After an unprecedented crackdown on misleading advertising claims by insurers selling private Medicare Advantage and drug plans, the Biden administration hopes to unleash a special weapon to make sure companies follow the new rules: you.
Stride Health drives Affordable Care Act enrollment with Shipt, Care.com partnerships
States have passed hundreds of laws to protect people from wrongful insurance denials. Yet from emergency services to fertility preservation, insurers still say no.
Insurance executives refused to pay for the cancer treatment that could have saved him. This is how they did it.
A Michigan law requires coverage of cancer drugs. One insurer came up with a “defensible” way to avoid paying for treatments that offered Forrest VanPatten his last chance for survival. “We crossed the line,” says a former executive.
You have a right to know why a health insurer denied your claim. Some insurers still won’t tell you.
Federal regulations require insurers to promptly hand over records to patients facing claim denials. Some insurers only turned over their files after ProPublica reached out.
Big insurance met its match when it turned down a top trial lawyer’s request for cancer treatment
Blue Cross and Blue Shield denied payment for the proton therapy Robert “Skeeter” Salim’s doctor ordered to fight his throat cancer. But he was no ordinary patient. He was a celebrated litigator. And he was ready to fight.
Premera’s ad campaign reflects changing employee expectations in healthcare
Premera Blue Cross teamed with its longtime creative agency partner Copacino + Fujikado for a trio of 30-second ads that highlights the camaraderie among coworkers in the office.
Start shopping: Enrollment begins Nov. 1 for most Obamacare insurance plans
Christine Rogers of Wake Forest, North Carolina, didn’t hesitate when she was asked to fill out a routine mental health questionnaire during a checkup last November. Then the bill came.
Quick genetic test offers hope for sick, undiagnosed kids. But few insurers offer to pay.