Shares of health insurers were mixed, with most large insurers modestly higher and Medicaid-focused insurers ending negative, including Molina Healthcare's 3.3 percent drop.
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That program helps cushion insurers against financial losses by collecting funds from insurers and then making payments to insurers with particularly sick and costly enrollees.
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An average of 5.5 insurers will offer coverage in each state next year, slightly less than the 85033 insurers in 2016 and the 6.4 insurers in 2015.
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The average: 4.6 insurers in the states studied, down from 5.7 insurers this year.
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They also must make payments to mortgage insurers, property insurers and local tax authorities.
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The goal, says Gal, is to have Ezra covered by insurers and self-employed insurers.
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In exchange, affected insurers (property and casualty insurers such as CGL insurers, but now also cyber liability insurers) must offer embedded coverage for losses induced by terrorism based on the same terms, amounts and other limitations applicable to losses already covered under their policies.
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Insurers and re-insurers are only now starting to include all that in their risk models.
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Fitch believes mortgage insurers' underwriting results are more volatile than those of other non-life insurers.
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Insurers hire PBMs to negotiate with drug manufacturers and help decide which drugs insurers should cover.
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Health insurers' shares were mixed, with Medicaid-focused insurers lower including Molina Healthcare's 2.2-percent drop.
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If drug coupons are problematic for insurers and drive up premiums, why don't insurers reject them?
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The risk corridor program was intended to guard against heavy losses for insurers in the early years of the healthcare law by shifting money from insurers faring well to insurers faring poorly.
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A significant change in the insurers' relationship with the government would also likely affect the insurers' ratings.
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The payments compensate insurers for discounts in out-of-pocket health costs insurers give low-income customers.
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The public sector represents a third type of insurers in Germany, besides public limited and mutual insurers.
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The Trump administration last year canceled key ObamaCare subsidies for insurers, leading insurers to increase premiums substantially.
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The authorities banned insurers from requiring local governments to provide any illicit guarantees when insurers offer funds.
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There are nearly 800 life insurers in this country, according to the American Council of Life Insurers.
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The insurers who responded to the survey included the largest listed insurers in Britain, along with large European Union and non-EU insurers operating in Britain, major insurance brokers and listed and unlisted insurers with an international focus, such as those operating in the Lloyd's of London market.
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The insurers who responded to the survey included the largest listed insurers in Britain, along with large European Union (EU) and non-EU insurers operating in Britain, major insurance brokers and listed and unlisted insurers with an international focus, such as those operating in the Lloyd's of London market.
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Insurers code the conditions people have, and the more health problems someone has, the more insurers get paid.
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Insurers complain that the program, which is intended to shield insurers from heavy losses, is not working properly.
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Related: Insurers aren't running scared from Obamacare anymore Also, Obamacare is enjoying a resurgence among insurers for 252.
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On average, urban areas had 2.5 insurers participating in 2017, compared to two insurers in more rural regions.
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Government health insurers generally pay lower rates to hospitals, doctors and other health care organizations than private insurers.
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They are followed by California insurers, which will lose about $107 million in payments, Texas insurers, which will lose about $98 million, and North Carolina insurers, which will lose about $66 million, the analysis found.
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However, some larger primary insurers in the United States and global insurers "will report material catastrophe losses," Fitch said.
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Insurers are calling for an extension of ObamaCare's "reinsurance" program, which redirects money to insurers with high-cost enrollees.
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The bottom line: Florida, California, and Texas insurers would be hardest hit, with Florida insurers alone losing $200 million.
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To re-establish the bargaining balance between providers and insurers, insurers argue that they too must also get larger.
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Both programs were designed to transfer money from more successful insurers to less successful insurers to stabilize the market.
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A new analysis of health insurers' financial data finds that ObamaCare markets are "stabilizing" and insurers are regaining profitability.
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Kristine Grow, a spokeswoman for the insurers' organization America's Health Insurance Plans, said insurers would consider the new data.
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In addition to insurers backing out, Congress has failed to support the law in ways that could help insurers.
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The administration and Congress also have refused to make a long-term guarantee to continue paying insurers the so-called cost-sharing reimbursements to insurers, without which insurers will have to significantly raise their premium prices.
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The risk corridor program was designed to provide financial stability for insurers in the early years of the healthcare law by taking money from insurers faring better financially and giving it to the insurers faring worse.
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For example, insurers may seek to deny coverage if companies pay the ransom without contacting their insurers first, he said.
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Then, he said, Trump's threats to end government payments to health insurers caused insurers to "hedge" and increase premiums again.
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Some insurers, including large companies like Anthem, say they remain committed to the market, and some insurers have made money.
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Nineteen states will see either new insurers entering the market or current insurers expanding into new areas, the analysis found.
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They do not prohibit insurers from charging women more than men, as insurers often did before the Affordable Care Act.
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If the federal government stops reimbursing insurers, many insurers have said they will make up for it by raising premiums.
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Other insurers are seeking standard increases, requests that come ahead of an imminent deadline for insurers to finish their rates.
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Insurers paid $363 million into the program in the first year, far short of the $2.87 billion sought by insurers.
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States with the fewest insurers have the largest premium increases while those with more insurers have more modest premium growth.
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Insurers are trial and erroring their way to market penetration One thing that is telling about the struggles insurers face in their path to usage-based insurance (UBI) penetration is the change in tactics deployed by insurers.
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Pence offered to scrap three of those requirements: guaranteed issue, which requires insurers cover everybody; community rating, which requires insurers charge everyone the same price for coverage; and essential health benefits, which mandates which services insurers must cover.
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Low yields will inevitably squeeze insurers' profits, even if guarantees remain affordable, and would continue to eat away insurers' capital buffers.
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Offering Obamacare plans will also make insurers eligible for new federal funding aimed at helping insurers pay for high-cost enrollees.
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The extended duration of PPOs presents longevity, inflation and investment risks for motor insurers, which are traditionally issues for life insurers.
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Insurers have bet on future growth of Medicare Advantage as the Trump Administration turns to private insurers to control healthcare costs.
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Some insurers may try to exit markets before open enrollment starts, potentially leaving some counties without any ObamaCare insurers next year.
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Five health insurers will fill 19 Ohio counties that were slated to have no insurers on the ObamaCare exchanges next year.
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Allowing insurers to submit two sets of rates could make it easier for Covered California to retain insurers on the marketplace.
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How it works: Under risk adjustment, insurers that enroll healthier-than-average people compensate insurers that enroll sicker-than-average people.
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Company officials say they expect that insurers will cover the treatment; insurers said this week that they are evaluating the drug.
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Adds requirements for health insurers: Insurers will have to cover all tests for the coronavirus without charging patients out of pocket.
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Burwell struck an upbeat tone on stage at the administration's inaugural insurers summit, designed to showcase ObamaCare success stories among insurers.
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Seattle Tunnel Partners has filed a $143 million claim with insurers for repair costs, which their insurers are fighting in court.
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This forces insurers to raise premiums, driving more healthy people off the insurance rolls and requiring insurers to raise rates repeatedly.
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Obamacare required insurers to provide those discounts on copays and deductibles regardless of whether the federal payments to insurers were made.
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The transitional reinsurance program collects a fee from insurers, and then redistributes the collected funds to insurers whenever they sustain large, unexpected losses on any of their plans – in essence, this program provides a sort of insurance for insurers.
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In states across the nation, insurers are raising rates by double digits and insurers are citing Obamacare as the reason for layoffs.
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Insurers embolden them by using a catch-and-release approach to fraud, in which the insurers identify criminals, then let them go.
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Japanese insurers have spent $53 billion on deals since 2014, the second most by insurers of any country after the United States.
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Eight of those insurers, all European, feature in a scorecard of 25 of the world's biggest insurers tracked by the campaign group.
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Fitch employs 12 key credit factors, five qualitative and seven quantitative, in its fundamental credit analysis of all insurers, including mortgage insurers.
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In other states, some insurers have chosen to count payments toward the deductible in the old plan, but Ohio insurers may not.
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This 22019 percent "medical loss ratio," which was previously imposed on insurers offering plans through ObamaCare's marketplaces, has drawn resistance from insurers.
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This 85 percent "medical loss ratio," which was previously imposed on insurers offering plans through ObamaCare's marketplaces, has drawn resistance from insurers.
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By passing the Taxpayers Before Insurers Act, Congress can recover the $5 billion illegally distributed to insurers through the transitional reinsurance program.
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There could be lawsuits from insurers Insurers are likely to sue the Trump administration, seeking to force it to make the payments.
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But the threat facing insurers in California is in one sense trickier: After Andrew, many national insurers stopped writing coverage in Florida.
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Rose added this was "something which certain insurers have put forward in relation to their renewals for construction operations", without specifying the insurers.
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A few insurers actually shut down entirely — and states like Iowa have since struggled to keep insurers in their markets — as a result.
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We estimate the average duration gap of Italian insurers is less than one year, compared to more than five years for German insurers.
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It requires insurers to sell coverage to anyone who wants it and bars insurers from jacking up prices to those with preexisting conditions.
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It also requires that pharmacy benefits managers, companies that help determine what insurers pay for the drugs, act in the insurers' best interests.
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Lindsey Johnson is the president of U.S. Mortgage Insurers (USMI), a trade association representing private mortgage insurers doing business in the United States.
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But in New York, areas with fewer insurers had higher premiums, suggesting that insurers kept the benefits of greater bargaining power for themselves.
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Insurers and pharmacy-benefit managers, who manage drug plans for insurers, negotiate discounts and rebates, which lowers the effective cost of a drug.
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When more people enroll, it is easier for insurers to accurately set premiums, and insurers' administrative costs are spread over a larger base.
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Life insurers, for instance, can discriminate on the basis of a person's genetic test results while health insurers are barred from doing so.
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Instead, money is collected from insurers who have healthier enrollees and given to insurers with sicker enrollees to help them cover those costs.
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A law that mandates insurers cover all customers is useless the law also has a mandate that insurers charge sick customers reasonable prices.
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Wider spreads lead to lower capital scores for insurers in Fitch's Prism factor-based capital model, our primary tool for assessing European insurers' capital strength, as we expect insurers will pass only some of the associated reduction in market value to their customers.
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The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) "risk adjustment" program is intended to incentivize health insurers to cover individuals with pre-existing and chronic conditions by collecting money from insurers with relatively healthy enrollees to offset the costs of other insurers with sicker enrollees.
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She said that means greater certainty for insurers by guaranteeing the continued payment of government subsidies, reimbursing insurers for covering high-cost patients, and assisting those areas of the country that currently have one or no insurers—filling insurance gaps for underserved counties.
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The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) "risk adjustment" program is intended to incentivize health insurers to cover individuals with pre-existing and chronic conditions by collecting money from insurers with relatively healthy enrollees to offset the costs of other insurers with sicker ones.
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In exchange for those referrals, insurers bought reinsurance, a sort of insurance for insurers, from PHH's subsidiaries, and PHH took those fees as kickbacks.
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In turn, the government collects a percentage of profits that other insurers make, which is then used lower the losses of the unprofitable insurers.
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Insurers and lawmakers have pressured the government not to cut payments, saying any decrease would hurt older Americans by forcing insurers to cut benefits.
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Insurers expect to pay out only 31 million pounds in trade credit insurance claims to affected suppliers, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said.
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Shares of hospital operators and health insurers took a plunge in trading Friday after the White House killed key Obamacare payments to health insurers.
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Collecting the tax from insurers is a gimmick, as insurers will pass the tax on to employers, who will pass it on to workers.
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Insurers are worried the payments could be discontinued, which could throw the market into chaos and cause insurers to pull out of the marketplaces.
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Insurers say a sicker group of people is signing up during the extra periods, contributing to many insurers losing money on the ObamaCare marketplaces.
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The money was supposed to come from profitable insurers, but the government did not collect enough to pay the amounts owed to unprofitable insurers.
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A scenario involving a steady increase in rates linked to higher growth and limited inflation would be credit positive for insurers, especially life insurers.
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" And on offering stability to insurers: "I do think we do have to be concerned ... that there's some certainty for the private health insurers.
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Also still being discussed: whether to prevent insurers from charging more to people with pre-existing conditions, not just require insurers to cover them.
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Dr. Hickey said the risk adjustment formula was biased in favor of large, established insurers and discriminated against smaller new insurers like his company.
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The banks' defence is likely to focus on the fact that bond insurers are hardly unsophisticated; insurers have long advertised their credit-surveillance skills.
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But if the payments end, insurers would still be legally responsible for giving the discounts to qualified customers, cutting into the insurers' bottom lines.
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While it would still require insurers to provide coverage to everyone, states could adjust other rules, including the mandate that insurers offer comprehensive policies.
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These plans generally require insurers to offer coverage to everyone, but they do not stop insurers from charging people more because they are sick.
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New Insurance Rules in Europe Could Lead to a Surge in Deals | The rules reward well-diversified insurers with lower capital requirements so the sector is expected to consolidate as larger insurers look to diversify further and smaller insurers with specialized businesses seek to combine.
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Premium incomes of life insurers grew 33.1 percent to 1.66 trillion yuan, while premium incomes of property insurers rose 8.7 percent to 777 billion yuan.
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The commission structure of the status quo is such that agents and insurers make the process a misalignment of interest between the insurers and policyholders.
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Instead money is collected from insurers with healthier patients overall and redistributed to insurers with sicker and more costly patients to help cover their costs.
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L have long been seen as acquisition targets, and insurers Amlin, Brit and Catlin have all been snapped up by overseas insurers in recent years.
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In many of the remaining 216 states with the health exchange plans, insurers have been requesting large price increases, and lower-cost insurers have left.
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As a result, some insurers see a market for private flood policies, and legislation pending in Congress aims to encourage more insurers to sell them.
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Employers choose our insurers, and the insurers restrict the providers we can use, the treatments we can receive, and the prescription drugs we can take.
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Additionally, 12 insurers have announced they will expand their footprint in the markets this year, leading to more competition among insurers and potentially reducing premiums.
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Some insurers are dropping coverage of those communities entirely while others are avoiding litigious locations such as Kentucky, Illinois and Florida, said insurers and brokers.
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More insurers could flee the ObamaCare markets if payments to insurers aren't funded and if the individual mandate isn't enforced — or if the uncertainty continues.
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One fix is for insurers to buy what's called reinsurance — a sort of insurance for insurers — providing payments if claims rise beyond a certain level.
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Recall that the Affordable Care Act would still require insurers to cut their low-income enrollees a break — it's just that insurers wouldn't get reimbursed.
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German insurers can set up wholly-owned insurance holding firms in China, whose insurers and reinsurers are welcome conduct reinsurance business in Germany, it said.
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Star India likely took out contingency insurance from Indian insurers, but reinsurance may have been provided by the specialist Lloyd's of London market, insurers said.
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Here, again, fewer healthy people in the Obamacare market means higher costs to insurers, which leads to higher premiums and possibly more insurers dropping out.
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The Trump administration is considering requiring insurers to disclose their negotiated rates for services, which could affect insurers in the private market, the WSJ scooped yesterday.
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First, the majority of top insurers offer similar programs, and there's no evidence to suggest that insurers without a telematics offering fare worse than their counterparts.
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And health insurers could push the senators to add a repeal of the tax on health insurers — because they say that would really bring down premiums.
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It was a light hit for insurers, because few underwrite flood insurance and the wind damage they do cover was minimal; insurers' stock prices barely fell.
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New York chose the first course, permitting all willing insurers to join; California chose the second, selecting 12 of the 32 insurers that initially showed interest.
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Fitch estimates that large insurers have lower funding costs at below 8523% after including mortality/morbidity and loading gains, versus above 2852% for some small insurers.
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That program collects money from insurers and redirects it to insurers with especially sick and costly enrollees, helping to guard against premium hikes and heavy losses.
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The ruling — which focuses on money to help insurers with expensive patients — could have significant consequences for pending cases brought by other insurers across the nation.
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Some insurers are pulling out of the marketplaces completely: Several dozen counties in Ohio, Missouri and Washington State have no insurers signed up for next year.
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Many insurers could simply end up walking away, warned Sabrina Corlette, a research professor at Georgetown University who recently surveyed insurers about what they might do.
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Insurers have pushed for the Trump administration or Congress to continue ObamaCare's cost-sharing reduction payments, which reimburse insurers for giving discounts to low-income patients.
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Insurers are resisting rate hikes from their insurers, including the property reinsurers that act as a safety net if insurance companies' losses reach a certain level.
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More younger people with expensive medical conditions have enrolled than insurers expected, and insurers would have to increase premiums to cover their costs, Mr. Haltmeyer said.
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More younger people with expensive medical conditions have enrolled than insurers expected, and insurers would have to increase premiums to cover their costs, Mr. Haltmeyer said.
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Pharmacy benefits managers are companies that help insurers devise and run their drug benefits, including serving as middlemen in negotiating prices between insurers and drug manufacturers.
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And here, again, fewer healthy people in the Obamacare market means higher costs to insurers, which leads to higher premiums and possibly more insurers dropping out.
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The sales number was low, he said, in part because insurers balked at the price — the list price is more than $14,000 a year, although insurers negotiate substantial discounts — and in part because so many people were eligible that insurers were concerned, so they limited access.
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Hospitals and insurers typically treat specific prices for medical services as closely held secrets, with contracts between the insurers and hospital systems generally bound by confidentiality agreements.
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In 2014, the government collected just $362 million in risk corridor payments from profitable insurers, which was dwarfed the $2.87 billion in payments requested by unprofitable insurers.
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Other large insurers, including Transamerica Life Insurance and Principal Financial are also competing for hefty pension deals as smaller insurers jockey for a slice of the market.
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Some insurers don't like the Medicaid cuts either, as much of the program has been moved to managed care programs that are administered by private health insurers.
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He said he's working with insurers to stabilize the market in Washington, which could involve a reinsurance program that reimburses insurers for taking on high-cost enrollees.
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If insurers were required to maintain the same formulary over time, pharmaceutical manufacturers could simply raise prices at will and insurers would lack leverage to stop them.
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This is a better approach than blinding insurers to applicants' health status, as ObamaCare does, because that has sadly resulted in insurers offering high premiums to all.
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As a result, the agency has proposed combined ratio guidelines for mortgage insurers that are more conservative than the benchmarks Fitch uses for other non-life insurers.
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Insurers are anxiously waiting to hear whether Congress will continue paying the cost-sharing subsidies, which are payments to insurers to give lower-income people discounted deductibles.
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Insurers will often try to recapture coverage payments they had made previously, if they find out a facility was offering what the insurers deem as excessive care.
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Health insurers Democrats had originally insisted that the spending deal specifically appropriate the funds for ObamaCare's payments that help health insurers offset costs for low-income customers.
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This has made insurers cautious, resulting in some insurers offering high premiums and low policy coverage or demanding clients incorporate new technologies before they can be insured.
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Those provisions could help cut down on the current uncertainty, stop some insurers from losing money on ObamaCare plans and entice insurers to participate in more markets.
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For their part, insurers have made it clear that there's one item on the policy agenda they would like to discuss: the subsidies insurers receive under Obamacare.
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Perhaps more important, insurers said, would be if fixes are made to the current system, which has already seen an exodus of insurers unable to make money.
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The state uses health insurers to run Medicaid, and it said it would no longer pay insurers to contract with CVS and Express Scripts for pharmacy benefits.
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For all their rhetoric to the contrary, I haven't seen much evidence that insurers — particularly individual-market insurers — are any good at improving the health of enrollees.
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"This would help insurers in Iowa, if there are any, since the cost of this patient would be spread across all individual market insurers nationally," Levitt said.
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America's Health Insurance Plans, the lobbying organization that represents health insurers, has compiled a list of what insurers are covering amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
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Insurers and consumer advocates say Mr. Trump's efforts to undercut the Affordable Care Act have created uncertainty for insurers, causing some to withdraw from the public marketplaces.
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Three major mainstream insurers often quote such drivers significantly higher premiums, compared with quotes for drivers who were previously insured by large standard insurers, the analysis found.
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That program collects money from insurers and redirects it to other insurers with especially sick and costly enrollees, helping to guard against premium hikes and heavy losses.
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These products allowed insurers, particularly smaller insurers, to raise large sums of money quickly, which they then used to speculate in bonds, real estate and other investments.
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Insurers and many healthcare experts say that the biggest source of instability is Trump's threat to end the payments to insurers, known as cost-sharing reductions (CSRs).
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The Affordable Care Act attempted to addresses the insurers' information problem by creating funds to compensate insurers that enrolled a disproportionate number of people with high costs.
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Insurers could also object to covering contraception for religious or moral reasons, though the draft notes that it's not aware of any insurers who have those objections.
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When Pinal County in Arizona faced the very prospect of no insurers last year, the Obama administration and the state worked together with insurers to get coverage.
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As consumer anger over drug prices has grown, pharmaceutical companies and insurers have increasingly pointed fingers at each other, with drug companies accusing insurers of profiting from their share of the rebates they collect, while insurers say the manufacturers are the ones that decide what a drug costs.
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On the one hand, it allows states to loosen regulations that insurers loathe, and includes billions of dollars for insurers to get them to stabilize individual insurance marketplaces.
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In the free market we had before Obamacare, insurers said "no thanks" to 1 in 5 potential customers because those customers had conditions insurers didn't want to cover.
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Will they act as a channel for existing insurers, as a provider of data and analytics to those insurers or even as a provider of direct insurance themselves?
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Insurers' hybrid debt issuance is also swelling under the low interest-rate environment, which favours fund raising, to help insurers maintain capital adequacy after significant M&A deals.
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There, insurers and the government have reached an agreement that both guarantees the right to insurance, and the rights of insurers to access information that may impact risk.
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A number of insurers intend to exit Obamacare marketplaces, and many insurers remaining on those exchanges plan to hike their premium prices more sharply than in past years.
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That complaint, against some of the same insurers highlighted by the Harvard center, charged that the insurers placed all the HIV drugs in the highest cost-sharing tier.
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Details: The study focused on 3833 common procedures, using insurers' claims data to track the real prices patients and insurers paid for those services between 2007 and 2014.
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Humana's latest move underscores a larger trend of health insurers building out their MA businesses — which could signal trouble for smaller insurers operating in the entrenched MA space.
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That is a sliver of the $244.9 billion in total premiums for U.S. commercial line insurers, but a growing market in which insurers are trying to distinguish themselves.
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And if the Trump administration stops reimbursing insurers for a critical Obamacare subsidy to low-income customers, insurers would ask for rate hikes of 20.3 percent, Miller said.
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Insurers say Trump commitment on ObamaCare payments falls short Health insurers say a new commitment from the White House to continue paying ObamaCare insurer subsidies is not enough.
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Other large insurers, including MetLife Inc and Principal Financial Group Inc are also competing for hefty pension deals as smaller insurers jockey for a slice of the market.
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Suspending the program temporarily disadvantages insurers that will get payments for the 2017 plan year, while advantaging insurers that will be assessed charges for the 2017 plan year.
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DBRS said the credit ratings of major insurers operating in Canada were not expected to be impacted because direct insurers had reinsurance programs in place for such events.
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The Trump administration will resume a program that pays billions of dollars to health insurers, just weeks after sending insurers into a panic by abruptly suspending the payments.
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Fitch does not expect the deregulation trials to adversely impair motor insurers' margin in the near term, notwithstanding downward adjustment of pricing rates by insurers due to competition.
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The price that patients pay for the medicines their doctors prescribe is set by insurers, and we advise insurers that this price should be as low as possible.
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About 40% of the bonds held in insurers' general accounts had a maturity of more than 20 years at purchase, according to the American Council of Life Insurers.
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A lot of insurers have raised premiums, and a lot of insurers have decided to stop participating in the program, which encourages those that remain to raise premiums.
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An unusual coalition of insurers, environmentalists and fiscal conservatives has joined the Trump administration in calling for fundamental changes in the program, including direct competition from private insurers.
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Before the action, state regulators and insurers anticipated that Trump would cut off the subsidy payments, which reimburse insurers for discounts to low-income people, and planned ahead.
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Novartis and Global Blood Therapeutics have been speaking to insurers about covering the new drugs, and both say they are optimistic that most insurers will pay for them.
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Insurers with a better-than-expected experience in the exchanges paid in, and that money was then paid out to insurers that had a worse-than-expected launch.
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But the decision, like the announced exits by national insurers like Humana in other states, creates increasing anxiety over whether there will even be insurers in some areas.
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Capretta said he did not think many counties would have no insurers even without a mandate, because insurers would be attracted to the idea of having a monopoly.
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The requirement that insurers offer coverage to all patients would still exist, but it would be meaningless, as insurers would be allowed to charge sick patients unaffordable prices.
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Credit ratings firms AM Best and Fitch Ratings this week revised their outlooks for U.S. life insurers from stable to negative as the global economic meltdown rattle U.S. life insurers An historic stock market slump and interest rate cuts will pressure life insurers' earnings, reserves and capital, Fitch said on Tuesday.
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Insurers have been left to deal with huge shortfalls (more than $400 million in the case of just our organization), leading to the demise or departure of many insurers.
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Because the administration did not have enough money from profitable insurers to fully pay money-losing insurers, it would have had to increase the deficit to meet its obligations.
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Insurance investors fretted about everything from the impact of mass catastrophes, such as California's wildfires, on insurers' bottom lines to how the market mayhem affected life insurers' investment portfolios.
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Here's what it would look like: If insurers like Anthem decide to exit the exchanges for 2018, hundreds of thousands of people would be stranded without any available insurers.
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They often require insurers to cover every facility or doctor the hospital owns, and prohibit insurers from offering incentives — like lower copays — for patients to use less expensive competitors.
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Fitch-rated insurers typically have capital positions that can withstand significant catastrophe losses and their ratings incorporate an expectation of some catastrophe losses for insurers with known catastrophe exposures.
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It's a particularly crucial task because insurers are panicking about the number of sick and older people enrolled in ObamaCare; some insurers have dropped out of the exchanges altogether.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES With the insurers currently rated at or above Japan's Long-Term Local-Currency IDR, an upgrade of any of the insurers is unlikely in the near future.
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Analysts at RBC said that while increasing bond yields are positive for insurers, with the Lloyd's insurers, the decline in the value of the bonds is recognised through earnings.
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Obamacare also barred insurers from charging higher premiums to people with health conditions, and established a minimum set of "essential health benefits" that insurers must cover with their plans.
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But after protests from insurers and some states, the agency settled — for now — on a more limited fix that allows states and insurers more time to address the problem.
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Swiss Re estimated the cost of Canada's Fort McMurray wildfires—the country's costliest disaster ever for insurers—at $3.9 billion on an economic level and $2.8 billion for insurers.
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Rates paid by commercial insurers are based on individual contracts knowingly and freely entered into by the hospital (this is not true of the rates paid by government insurers).
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The risk-corridor program transfers money from insurers who don't spend a minimum amount of premium revenue on medical care to insurers that spent more than they were required.
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When insurers pointed out that these improvisations would destabilize the exchanges and increase premiums, because they encourage people to enroll only when they were sick, insurers were politely ignored.
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If any of those insurers decide to exit and stop selling, areas could be left with zero insurers — a situation that nearly happened in one Arizona county this year.
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The senators said some insurers were willing to allow workers to continue coverage without payment and urged OPM to work with all insurers to help employees maintain their coverage.
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Some insurers, including Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, oppose association health plans, saying they would skim off healthier consumers and leave traditional insurers with sicker, more expensive customers.
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Mr. Sanders is fond of saying that private insurers would be welcome to offer coverage for elective cosmetic surgery, an opportunity that few insurers appear interested in covering now.
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There was also "grit in the wheels" for insurers wanting to invest in infrastructure and requirements for reporting data to regulators were also burdensome for smaller insurers, she said.
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And it's not just insurers exiting the market that should concern consumers and policymakers, it's also the insurers that will continue to offer plans at steeper and steeper premiums.
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The House plan also maintains many of the demands on insurers that the Affordable Care Act has, including a defined suite of "essential benefits" that all insurers must offer.
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Insurers and regulators have identified rock bottom yields as the biggest problem because they choke off insurers' investment income while simultaneously raising the cost of future guarantees to policy holders.
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Under the program, insurers that are profitable give a fraction of their profits to the government — which in turn dispenses that money proportionately to insurers whose plans are not profitable.
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The law is on the insurers' side, and once the insurers have a court verdict in their favor, the reimbursements can be paid out of the federal government's Judgment Fund.
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The WSJ reports the company plans to work with some insurers in covering the digitized pills with production planned to be ramped up only if it can find willing insurers.
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U.K. insurers' shares have been buffeted since the Brexit vote, as investors worry that the weakening value of insurers' investments will hit their capital positions under new European solvency rules.
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It repeals the mandate that insurers cover an essential set of health benefits, and also moves to letting insurers charge the oldest patients five times as much as the youngest.
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More insurers will propose their rates to state regulators next week, and are expected to follow insurers in Maryland and Virginia who have already asked for double digit rate increases.
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Insurers are perhaps even more worried that the Trump administration could cancel ObamaCare payments known as cost-sharing reductions, which reimburse insurers for giving discounted deductibles to low-income enrollees.
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Other insurers are proposing sharply higher premium rates next year, often in large part due to uncertainty over whether the Trump administration will continuing paying insurers cost-sharing reduction reimbursements.
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Years of low interest rates have created challenges for insurers by reducing the earnings on their investment portfolios, once a key revenue stream for both life and property casualty insurers.
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Heading into 2018, insurers face new uncertainties that include lack of clarity on how the Trump administration will enforce Obama-era policies, which could affect insurers' pricing and participation decisions.
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She wants to expand Medicare with the aid of private insurers to achieve universal healthcare, a plan that drew criticism from Sanders for keeping a strong role for private insurers.
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Republicans have derided the program as a "bailout" of insurers, though many insurers have cited a shortfall in the program's funding for financial losses and the need to hike premiums.
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An estimated 250 billion euros, or around 5% of European insurers' assets, are invested in fixed income, up from 2% to 3% five years ago, said people at several insurers.
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UnitedHealth, Anthem, Humana, Aetna and other insurers were up after the U.S. government proposed raising payments to health insurers who offer Medicare Advantage health benefits to elderly and disabled Americans.
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It is also working with commercial insurers, like Aetna, as well as life insurers such as John Hancock, as part of their programs to help members access an Apple Watch.
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Private equity firms such as Apollo and Cinven have also teamed up with insurers in this market, which has grown as large insurers seek to offload capital-intensive pension products.
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California health insurers that sell ObamaCare plans say they could have double-digit premium increases for some plans next year if the Trump administration cuts off key payments to insurers.
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Among CAP's many positive proposals is one more that Dems should reject, waiving the tax on health insurers that agree to remain in markets with only one or no insurers.
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Y., said to address Trump's aversion to enriching insurers, Democrats had offered to delay the measure's impact for a month after enactment to let insurers lower premiums after payments were restored.
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Since the ACA forces insurers to take people with pre-existing conditions, the insurers are forced to take on people they know will be a net negative to their bottom line.
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The Affordable Care Act required insurers to cover the cost of patients' flu shots without charging a copay, although some insurers only cover vaccines given by doctors or at certain locations.
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That really prevented the program from having its fully desired effect: Payments to struggling insurers were limited by how much insurers that had lower-than-expected costs paid into the program.
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China and Germany welcome German insurers to set up wholly-owned insurance holding companies in China, and welcome Chinese insurers and reinsurers to conduct reinsurance business in Germany, the statement said.
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" It continues, "The stalling is emblematic of a broader modus operandi of the insurers of never-ending post-claim underwriting where the insurers hunt for some contrived excuse not to pay.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Political risk is the biggest concern this year for insurers globally, following several shock outcomes in 2016, a survey of insurers managing $10 trillion in assets showed on Thursday.
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The original House GOP bill allowed insurers to charge older consumers five times more than younger ones, but states that request waivers could permit insurers to increase those premiums even more.
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The drop would be due to consumers gravitating to lower premium plans, insurers increasingly offering only those plans, and the elimination of the cost sharing subsidies the ACA provided to insurers.
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Health insurers that are found to have healthier customers (according to a federal formula) pay money into the program, and then insurers who have sicker customers receive money out of it.
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Among these are one mandating that insurers charge those with pre-existing conditions the same as healthy consumers, and that insurers cover so-called essential health benefits, such as maternity care.
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If the Senate adds that provision to this bill, smaller insurers will be able to get into more markets and bigger insurers will have a new incentive to provide more choices.
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Trump, however, has suggested he might cut off those reimbursements to insurers, even while the insurers are still legally obligated under the Affordable Care Act to continue giving them to customers.
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If the government stops paying insurers, the insurers would still be on the hook for the cost of the CSRs because Obamacare requires them to offer low-income customers the discounts.
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The tax reforms will reduce the amount of separate account "dividends received deduction" that insurers can claim, which will reduce the benefit to insurers' earnings from the corporate tax rate cut.
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Private insurers, as well as government insurers such as Medicare and Medicaid, set their reimbursement levels based on procedure codes (DRG/APC) and not based on à la carte price lists.
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Insurers are facing uncertainty regarding the fate of federal funding for cost-sharing reductions, which are reductions to out-of-pocket costs that insurers must offer to low-income marketplace enrollees.
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The healthcare sector was down 0.27 percent as health insurers tumbled on news that President Donald Trump scrapped billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies to private insurers for low-income Americans.
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This information is closely held by the middlemen who manage prescription drug benefits for insurers, drugmakers and insurers, and was not even provided to DeGette and Reed's offices, the report said.
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Pence told the senators that the government insurers Medicare and Medicaid, as well as private insurers, have agreed to cover the cost of coronavirus tests, and the deductibles related to them.
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The nation's big health insurers, including Aetna and Cigna, had previously tried to combine with other insurers, only to have those deals blocked over concerns about the possible impact on consumers.
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Insurers have raised the premiums for many health plans in 2018 because of Mr. Trump's threat to cut off certain subsidies paid to insurers — a threat he carried out last month.
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In Indiana, where a pilot study on hospital prices led to the Rand research, the realization that insurers were paying so much has already altered how insurers are contracting with hospitals.
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One is that basing your system around managed competition between private insurers means you are in bed with private insurers — dependent on their cooperation, and so incentivized to help them succeed.
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That bill prohibits insurers from denying coverage to patients with pre-existing conditions, but it does permit states to obtain waivers that allow insurers to charge more based on health status.
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Pence told the senators that the government insurers Medicare and Medicaid, as well as private insurers, have agreed to cover the cost of coronavirus tests, and the deductibles related to them.
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They, like many others, were caught in a battle between insurers, who want lower prices for these expensive drugs, and drug companies, who set the prices and negotiate deals with insurers.
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EIOPA, which writes rules for insurers across the EU, published Brexit licensing guidelines or "opinion" in July aimed at stopping national regulators from undercutting each other to attract insurers from Britain.
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She said that the company has also consulted insurers about covering the drug, and that while the talks are in their early stages, insurers have responded positively to the drug's effectiveness.
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Individuals could shop for and purchase affordable health coverage directly from competing insurers, and it would encourage insurers to participate in an individual market where medical underwriting is no longer allowed.
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The groups urge Congress to find a way to fill counties that don't have any ObamaCare insurers for 2018 and to implement reinsurance pools to help insurers cover high-cost patients.
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QantEv – PARIS QantEv optimizes provider networks for health insurers.
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" Metlife Inc: "No, we have two insurers we recommend.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major insurers American International Group Inc (AIG.
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Trump told insurers, including UnitedHealth Group Inc , Anthem Inc.
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Shares of Japan's largest property & casualty insurers also dropped.
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Expect to hear more from them — and from insurers.
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But in an effort to sway the caucus, Vice President Pence offered this week to get rid of three regulations: essential health benefits, which mandate what services insurers must cover; community rating, which says insurers can't charge sick people more for insurance; and guaranteed issue, which says insurers must cover people with pre-existing conditions.
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Insurers less adept will initially be at a competitive disadvantage, potentially losing some of their more profitable business to insurers that can price it more accurately using their greater knowledge of telematics.
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Under the Loser Public Option, the government offers a public insurance choice only in difficult areas of the country that private insurers have effectively abandoned rather than taking on private insurers everywhere.
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In a speech to the Association of British Insurers, Barclay, whose official title is Economic Secretary to the Treasury, sought to reassure banks and insurers that he was qualified for the job.
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Moving forward, Atrium cannot draft contracts that would penalize those insurers for creating narrow networks that exclude Atrium's hospitals and doctors or would prevent insurers from disclosing prices to employers and patients.
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In most states, insurance rules allowed insurers to charge premiums based on health, gender and age, and insurers could deny coverage due to pre-existing conditions, or exclude certain conditions from plans.
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The program collected money from insurers that had a better-than-expected early experience in the ACA's exchanges, and used that money for insurers whose early experience was worse than they expected.
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Also on the table, Meadows said, was the idea that insurers could opt out of community health ratings, which currently ban insurers from charging higher premiums based on gender or health history.
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Slavitt said the continuation of the payments, while cushioning the bottom line of insurers for now, will still leave insurers wondering whether the money will be there in four months or longer.
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SPXHC was down 0.3 percent as health insurers and hospital operators tumbled on news that President Donald Trump scrapped billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies to private insurers for low-income Americans.
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Insurers also have an immediate request, though: getting certainty from the administration and Congress that crucial ObamaCare payments to insurers, to the tune of about $28503 billion, will continue to be made.
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Private insurers are on board, with Aetna Inc, Anthem Inc, UnitedHealth Group and most Blue Cross insurers announcing plans to shift half of their reimbursement to alternative payment models to control costs.
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Drug companies will say insurers and PBMs are restricting access to life-saving medicine, and insurers will blast big pharma for propping up sales with coupons that raise costs for everyone else.
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President Donald Trump for months after taking office had threatened to stop reimbursing Obamacare insurers for discounts those insurers by law must give most customers in their out-of-pocket health costs.
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The last few years have seen an increase in flood insurance products from surplus-lines insurers — companies that typically offer coverage for products considered unique or too high-risk for traditional insurers.
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And 2017 "will likely see continued improvement" for those insurers selling individual health plans, "with more insurers getting close to breakeven or better," according to the report by Standard & Poor's Global Ratings.
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Hospitals and insurers often keep these fees secret — and even with the data set that these researchers use, you can't see which insurers are paying which prices; all the data remains anonymous.
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But for Takaful insurers to thrive there is a need for access to capital markets, Amaghdir said, urging bourse regulator (AMMC) to approve measures to facilitate Sharia-compliant investments by Takaful insurers.
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The bill requires insurers to provide coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and prohibits insurers on the individual market (but not the small group market) from charging those people higher premiums.
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" As the report itself says, insurers do consider mileage driven as a factor, the association said, but "as one would expect in a competitive market, it is done so differently among insurers.
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While Mr. Cassidy's bill forbids insurers to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, it does permit states to obtain waivers that allow insurers to charge more based on health status.
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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a state securities regulators group, said on Wednesday it would oppose proposals to require that insurers retroactively pay the losses, citing "substantial solvency risks" for insurers.
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Insurers sued, claiming HHS had essentially reneged on a promise, only after insurers put themselves on the line in a new marketplace under the expectation that this safety net would be there.
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Most insurers lost money in first year of ObamaCare A new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund gives us a deeper look at how health insurers fared under the first year of ObamaCare.
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Trump said in October that his administration would stop paying Obamacare insurers billions of dollars in reimbursements for discounts that insurers must give by law to low-income customers of their plans.
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The likely targets: The "essential health benefit" requirements, which define 10 categories of services insurers have to cover, and the "community rating" provision, which prevents insurers from charging higher rates to sick people.
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Because losses among Obamacare insurers were greater than profits, that meant the government would have had to increase the deficit if it made the full payments due insurers under the risk corridor program.
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States have turned to health insurers to manage those programs, and now two of the nation's largest insurers say they are seeing more turnover in states that have implemented new work reporting requirements.
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That would make it one of the costliest storms in history for U.S. insurers, but could ultimately help insurers and reinsurers to raise rates, some analysts said, after a period of low premiums.
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"There are plenty of other conditions, even acne or high blood pressure, that could have gotten people denied from some insurers but accepted and charged a higher premium by other insurers" says Cox.
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That legislation would guarantee federal payments to health insurers for what are called cost-sharing reductions, discounts that insurers are required to provide to their lowest-income customers, for the next two years.
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Guarantees constrain insurers' investment freedom as insurers need to hold low-risk backing assets of similar nature and duration to the guarantees - typically highly rated bonds - to limit market and interest-rate risk.
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But nothing stops Germans from ordering from abroad, and, just as it became normal for life insurers to ask for family history, so insurers will surely eventually have access to relevant genetic information.
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The disparity between the predictions and the reality means that insurers are getting less money than they should from an Obamacare program meant to lower financial risk for insurers covering higher-cost customers.
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Bulk annuity deals involve insurers taking over a company's final salary pension scheme and are becoming more common as businesses look to reduce their risks and insurers look for new sources of income.
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That's because this new proposal may let states opt out of forcing insurers to cover certain essential health benefits and barring insurers from charging consumers based on their medical history or gender. 5.
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While insurers clearly must pass along the help to enrollees by law, Republicans have argued Congress never actually gave the Obama administration the money for the program that's being used to pay insurers.
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One area that's a huge cost center for insurers and a potential reason for their crap approach to customer service is the high incidence of false claims that insurers have to weed through.
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The provision lets states waive two ObamaCare regulations: community rating, which banned insurers from charging sick people more for coverage, and essential health benefits, which mandates a list of services insurers must cover.
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The goal here is to have insurers compete on the basis of plan benefits and quality, not on the basis of whether their customers are sicker or healthier than those of other insurers.
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To calculate those potential savings, NerdWallet compared the three cheapest rates among large insurers in that state against the average annual rate among all large insurers, weighted by market share in that state.
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Consumers should ask agents and insurers for details of how private policies compare with national flood insurance, said Don Griffin, vice president of personal lines at the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America.
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Insurers raised premiums after Congress end the individual mandate and the Trump administration halted cost-sharing subsidies, but plans have proven to be very profitable and insurers expect to send customers money back.
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A handful of asset managers, exchanges and insurers who responded in September didn't respond this time or declined to comment, while a few insurers and asset managers were included for the first time.
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Insurers whose early ACA experience turned out better than they had expected would pay into a fund, and that fund would then pay out to insurers whose experience was worse than they expected.
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A majority of U.S. counties would only have the choice of one or two insurers on the ObamaCare marketplace, which is below the threshold of three insurers seen as needed for strong competition.
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The Times also chronicled efforts to rescue pets and other animals in this story, and explained here how insurers may have to turn to their own insurers to cover claims from the storm.
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"The risk adjustment formula was extremely biased in favor of large, established insurers and discriminated against new and small insurers, including co-ops like ours," Dr. Hickey said in an interview on Saturday.
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Insurers are sharply raising their prices for 2018 because lawmakers have not committed to funding the so-called cost-sharing subsidies that help insurers reduce deductibles and co-payments for low-income customers.
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Drug companies and insurers are experimenting with "value-based" or "outcome-based" models, although the concept is much further along in how insurers reimburse doctors and hospitals than how they pay for drugs.
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But even as the Trump administration gave insurers more time, it failed to answer the central question insurers are asking: namely, whether they will continue to receive key payments from the federal government.
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Insurers could leave the marketplaces Since open enrollment begins in less than three weeks, there's not a lot of time for insurers to decide if they will continue to participate in state exchanges.
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Mr. Counihan said he saw a risk that some counties might not have any insurers on the exchange next year as major insurers like Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealth pull back from the program.
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"Overall, insurers were more disciplined in 2019 on risk selection and participation," said Christine Williams, U.S. CEO of Aon Financial services, who notes insurers are publicly telegraphing their intention to reduce their exposure.
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Ironically, the major Obamacare exchange insurers Centene, Anthem and Molina have been the biggest gainers among the health insurers year to date, as opposition to the House and Senate repeal bills has grown.
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UnitedHealth and other health insurers including Anthem, Humana and Aetna were up after the U.S. government proposed raising payments to health insurers who offer Medicare Advantage health benefits to elderly and disabled Americans.
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Insurers frequently raise the price of certain medicines to encourage people to select cheaper alternatives, but these insurers raised the cost of every single H.I.V. medicine — leaving many enrollees with no affordable options.
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There is one piece of unqualified good news so far in the 2019 Obamacare landscape: No insurers are pulling out of the law's markets, and in fact, a few insurers are entering them.
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Asset concentration risk constrains the ratings of Italian insurers, Fitch said on Monday in a report on six Italian insurers, adding the risk was partly offset by a strong business profile and capitalisation.
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At this moment, though, the watchword for insurers is stability.
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Among the other four large U.S. health insurers, Aetna Inc.
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The Times said that insurers are currently assessing the drug.
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Insurers would be eager to offer those customers cheap policies.
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Under the bill, insurers could deduct the executives' full pay.
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To Paul, this is simply letting insurers charge the penalty.
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In theory, startups should provide valuable additions to insurers' toolbox.
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Insurers' apathy is energising reinsurers to innovate in their stead.
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Anthem and other legacy insurers are moving ahead to modernize.
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And what Medicare does influences the behavior of private insurers.
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Neither Medicare nor private health insurers directly pay for these.
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Prosecutors said they also defrauded insurers into paying for Subsys.
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The federal government pays these subsidies to health insurers directly.
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Fitch views the investment policy of both insurers as cautious.
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A lack of clear rules could still drive insurers out.
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For insurers, evaluating and underwriting policies is an expensive endeavor.
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Insurers are among the biggest debt investors in the country.
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The five companies are the largest insurers in the country.
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Mostly, employers and insurers are losing the price wars today.
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Health insurers have said they cannot plan amid the uncertainty.
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Life insurers have so far been slower to catch on.
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But America is not a friendly place for innovative insurers.
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Insurers don't like some of these changes on the merits.
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It also makes the Tennessee marketplace undesirable for health insurers.
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If Centene left, 90,000 Mississippi residents would have zero insurers.
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Since then turbulent markets have further affected insurers' balance sheets.
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"The low interest environment is negative for insurers," he said.
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In Maryland, insurers want to raise premiums by almost 45%.
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Insurers were also strong, with Saudi Arabian Cooperative Insurance 8100.
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That could change once regulators complete the rules for insurers.
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Cytora: Using AI to enable insurers to underwrite more efficiently
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Our rating Outlooks for most Italian life insurers remain Stable.
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The companies Fisher said he's most worried about are insurers.
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There will be 20 more insurers selling plans through HealthCare.
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Without that requirement, insurers have said, the market could collapse.
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There are going to be more insurers leveraging IoT devices.
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Other lines of evidence bear out the insurers' loss data.
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Hospitals and insurers are certain to fight the proposed rule.
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Insurers "ultimately make that call on their own," Forth says.
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Their interest has renewed in the past year, insurers say.
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Insurers and reinsurers have been making similar arguments for years.
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Private insurers and providers can still play an important role.
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But health insurers are responsible for covering the remaining share.
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He couldn't wait to share his findings with the insurers.
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That year insurers paid out a monumental $135bn in compensation.
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Insurers pay a large portion of seniors' initial drug costs.
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SCB Life Assurance is among the top insurers in Thailand.
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The defaults then prompted two bond insurers to file suit.
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Those government programs pay lower provider rates than private insurers.
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But insurers and PBMs are still turning large overall profits.
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Pharmaceutical companies, health insurers and others are part of PAHCF.
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To recoup those costs, insurers raised premiums on those plans.
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But private insurers paid nearly 20203% of patients' hospital costs.
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There are also 80 branches of insurers from the EEA.
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Several major banks and insurers weighed on the overall index.
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The funding came from insurers and an assessment on policyholders.
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The hospital industry has regional giants; insurers have national ones.
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Medicare Advantage insurers, meanwhile, pay similar prices to traditional Medicare.
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Ted Cruz that would let insurers waive all Obamacare regulations.
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Insurers all over the country have followed a similar pattern.
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The ratings on all of the insurers have been affirmed.
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In some cases, insurers interrupt treatments that are already underway.
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To use the service, insurers upload data about their properties.
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Establishes a reinsurance program to help insurers with expensive enrollees.
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Insurers are an overlooked part of that equation, she adds.
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Insurers like Passport, however, aren't naturally built for the job.
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"Numerous insurers will be involved requiring multiple payments," he said.
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Carlyle declined to comment on the position of the insurers.
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Insurers almost certainly would respond by seeking major premium hikes.
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Republicans have decried the program as a "bailout" of insurers.
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Under the bill, insurers can't place lifetime caps on enrollees.
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The big questions: How health insurers will cover the treatments?
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Insurers and pharmacy benefit managers likely will argue against it.
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And insurers had to pay out a record $138 billion.
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Medicaid insurers also fell with Centene Corp off 2.5 percent.
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Insurers, traditionally slow to embrace technology, need to catch up.
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Shares of other insurers designated systemically important rose, as well.
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Three major insurers have left the majority of their marketplaces.
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Silverstein has received several billion dollars from insurers to rebuild.
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The insurers said they plan to show that the Sept.
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Until last month, the insurers had been appealing a Sept.
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Private insurers lack the public legitimacy to reject dicey therapies.
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As a result, insurers have suffered from mispricing their plans.
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The biggest threat to the exchanges is insurers leaving them.
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Shares of the insurers were largely flat in extended trading.
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Insurers say these changes would help shore up their finances.
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Insurers must grant those discounts, by law, to qualified customers.
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Other U.S. winery insurers include the Travelers Companies and Chubb.
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Insurers can provide more protections for patients with surprise bills.
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Health insurers had to gain footholds in these new marketplaces.
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Financial stocks fell 693.343 percent, with insurers leading the losses.
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Does that mean the insurers can get whatever they want?
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The regulation did not tell insurers which services to offer.
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Insurers are betting that services will eventually pay for themselves.
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Further, regulators should not prevent insurers from offering renewable STLDI.
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Insurers have struggled to finance their obligations under the ACA.
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Facing losses, insurers either raised premiums or left the exchanges.
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Eventually, insurers would have no choice but to pull out.
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The federal government pays insurers to lower deductible and copayments.
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Insurers are squeezing pharmacies, paying them less to fill prescriptions.
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It is in network with 80 insurers, UnitedHealth has said.
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And some insurers are simply pulling out of the system.
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Health insurers are still pushing for a longer delay, though.
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Insurers corrected for that by raising premiums somewhat for 2016.
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Financial stocks lost 0.3 percent, with insurers leading the slip.
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The company is used by insurers, health systems, and employers.
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Insurers face regulators who may require that they do so.
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The startup plans to expand to new health insurers next.
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Insurers are exiting, leaving patients with fewer and fewer options.
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Pharmacies and hospitals sell to insurers, employers and ultimately patients.
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The reimbursements are worth billions of dollars annually to insurers.
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Patients and insurers usually pay providers for each service performed.
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Legacy insurers are also making their own investments or partnerships.
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Frank, who worked with mainstream insurers, didn't know about Bluebook.
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Most insurers are joint ventures between local and foreign partners.
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A total of 23 plans are available from two insurers.
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In fact, insurers, like the programs themselves, are simply adjusting.
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Narrowing the scope of your network helps insurers save money.
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Insurers and banks were the most active stocks in Riyadh.
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In 2014, Amtrak sued several insurers, including PartnerRe Ltd's PRE_pd.
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ObamaCare requires health insurers to provide full coverage to everybody.
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More predictability for insurers means more stability in the market.
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Anbang has been one of the most acquisitive Chinese insurers.
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Both insurers are due to report earnings on Aug. 9.
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The government then asks insurers to pick up the tab.
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Smaller insurers such as Peers are providing adequate insurance coverage.
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S. banks and insurers wary of processing transactions with Iran.
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Either that, or insurers will have to slash some benefits.
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Studies have shown that many insurers exclude treatments for obesity.
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Insurers that guessed wrong and had too many expensive customers.
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The IA's "fast track" for virtual insurers was that spark.
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Since then turbulent markets have further impacted insurers' balance sheets.
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Trump officials also gave the insurers a hefty rate increase.
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The insurers declined to comment on the judge's ruling Monday.
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This year, insurers nationwide are asking for significant premium increases.
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Annuities from insurers could provide some stable income, Pfau said.
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Health insurers are watching the emerging field, digital phenotyping, closely.
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But insurers were really unprepared for a market like that.
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Insurers had warned they would hike rates as a result.
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Some states, like Massachusetts, require insurers to offer I.V.F. coverage.
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But there has been substantial confusion among taxpayers and insurers.
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Some local insurers are already aligned with the meal services.
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That would require an unprecedented type of cooperation among insurers.
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The respondents comprised property funds, developers, insurers and individual investors.
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But insurers and PBMs deliberately hide these savings from patients.
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Private insurers must also make sure these services are covered.
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Insurers often cover naloxone, although they can require a copay.
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Insurers have a lot of price competition driving their actions.
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"All of a sudden our insurers are like, "Oh, no.
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Many saw big rate increases and insurers quitting in 2016.
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Health insurers and regulators say that hurts the ACA marketplaces.
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It's possible that some insurers may come into those counties.
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Insurers should also set aside funds to support these caregivers.
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Affiliations with large insurers could change that dynamic, he added.
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Meanwhile, insurers generally cover it as part of preventive care.
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They are not, however, requiring insurers to waive those costs.
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Why do so many private insurers fail to do so?
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For insurers, the losses will affect some more than others.
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The government also pays insurers for administrative and marketing expenses.
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Larger companies can still buy flood coverage through commercial insurers.
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Insurers could also be tapped to provide the unfunded facilities.
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Be sure to get quotes from at least three insurers.
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Some let insurers consider a customer's marital status and occupation.
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Also: Rebuilding New York's Penn Station; what health insurers want.
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At the start of this year, she also changed insurers.
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The ambivalence of the Trump administration has further spooked insurers.
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Some insurers cover the treatments, while others have denied payment.
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And more insurers might decide to leave already shaky markets.
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Insurers will reimburse PlateJoy for the cost of both tools.
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The insurers had initially pegged their claims at $20 billion.
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In 1992 Hurricane Andrew sent 11 insurers to the wall.
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Most probably, payouts will continue to rise without capsizing insurers.
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For larger charges, providers and insurers could turn to arbitration.
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Neither insurers nor residents are sure which disaster to blame.
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Without the subsidies, insurers say, they would sharply increase premiums.
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News media have reported on insurers that are giving up.
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Although the program only involves private insurers, CMS administers it.
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The payment anomaly disadvantages small insurers relative to larger ones.
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And few insurers are willing to bet against a certainty.
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The scheme also defrauded insurers into paying for the drug.
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But other insurers have emphasized they remain ambivalent about staying.
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Why are insurers like Cigna so focused on loneliness now?
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Share prices for insurers of Puerto Rican bonds also rose.
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From 2016, insurers will be required to report RBC positions.
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Insurers that just deliver products are a dime a dozen.
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I mean, they thought we were going to become insurers.
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But fewer insurers are participating, and premiums are increasing sharply.
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This difference does not mean that private insurers are evil.
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Other insurers followed in making codes the basis for billing.
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Some Republicans also oppose subsidies for insurers who cover abortion.
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Insurance brokers' stocks like Marsh & McLennan rose alongside the insurers.
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The insurers had initially pegged their claims at $20 billion.
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At some point insurers could withdraw completely from danger zones.
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It would enforce laws requiring insurers to cover addiction treatment.
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First, domestic and global insurers face the exact same rules.
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All of that turmoil in Washington has left insurers scrambling.
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Kempthorne is American Council of Life Insurers President and CEO.
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And there's a good chance that these insurers will prevail.
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Insurers, at least, seem to be aware of a problem.
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"You can imagine insurers saying it isn't worth the hassle."
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Even America's health insurers have spoken out against this legislation.
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UnitedHealth rose 6.3 percent and boosted its fellow health insurers.
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And that benefits one key area of the market: insurers.
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Medicare and other insurers help propel reliance on this treatment.
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So Nevada had multiple insurers making bids for those contracts.
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In response, some insurers had already raised rates for 2018.
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Since the election, health insurers have only gotten more skittish.
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Of greater concern, the case's very existence makes insurers nervous.
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In some ways, Medicaid is more generous than commercial insurers.
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That makes insurers the most convenient punching bag for politicians.
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Entrenched interest groups, particularly insurers, spent millions opposing the measure.
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She switched insurers again, to her current plan with Humana.
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Pitchers are particularly risky, as far as insurers are concerned.
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" The letter added that eliminating reimbursements to insurers for subsidies that lower customers' out-of-pocket health expenses "could result in insurer losses and solvency challengers, leading insurers to consider withdrawing from the market.
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The net operating cash flow of life insurers dropped 47 percent, while property and casualty insurers saw their positions swing to negative, said the source, who was not authorized to speak to the media.
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The goal of adding a public option would be to stabilize Obamacare, which has seen several large insurers downsize their presence and premiums rise as insurers try to deal with sicker-than-expected enrollees.
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It doesn't quite look like that, when you're inventing a new system that has insurers paying doctors and then insurers chasing down copayment for the doctors, instead of patients just making their copayments directly.
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However, House Republicans last year successfully challenged the legality of CSR reimbursements to insurers after a federal district court judge ruled that the Obama administration had been paying insurers without Congress appropriating the funds.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Insurers have pulled $20 billion out of coal investments, but most are European and none of the top nine U.S. insurers has taken "meaningful action", campaign group Unfriend Coal said on Wednesday.
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While the initial insurance payments will be made by Ethiopian Airlines' insurers, they may look to recoup their money from Boeing's insurers if they can prove that the aircraft was faulty, the sources said.
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Seventy percent of the value of Sanchi itself is covered by 11 international insurers, led by Norway's Skuld, with the other 30 percent covered by Iranian insurers, according to Skuld Chief Executive Stale Hansen.
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But she thinks insurers are okay with that — and enthusiastic about this regulation — because, coupled with the tighter special enrollment periods, insurers feel like they'll have a better grasp on who is signing up.
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In New York, 2628 insurers are asking state regulators to approve an average rate hike of 28503 percent, while 22019 insurers in Washington state want to increase premiums by an average of 19.08 percent.
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Big diversified insurers such as Allianz, Axa and Generali are expected to be strong enough to withstand market swings, while smaller insurers are seen as more vulnerable, past stress tests by EIOPA have shown.
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On Thursday night, the Trump administration said it would stop paying Obamacare insurers billions of dollars in reimbursements for discounts that insurers must give by law to low-income customers of their ACA plans.
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The lawsuit claimed two insurers were owed hundreds of millions of dollars from the program, which was created in 2014 to help cushion insurers from major losses during the early years of the law.
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Help insurers cover high-cost enrollees: States will have more flexibility to implement programs that help defray insurers' costs to cover those with pricey medical conditions, such as reinsurance programs or high-risk pools.
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A quick background if you're unfamiliar with the rebate system: PBMs and insurers demand drug manufacturers pay a significant fee — a rebate (perhaps better described as a kickback) — to get access to insurers' plans.
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Insurers have been asking Congress and the administration for certainty that they'll continue to receive cost-sharing reduction payments (CSRs), which compensate insurers for subsidizing the out-of-pocket costs for low-income enrollees.
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Much of the increase in prices was due to threats by the Trump administration to stop paying insurers reimbursements for discounts to out-of-pocket costs the insurers must offer low-income Obamacare customers.
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The healthcare sector was down 13 percent as health insurers and hospital operators tumbled on news that President Donald Trump scrapped billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies to private insurers for low-income Americans.
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Chief executives of 15 of Britain's biggest motor and commercial liability insurers were meeting finance minister Philip Hammond on Tuesday to ask him to stop the "crazy" decision, the Association of British Insurers said.
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The net operating cash flow of life insurers dropped 47 percent, while property and casualty insurers saw their positions swing to negative, said the source, who was not authorised to speak to the media.
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Title 1 includes the requirement that insurers cover 10 "essential health benefits" including maternity care and mental health services, and a mandate that all insurers cover preventive care without any cost to the patient.
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Beilenson argues larger insurers like Carefirst have spent "hundreds of millions of dollars" to figure out the government's formula to calculate risk adjustment, helping to position themselves for a bigger payday from other insurers.
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Although insurers are unlikely to convince Congress to solve their problem without wholesale reform to Obamacare, it looks like insurers are nevertheless – very quietly – figuring out how to get taxpayers to finance their losses.
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In Kansas, which actively sought coverage in counties that were at risk of being abandoned by insurers, Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer, a Republican, said that he does not expect insurers to pull out now.
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Regarding changes made with insurers in mind, Burwell pointed to actions her department has taken to tighten up the rules for extra sign-up periods that insurers said people used to game the system.
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These payments, which reimburse insurers for giving discounted deductibles and copayments to low-income customers, have been made on a monthly basis by the Trump administration, but insurers have asked for long-term certainty.
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Of note: In New York, life insurers can use social media posts to set premium rates — if insurers can prove that having that information won't lead to discriminatory practices, per the Wall Street Journal.
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A rise in securities class-action cases involving initial public offerings is spurring IPO insurers to double and triple prices for directors and officers coverage, or "D&O" coverage, insurers and brokers told Reuters.
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The problem of car stereo theft caught insurers flat-footed, according to the Times, which noted that insurers were initially unsure how to handle the claims when they first started popping up in the 1960s.
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Reinsurers, who help insurers shoulder the burden of large losses in return for part of the premium, meet next week at their annual conference in Monte Carlo to hammer out next year's deals with insurers.
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Under that program, which ends in 2017, insurers that had financial gains from their Obamacare business would contribute money to the risk-corridor pool, which would then be tapped to subsidize insurers that had losses.
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The Bank of England has warned UK insurers about such transactions, saying it would continue to challenge insurers to demonstrate that reductions in capital requirements that arise are commensurate with real risk transfer taking place.
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So Obamacare gave insurers a bit of wiggle room and said insurers could have a "de minimis" difference between the mandated and actual AV. The Obama administration interpreted "de minimis" to be 2 percentage points.
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Several insurers have sued the administration for funds they are owed under an ObamaCare program called risk corridors, which is meant to protect insurers from heavy losses in the early years of the health law.
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Risk adjustment made up one of the "three Rs" that constitute ObamaCare's program to stabilize health-care markets, as the program causes insurers with healthier customers to reimburse insurers with more expensive and sicker enrollees.
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The study noted premium increases will vary considerably across insurers and geographic areas in any policy scenario, because different insurers will have different expectations about how the cost of providing coverage will change in 2019.
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Among them are reforms to the Medicare program, a provision that requires insurers to cover young adults on their parents' policies, and requirements that health insurers sell policies to anyone regardless of their health history.
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"Higher-than-expected health care costs have jeopardized the financial solvency of some insurers and have caused other insurers to leave the exchange altogether," said James Augur, a regional vice president of Anthem in Connecticut.
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Major insurers have pulled out of the public marketplace in many states, citing multimillion-dollar losses, and state officials have approved rate increases of 25 to 50 percent or more for some insurers that remain.
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Based on existing investments, European insurers can expect annual returns of 2.4 percent, below the 2.7 percent minimum they need, according to a 2015 survey by Standard Life Investments of insurers managing 2.4 trillion euros.
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CVS and Aetna could disrupt the role of pharmacy benefit managers, which are companies that help insurers devise and run their drug benefits, including serving as middlemen in negotiating prices between insurers and drug manufacturers.
|
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The Obama administration attempted a fix, directing more federal oversight of the plans, requiring transparency from insurers on what they did, and did not, cover and setting guidelines for insurers to cover enough healthcare providers.
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The extension was announced in a memorandum that insurers received on Friday from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs the federal insurance marketplace and regulates insurers under the Affordable Care Act.
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Gerard Anderson, a professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, estimates that private insurers pay, on average, 220 percent what America's public insurers pay for the same treatments.
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In Britain, where a sixth of homes are at risk of flooding, government and insurers have set up Flood Re, a reinsurer that enables insurers to offer affordable premiums on 350,000 homes in flood plains.
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The program is designed to protect insurers against high costs for sicker enrollees in the early years of the law, but Republicans argue federal health officials have prioritized giving money to insurers over the Treasury.
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In any event, much of the money owed to insurers under Obamacare's risk corridor program — more than $12 billion in total — was never paid to insurers because of the rider seeking to block those payments.
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Trump, after all, cut off the law's cost-sharing reduction subsidies (which led insurers to hike their rates for 2018), and Congress repealed the individual mandate (for which insurers will hike their rates in 2019).
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The numbers are different because a handful of insurers, asset managers and exchanges - not banks - who responded in September did not do so this time, while a few new insurers and asset managers were added.
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The rule, as drafted, would also allow health insurers to refuse to cover contraception for religious or moral reasons, though the administration noted it was not aware of any health insurers that have those objections.
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Keep fighting the case, paying insurers the subsidies in the meantime.
|
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Yet the spike in claims did catch some insurers by surprise.
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Private insurers could only offer other benefits, such as cosmetic surgery.
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At stake are billions in payments to insurers with sicker customers.
|
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He warned of "turmoil" as insurers finalize their rates for 2019.
|
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The requirements, however, mean insurers typically lose money on these plans.
|
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"The ACA depends on the participation of private insurers," Levitt said.
|
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By July 2016, the insurers were called to their national service.
|
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Banks and insurers are seen increasing their earnings as rates rise.
|
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They were willing to keep a big tax on health insurers.
|
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Insurers expect biosimilars to be cheaper than original brands, like generics.
|
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But in reality, it could panic insurers and crash the marketplaces.
|
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Every dollar paid out comes from insurers' pockets, encouraging poor behaviour.
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At least flossing isn't costing consumers and insurers billions of dollars.
|
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But pricing was tempered last quarter due to competition among insurers.
|
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Insurers already priced for the changes, and premiums are coming down.
|
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Insurers also can't place annual or lifetime limits on these services.
|
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US insurers are also tapping the sector to help generate returns.
|
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The insurers know they're just selling a ticket to the courthouse.
|
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Now, however, insurers face unprecedented competitive pressure owing to technological change.
|
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Insurers are responding to technological disruption in a variety of ways.
|
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Many insurers may decide to pull out of the exchanges instead.
|
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MA plans are all the rage among hospital-owned insurers, too.
|
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But there are still deep concerns about insurers gaming the program.
|
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Regular gym insurers didn't know what to make of aerial yoga.
|
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Insurers justify the practice as necessary to correctly price auto policies.
|
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The government then asks insurers to pay the cost of contraceptives.
|
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That potentially would allow insurers to ignore the other state's laws.
|
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Insurers expect biosimilars, like generics, to be cheaper than original brands.
|
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Despite the industry's complaints, insurers say that they do offer cover.
|
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For political reasons, NFIP charges low premiums, pricing out private insurers.
|
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One reason why insurers impose step therapy is high drug prices.
|
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Insurers have long spread catastrophe risk by taking out reinsurance policies.
|
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This would greatly limit the scope of what insurers could offer.
|
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Insurers may refuse to cover patients on religious grounds as well.
|
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Insurers considering a rate increase must get approval from state regulators.
|
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To prevent bad negotiations wrecking their business, insurers have clubbed together.
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Under Obamacare, coverage for addiction treatment was made mandatory for insurers.
|
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Second, most drugs are paid for by insurers, not by consumers.
|
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American health insurers reduce premiums for non-smokers and exercise fanatics.
|
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Obamacare imposed a national standard for essential benefits required of insurers.
|
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While returns vary among insurers, according to the calculator at Immediateannuities.
|
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In some cases, insurers are abandoning the low-premium offering altogether.
|
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The allure is clear, with insurers counting on the steep discounts.
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Ban hospitals from including anticompetitive clauses in their contracts with insurers.
|
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The insurers had previously written off the value of the payments.
|
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Several million more will have bought similar plans direct from insurers.
|
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As a result, many insurers are losing money on the exchanges.
|
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"Perhaps the stakes are becoming too high for insurers," Walkiwicz writes.
|
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A lower medical care ratio is considered better for health insurers.
|
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In the longer term insurers face a more fundamental challenge: disintermediation.
|
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The clawbacks "substantially and unjustifiably impair ... contractual rights," the insurers allege.
|
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The companies are among the health insurers with exposure to ACA.
|
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Some insurers have also dabbled in corporate raiding, further angering authorities.
|
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And insurers can't charge them higher premiums because of their health.
|
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Unlike other insurers, everything Root is doing is handled on smartphones.
|
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Health insurers are getting awfully close to hitting the panic button.
|
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The agreement allows insurers to open branches in each other's jurisdictions.
|
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Reinsurance premiums paid by primary insurers are also likely to increase.
|
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Moreover, quality suffers when insurers or hospitals have no meaningful competition.
|
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Many insurers sell "skinny plans," and many healthy people buy them.
|
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But Kaleo said it expected many insurers to cover the product.
|
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Japanese insurers have been among the most aggressive in overseas acquisitions.
|
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But any expansion seems hazardous for health insurers at this time.
|
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Now, many of the larger insurers are looking to get out.
|
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Medicare and employer plans are still the profitable cathedrals of insurers.
|
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Insurers said costs were unlikely to rise in the short term.
|
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The company also blamed the restoration of a tax on insurers.
|
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For some insurers and reinsurers the risks have proven too big.
|
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Although Autonomous is more positive on insurers, but it's still cautious.
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The requirement that insurers cover "essential health benefits," including prescription drugs.
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S. insurers designated as a global systemically important insurer (G-SII).
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Critics say those aren't accurate because insurers negotiate those prices down.
|
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That, in turn, could mean insurers could dump customers, Levitt said.
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Insurers will then have to finalize their 2019 premiums next fall.
|
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Insurers use proprietary ranges in their ratings decisions, according to NerdWallet.
|
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He added that insurers would "always have robust procedures in place".
|
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Health insurers often categorized rape as a pre-existing health condition.
|
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It might be economically unfeasible for primary insurers to make concessions.
|
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Mainstream insurers find closed portfolios a distraction from underwriting new business.
|
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Cyclone Debbie, a tropical storm near Australia, also hurt some insurers.
|
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The projection assumes that insurers remain in the marketplace next year.
|
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Other health insurers also fell, including Aetna by nearly 3 percent.
|
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Insurers are still on the hook to provide those cost reductions.
|
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Insurers, however, have wide latitude under TRIPRA when drafting their exclusions.
|
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Often insurers have multiple plans with similar names but different networks.
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You've got an exchange where insurers have been losing money already.
|
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They have restricted Obamacare's ability to subsidize insurers who lose money.
|
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Additionally, the requirement that insurers cover preventative care will be discontinued.
|
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In other states, insurers are already pulling out of the market.
|
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Republicans are in talks with insurers about how to do that.
|
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Yet clearly it would be better to have more insurers involved.
|
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In the Netherlands two-thirds sits with pension funds and insurers.
|
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Obamacare prohibits insurers from imposing lifetime limits on essential health benefits.
|
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Eleven of these insurers also continue to underwrite fossil fuel projects.
|
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Insurers are also striking "value-based pricing" agreements with drug companies.
|
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But the committee's efforts may come too late for health insurers.
|
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Insurers often pay, so providers have an incentive to promote it.
|
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Unlike the Sanders proposal, it preserves a role for private insurers.
|
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Experts warned insurers could raise premiums due to the added uncertainty.
|
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The company's exit would leave 250 counties without any Obamacare insurers.
|
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Insurers should be held accountable for parity before plans are sold.
|
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Insurers have been pleading for certainty that the subsidy will continue.
|
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A similar problem hit Japanese insurers in the 1990s and 2000s.
|
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The company's exit would leave 2000 counties without any Obamacare insurers.
|
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Rather than be displaced by disruptive developments, insurers should be proactive.
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Fitch expects M&A activity involving French mutual insurers to accelerate.
|
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Insurers also backed away from the NRA, including MetLife and Chubb.
|
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It's legal to be a poor partner to wavering health insurers.
|
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Skyrocketing premiums resulted as insurers sought to cover prior-year losses.
|
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He pointed out that before ObamaCare, insurers' business was very different.
|
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All told, insurers say the government owes them nearly $12 billion.
|
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But after the battle with herself came the battle with insurers.
|
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And yes, as the NSSF warned, liability insurers will be watching.
|
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Even the government advises consumers to double-check with their insurers.
|
|
But that explanation did little to calm the nerves of insurers.
|
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But it's hardly the certainty that health insurers were asking for.
|
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And the number of insurers has dwindled to three from seven.
|
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It might make more sense for several insurers to pool resources.
|
|
Reinsurance could also be used to shield insurers from large payouts.
|
|
But health insurers are now expecting a significant drop in enrollment.
|
|
Insurers have been pushing a greater share of costs onto patients.
|
|
Some experts say that insurers also set their premiums too low.
|
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Like many Lloyd's of London insurers, Hiscox offers U.S. property insurance.
|
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Some insurers are dropping out, and others are sharply raising prices.
|
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The report 'Bermuda (Re)insurers Financial Performance' is available at www.fitchratings.
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Other backers include numerous Japanese banks and insurers and pension funds.
|
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That means that patients, insurers and government programs will pay more.
|
|
But upcoming research could convince other insurers to cover it, too.
|
|
But it seems clear that even the insurers here are struggling.
|
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Prior to that, he led the American Council of Life Insurers.
|
|
Legacy insurers have also been making their own investments or partnerships.
|
|
Turns out, insurers don't have to decrease spending to make money.
|
|
But the measure has received pushback from healthcare experts and insurers.
|
|
At the same time, insurers are operating increasingly complex, global businesses.
|
|
Apple has also been working with insurers like Aetna and UnitedHealthcare.
|
|
The remaining Medicare and Medicaid populations are managed by private insurers.
|
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First, we need to change how insurers pay for maternity care.
|
|
Catastrophe losses, however, will remain a threat to insurers' solvency stability.
|
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Most ACA markets are stabilizing, but others have lost all insurers.
|
|
His message last month to health insurers: You're doing it wrong.
|
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Insurers in several states are already seeking double-digit rate hikes.
|
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Automakers and insurers said they are dealing with the data issues.
|
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Insurers just don't know what the 2018 marketplace will look like.
|
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Insurers complain people are signing up only after they get sick.
|
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But other health insurers have taken big hits or gone under.
|
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Or insurers denying care for emergencies deemed "unnecessary" after the fact.
|
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Rural areas will likely be the first to see insurers leave.
|
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To traditional insurers, you are just the sum of your policies.
|
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Current law requires insurers to cover 10 categories of medical benefits.
|
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That's why insurers are so eager to operate their own PBMs.
|
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And that's more dangerous to existing insurers than any exploding hoverboard.
|
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And we have a very complicated marketplace and third-party insurers.
|
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They act as intermediaries between insurers, drug companies, pharmacies, and you.
|
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Insurers did take a hit in 22014, the year Obamacare started.
|
|
Yet shares of publicly traded hospital operators rallied along with insurers.
|
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Insurers are worried about the potentially destabilizing effects of the order.
|
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Insurers have already set their prices and made plans for 2018.
|
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Without them, premiums on the ObamaCare exchanges would spike, insurers warn.
|
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Lower readmission rates equal lower costs to Medicare and other insurers.
|
|
Medicare Advantage is controlled by private insurers rather than the government.
|
|
Plus, insurers like Centene and Humana are battling for members too.
|
|
Both insurers denied wrongdoing, according to the order, which they signed.
|
|
After years of losses, the insurers are now generally making money.
|
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And some private insurers may cover remote therapy while others don't.
|
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Insurers are still required to offer discounts to customers who qualify.
|
|
Many insurers have said they will waive fees for certain members.
|
|
Overlooked, however, is the control insurers have in access to care.
|
|
It could also encourage more insurers to bow out of Obamacare.
|
|
In turn, insurers have shifted more of those costs onto consumers.
|
|
It is unclear how much of that cost insurers would cover.
|
|
Hospitals tend to offer insurers bulk discounts for sending them customers.
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Public option, while restoring/protecting A.C.A. rules for private insurers. Yes.
|
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The information was collected from employers, some insurers and state agencies.
|
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Under the current system, private insurers negotiate with the drug companies.
|
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It's okay for some insurers to fall out of this market.
|
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That would then attract more people to enroll, increasing insurers' revenue.
|
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A companion bill would require insurers to provide free contraceptive coverage.
|
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However, insurers must submit documentation justifying how they rate those drivers.
|
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It includes the requirement that insurers offer coverage to all Americans.
|
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In seeking higher rates for 2019, insurers point to several developments.
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Insurers hire pharmacy benefit managers to help design their drug plans.
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Some insurers, especially state Medicaid programs, don't allow these extended fills.
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It drew bids from other large Dutch insurers Aegon and ASR.
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GE said that it is working with insurers to obtain increases.
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In addition, insurers must provide comprehensive benefits on the Obamacare exchanges.
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It also helps marine insurers to assess and optimize for risk.
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He pointed out that insurers are already selling 2017 health plans.
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As the market deteriorates, he thinks the insurers would leave again.
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Insurers are also raising rates for the reasons they usually do.
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That means that insurers could still change their minds and leave.
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The policy has been hard on insurers and pension funds, too.
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In Hong Kong, shares of insurers tumbled as AIA fell 3.42%.
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So far, however, many insurers are keeping price increases in check.
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The trouble is that insurers rarely sell those sorts of plans.
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But private insurers paid nearly 145% of their policyholders' hospital expenses.
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Insurers want to see similar rules put in place throughout Europe.
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Private insurers reward steps taken to limit risk with lower premiums.
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He expects interest in the financials sector, namely banks and insurers.
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Life insurers say such laws can be interpreted in different ways.
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The president also threatened to end government payments to health insurers.
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Insurers and employers will pay about $600 per patient, per year.
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The hope is that would lure more insurers into the market.
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Insurers are trying various ways to stop this "protection gap" growing.
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Insurers are also awaiting Senate hearings set to start on Sept.
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Some of the Blue Cross insurers, including Health Care Service Corp.
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This should accelerate private insurers to provide coverage for the test.
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That's expensive: Genetic sequencing costs about $5,000, and insurers rarely pay.
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But the final lineup of insurers is still several months away.
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Like insurers, residents are playing a game of risk and timing.
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State law already requires that insurers cover the cost of abortion.
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Amgen said insurers have approved just 44,2000 U.S. patients for Repatha.
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Insurers are also squeezing pharmacies, paying them less to fill prescriptions.
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Insurers had been hoping that a bipartisan bill proposed by Sens.
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Stocks and bonds are not meeting insurers' requirements; the Shanghai market .
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The deal would provide ObamaCare's cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers.
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Insurers are allowed to set rates only based on prior losses.
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And the state can't force insurers to pick up new customers.
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Shares of health insurers turned up after McCain announced his oppositions.
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How much will insurers make their customers pay for a drug?
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Four of the insurers did not substantially dispute Ms. Gentieu's research.
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LONDON (Reuters) - More than 40 percent of insurers see Google (GOOGL.
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The group also controls CNIA Saada, one of Morocco's biggest insurers.
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Insurers such as Allstate Corp use them to assess property damage.
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The number of insurers participating in the Obamacare marketplaces is falling.
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Unfortunately, Medicare doesn't actually spend less on administration than private insurers.
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ObamaCare only lets insurers charge older people three times as much.
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Other insurers had different questions and different cutoffs for price changes.
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The penalty for going without coverage would be administered by insurers.
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It has given insurers more wiggle room to raise their deductibles.
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Insurers have been pounding the drum about problems with ObamaCare pricing.
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More leverage with insurers often allows doctors to extract higher rates.
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Azar noted that commercial insurers often mimic payment models under Medicare.
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Insurers say they also want to keep customers in health plans.
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Some private insurers pay for the necessary doctors' visits and drugs.
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To some of my physician colleagues, health insurers are the enemy.
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Anthem is one of the largest health insurers in the country.
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The clawbacks "substantially and unjustifiably impair ... contractual rights," the insurers alleged.
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Meanwhile, the HIT was self-explanatory: a tax on health insurers.
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Insurers need to submit plans to regulators in April and May.
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There's no guarantee that the insurers will prevail in Maine Community.
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Many of Obamacare's rules for health insurers are specified in law.
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But then Congress pulled the rug out from under these insurers.
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The report "Chinese Life Insurers' Peer Review" is available at www.fitchratings.
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Bumiputera had sounded out some foreign insurers for a strategic investment.
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The agreement represents "a huge positive" for insurers, according to BTIG.
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It said not all insurers would need to raise more capital.
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But for the remaining insurers, there is a silver lining: monopoly.
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Most, but not all, insurers limit coverage to common household pets.
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Asked if they would sell data to insurers, Laraki responded definitely.
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Faced with enormous financial losses, many insurers would flee the market.
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Insurers are still required to provide coverage to anyone who applies.
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For example, last year, a lot of insurers left the market.
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That would offset insurers' costs of covering members with serious illnesses.
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Once the patient is treated Watsi sends the money—like insurers.
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They could not repeal the rules on health insurers through reconciliation.
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The idea of repealing the mandate to have health coverage while continuing to bar insurers from discriminating against sicker customers has worried insurers, who would be faced with potentially fewer customers overall, but steeper benefit costs.
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Insurers warned a congressional subcommittee Wednesday morning that Congress needs to continue Obamacare's cost-sharing subsidies and provide clarity on premium subsidies in the "next 30 days" so insurers can make a decision on 2018. Sen.
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Private health insurers exist at the core of the American economy; as the New York Times pointed out this weekend, insurers' stocks are a staple of the mutual funds that often make up our retirement accounts.
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The survey, looking at investment trends by insurers over the past five years, also found that bond portfolios increased and that big insurers invested increasingly in non-traditional assets like infrastructure, mortgages, loans and real estate.
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In its suit, Highmark claims federal officials at first said that risk-corridor payments due to insurers would be made in full, even if there was not enough money collected from profitable insurers, the Journal reported.
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Insurers had been hoping to see an increase because those consumers tend to be relatively healthy, so money from their premiums is available to help insurers pay for the care of people who are less healthy.
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Bulk annuity deals involve insurers taking over the management of a company's final salary pension scheme and are becoming more common as businesses look to reduce their risks and insurers look for new sources of income.
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The probe revolves around whether the now-defunct Philidor made false statements to insurers about its ties to Valeant, and whether insurers thought Philidor was neutral rather than in the service of Valeant, the Journal reported.
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Payments to insurers will vary under the 2017 Medicare Advantage proposal, based on the region the plans are sold and on the size of bonus payments insurers can receive based on quality ratings, the government said.
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But it also shows that the unclear signals from the Trump administration about whether it will pay insurers' subsidies, and whether it will enforce the individual mandate, are already forcing insurers to charge more for coverage.
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The first lays out 10 essential health services an insurer must cover, the second bars insurers from charging sick people higher premiums, and the third prevents insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.
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The Trump administration is reportedly working on some new regulations that would help insurers attract a healthier mix of people — some of the exact changes that insurers have clamored for but never got under President Obama.
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Also on Wednesday, CIRC said it had suspended two insurers from online insurance business and ordered them not to apply for new product approvals for three months - the latest move to put insurers under closer supervision.
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According to the U.S. International Trade Commission, eliminating foreign barriers for U.S. property and casualty insurers would allow insurers to collect $40 billion more annually in trade and create new jobs to support the business growth.
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Without CSRs -- funding the federal government gives to insurers to reduce health care costs of low-income people -- health care experts have warned that insurers could leave the Obamacare marketplace or raise premiums in the future.
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The Trump administration will immediately stop making critically important payments to insurers who sell Obamacare health plans, a bombshell move that is expected to spike premium prices and potentially lead many insurers to exit the marketplace.
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It would allow young people to stay on their parents' health plan until age 26, ban insurers from discriminating against those with pre-existing conditions and bans insurers from setting a lifetime dollar limit on coverage.
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A coalition — called Consumers for Health Options, Insurance Coverage in Exchanges in States (CHOICES) — of mostly small, nonprofit health insurers met Monday to discuss legal options regarding the payments, over which several insurers are already suing.
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Mr. Krugman's latest prescription for what ails the Affordable Care Act is to give insurers even more taxpayer dollars, both in the form of greater premium assistance to consumers and risk subsidies to the insurers themselves.
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California's Obamacare marketplace said Thursday it will require insurers submit two sets of proposed prices for health plans next year because of continued uncertainty over whether the federal government will continue reimbursing insurers for crucial subsidies.
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One of the biggest sources of uncertainty is the Trump administration's refusal to guarantee permanent continuation of billions of dollars worth of reimbursements to insurers for discounts that insurers must offer many Obamacare customers by law.
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Anthem's decision, which came on the day of the deadline for insurers to sign contracts for Obamacare plans in 2018, will leave Maine with just two insurers selling plans widely when open enrollment starts Nov. 1.
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The news will be thick with stories of counties where insurers jack up premiums to manage the market upheaval, and there will likely be some areas that find themselves with no insurers offering coverage at all.
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Premiums are going up because many insurers underpriced plans when they started selling policies in 2013; not enough healthy, younger people signed up; and those who did used more medical care than the insurers had anticipated.
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While Mr. Trump has insisted he will not support any legislation that he believes to be a bailout to the insurers, policy experts say the insurers are getting only what they are due under the law.
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Life insurers have distinctly long view on investment, especially compared to banks; 6900 percent of bonds held by life insurers have a maturity of five years or more, compared to just 2628 percent for commercial banks.
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By manipulating a system that now precludes insurers from rejecting customers with pre-existing medical conditions, consumers are avoiding the purchase of insurance when they are healthy and rushing in when they need it, insurers say.
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Republicans fear that the administration could settle the lawsuits with the insurers as a way to get money to them and help make up the shortfall, which the GOP says would constitute a "bailout" of insurers.
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The bill would keep as the default that insurers accept and charge fair premiums to people with pre-existing conditions, although states could get waivers to let insurers charge them more or provide them less benefits.
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The biggest problem for insurers is that they don't know if the Trump administration will continue federal subsidies known as cost-sharing reductions that allow insurers to lower out-of-pocket costs for low-income consumers.
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Because C.M.S. announced its new rules in April, and insurers had to submit proposals last month, "there was very little time for the plans to mobilize," said John Gorman, a consultant for many Medicare Advantage insurers.
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Pharmacy benefit managers and insurers warn that eliminating rebates could face legal hurdles, and said that the move could wind up raising consumers' premiums because insurers and employers use their rebate payments to plug other holes.
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The bill's proposed changes in Medicaid funding could hurt smaller, less diverse health insurers, Fitch Ratings said, and the unintended, unforeseen consequences of a bill this size are likely to create uncertainty for all health insurers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Pay-outs by trade credit insurers in Britain rose to an eight-year high of 225 million pounds ($314 million) last year, reflecting difficult trading conditions, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said on Friday.
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But some states did not allow insurers to hike their prices in the expectation of CSR payments ending, and some of those insurers may decide to pull out of the marketplace before open enrollment begins on Nov.
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"It will give us the first indication of what the ballpark rate increases are, what counties have insurers and which ones don't," says Robert Laszewski, an industry consultant who works with insurers that sell on the marketplace.
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A ratio of 100 percent means insurers have set aside enough capital under the solvency rules to cover underwriting and other risks, but analysts prefer to see a buffer of at least 13 percent for life insurers.
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The mandate's repeal could also drive some insurers out of the market, at a time when some parts of the country have already been at risk of having no insurers to sell plans through the ACA marketplaces.
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Unlike Sanders's, Harris's plan would include a substantive role for private insurers, which would still be able to offer plans under a tightly regulated system, similar to the way that private insurers currently do through Medicare Advantage.
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LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Britain should commit to transitional arrangements after it leaves the European Union, or insurers may leave the country ahead of Brexit, the director general of the Association of British Insurers said on Wednesday.
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We do not expect losses linked to the recent earthquake in central Italy to have a significant impact on insurers' underwriting profits (see Fitch: Limited Impact from Earthquake for Italian Insurers dated 26 August 2016 on www.fitchratings.com).
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The payments, worth $7 billion or so to insurers this year and up to $10 billion or more next year, reimburse insurers for discounts in out-of-pocket health costs they give to low-income Obamacare customers.
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In Britain, a rule change earlier this year means people injured by a vehicle, like those targeted in the Westminster and London Bridge attacks, can now seek compensation from insurers or the industry-backed Motor Insurers' Bureau.
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By Brendan Pierson A national insurance industry group has lost a lawsuit challenging fees the District of Columbia collects from insurers to fund its health insurance exchange, even from insurers that do not participate in the exchange.
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Unlike in countries with national health systems, in the United States few insurers and no government insurers cover the procedure (except in some cases for veterans injured in service), which basically restrict its availability to affluent patients.
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"(The regulator) is urging insurers, especially life insurers, to focus on long-term value creation business by selling more protection component products and take a more prudent investment strategy," said Qian Zhu, an insurance analyst at Moody's.
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One of the things he's said is that we're going to let insurers compete across state lines, but there are places where insurers are allowed to compete across state lines and there are no cost savings there.
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It has taken several years to get to anywhere near equilibrium and profitability for the participating insurers, and there are parts of the country where insurers refuse to sell coverage because they say costs are too high.
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The Zebra's analysis, conducted from September to December, is based on more than 60 million quotes from insurers as well as public rate information filed with insurance regulators by the top 10 auto insurers in each state.
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Because rates are normally a closely held secret between insurers and hospitals, the RAND study reveals a startling first glimpse of how much — and how steep a price — a broad swath of hospitals are charging private insurers.
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It would have limited how much hospitals could charge insurers for out-of-network emergency care, according to California Healthline, and hospitals said it would have given insurers too much incentive to exclude hospitals from their networks.
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In China, markets were dampened by news the insurance regulator was making it much harder for insurers to get new licences, in the latest move to rein in some insurers' aggressive stock investments that have raised concerns.
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Yet recent disclosures by CVS Health and Express Scripts — the two biggest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), which are middlemen between drug manufacturers and insurers — suggest a different culprit for rising out of pocket drug costs: insurers themselves.
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After years in which many insurers lost money, then lost even more in 2015, "we are seeing the first signs in 2016 that this market could be manageable for most health insurers," the Standard & Poor's analysts said.
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Insurers generally require prior authorization before they will pay for the drugs, and their decisions usually depend on "whether patients meet specific criteria," said Kristine Grow, a spokeswoman for America's Health Insurance Plans, which represents private insurers.
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Some major insurers have left the program after taking deep financial losses.
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Trump's key subsidies cut seen damaging hospitals, insurers ** Financials fall 0.9 pct.
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Once insurers complete the background check, then the personal questions will begin.
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It's also unlikely to reverse the trend of insurers exiting state markets.
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Insurers, on the other hand, are sitting at the table negotiating prices.
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Many UK insurers also have a purely domestic focus, insurance specialists say.
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It is also extremely costly for insurers, employers and state funded programs.
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AXA is one of the biggest insurers of large properties in Britain.
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Many insurers are waffling over where to sell insurance plans in 0003.
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The government then asks insurers to pick up the tab for contraception.
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Insurers have to begin filing their 2018 plans and premiums in April.
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Any enrollment growth would be a good signal to insurers, Levitt added.
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Since the planned $34 billion merger of health insurers Aetna Inc AET.
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Insurers use reinsurance to limit the maximum costs of any individual claim.
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This ratio is riskier than the median for Fitch 'A' rated insurers.
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Two more insurers had yet to settle with the archdiocese, he said.
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Prosecutors said they also defrauded insurers into paying for the pain treatment.
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The Affordable Care Act imposed a lot of new regulations on insurers.
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Meanwhile, some insurers that were initially bullish on Obamacare are turning bearish.
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Many insurers, however, typically view ex-convicts as too high a risk.
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Medipay in Indonesia provides APIs that connect medical service providers with insurers.
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In 22011 insurers' costs were 211% higher than their revenue from premiums.
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UK motor insurers include FTSE companies Admiral, Direct Line, esure and Hastings.
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But if they had, a lot of insurers would have become insolvent.
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Insurers are, in turn, passing on this cost to better-off Americans.
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The Iowa program allowed private insurers to take over the state program.
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But when insurers made losses, Republicans in Congress blocked the "bail-out".
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The responsibility to make the payments would then fall to bond insurers.
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Most American states still do not require insurers to cover infertility treatment.
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Foundation and Thermo said they are talking to private insurers about coverage.
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The regulator reiterated insurers' regulatory obligations for overseeing outsourcing arrangements in 2015.
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The ACA limits such payments for low-earners, and reimburses insurers accordingly.
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Atrium also can't dictate how insurers include competing providers in their networks.
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Insurers face many hurdles, however, to becoming service providers and risk consultants.
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Mr Trump has blamed health insurers and congressional Republicans for the mess.
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Pharmacies are getting paid less to fill prescriptions as insurers squeeze them.
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Insurers dipped 0.2 percent from a 14-month peak hit on Wednesday.
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It's an impressive group spanning the mobility space from automakers to insurers.
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And while insurers get a bad rap, Baldwin says it's mostly undeserved.
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Insurers had also been sucked in, selling short-term, high-yield products.
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Are health-care providers gaming Obamacare to get more money from insurers?
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Higher U.S. yields were seen as boosting investment returns for Japanese insurers.
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Three insurers gave figures ranging from 433,96 pounds to 2317 million pounds.
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Private insurers would continue to exist under Sanders' "Medicare for All" proposal.
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The insurers would also be able to charge older sicker, patients more.
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We're also seeing a potentially unholy alliance between insurers and tech companies.
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First, the ACA requires insurers to cover a minimum share of costs.
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And only 33 percent of the country had two or fewer insurers.
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For insurers, larger markets are more attractive with lower customer acquisition costs.
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But when he and Lankford began contacting insurers, they were soon bewildered.
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So why don't health insurers in those states and territories cover it?
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Insurers reckon a dollar spent on such measures saves five in reconstruction.
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Insurers quitting Obamacare certainly make more headlines than those joining the market.
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Ship insurers also said had been no impact on the region's trading.
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August 16: Health insurers make final adjustments to their proposed 2018 premiums.
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Between the lines: The strength of insurers' coal-exit policies varies widely.
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And who knows what surprises might lurk on insurers' revised balance-sheets?
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This data then helps determine the rate insurers charge drivers for coverage.
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The PBMs, which serve as middlemen between drugmakers and insurers, were opposed.
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It's really hard for insurers to exclude a hospital from their network.
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"It's a tough environment for life insurers," said Brett Horn of Morningstar.
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Either insurers would go belly-up, or premiums would become prohibitively expensive.
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For instance, some states require all insurers to charge the same rate.
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This has prompted some European insurers to diversify their sources of revenue.
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Once again, insurers responded to these charges with statistics and mathematical models.
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In this initial phase, EDIS would only provide loans to national insurers.
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House: Would still require insurers to cover people with pre-existing conditions.
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However, two previous attempts to sell one of Israel's biggest insurers failed.
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Even under the Obama administration, fewer and fewer insurers wanted to participate.
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Any scrutiny or changes in payment policies will affect those insurers most.
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Prosecutors said Kapoor also sought to defraud insurers into paying for Subsys.
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Insurers say Obamacare patients are sicker and more costly than they thought.
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Cory Booker have said private insurers should not be shut out entirely.
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Health insurers Aetna and Wellmark already confirmed they are withdrawing for 2018.
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The first quarter of the year is usually good for health insurers.
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Already, the uncertainty is prompting some insurers to drop out for 2018.
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This is supported by the strong capital adequacy of company market insurers.
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Centene and HealthNet, two smaller insurers, had their merger approved in March.
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Insurers by law have to offer those lower charges to qualified customers.
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Still, early filings already show several insurers requesting double-digit rate increases.
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Like many insurers, Metromile seeks to cherry-pick the least risky customers.
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Then there is Paul's strongest objection: the stabilization funding for health insurers.
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It may also spare health providers and insurers many expensive hospital admissions.
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Insurers are raising rates, deductibles, and copays even more this coming year.
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The large majority of these insurers maintained scores of "Strong" or better.
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He likes the idea that insurers have to offer coverage to everybody.
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Insurers and reinsurers continued to count the cost of hurricanes this season.
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