blue Cross, which had wanted approval to increase its rates by an average of 12.5%. State regulators have deemed this request “excessive” and denied the proposal, requiring the insurer to submit a new rate proposal for policies it plans to sell in…

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Health insurance can now be purchased in a retail store

H. Cutner
Connecticut health Insurance

Consumers in Connecticut now have two more places in which to purchase coverage before the deadline. With under a week left to purchase health insurance in 2014, in order to comply with the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, Connecticut has taken a unique step to help to ensure that its residents have every opportunity to obtain the coverage that they need. There are two retail stores that are allowing people to simply walk in and enroll. Shopping for health insurance has never felt so much like shopping for…

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