Tag: Connecticut health insurance

Connecticut insurance companies required to provide sex change coverage

Julie Campbell
Connecticut health Insurance

Insurers in the state must also provide their policyholders with treatment and counseling for the procedures. The Connecticut Insurance Department has now issued a directive that states that all insurers within the state must provide their policyholders with coverage for sex change operations, counseling, and treatments. The department recently put out a bulletin to the various carriers throughout the state that indicated this requirement. According to the report, Connecticut insurance companies must all make certain that “individuals with gender dysphoria … are not denied access to medically necessary care because…

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Regulators announce health insurance rates for Connecticut exchange

S.Vagus
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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Health insurance mandates make coverage expensive in Connecticut

Nordstrom
Connecticut health Insurance

Connecticut health insurance mandates could make coverage expensive through exchange In Connecticut, the state’s health insurance exchange, called Access Health CT, is set to begin open enrollment on October 1 of this year, with coverage to go into effect on January 1, 2014. Like other health insurance exchanges throughout the country, Connecticut’s system has been the subject of some controversy, but not for the reason that similar programs have been scrutinized. Where much of the criticism concerning health insurance exchanges has to do with the cost and ability for these…

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Connecticut health insurance exchange begins seeking out consumers

Logan B.
Connecticut liability insurance

Health insurance exchange in Connecticut is now looking for the uninsured Connecticut is one among a hand full of states in the U.S. that has opted to build and operate its own health insurance exchange. The state leads the country is terms of actually insured peoples, but that is not stopping Connecticut from seeking out the uninsured wherever they may be. The state’s health insurance exchange, which was approved by legislators shortly after the passing of the Affordable Care Act, has already begun looking to enroll uninsured consumers, under the…

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Health insurance exchange in Connecticut is moving forward

G. Turner
Connecticut health Insurance

The healthcare reforms in the state are now well under way, making it one of the furthest along. Connecticut has been one of the states that is moving forward with its health insurance marketplace at the fastest race, allowing it to take one of the lead positions in preparing to enroll residents in October through the new online exchange. Though the state’s efforts are progressing well, it has learned that there are some challenges with being first. The team at the state’s health insurance exchange – a quasi-public marketplace –…

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