Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, has warned U.S. Department of Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and National ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

A Kaiser Family Foundation study confirms other reports that the pandemic has added to health insurer profits and margins, but that the impacts of pent-up consumer demand for delayed care and of ...

Nationwide, states are unveiling health reform proposals dealing with insurance company loss ratios. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) have both introduced ...

People don’t like uncertainty. In times of change, however, the unknown dominates the landscape. For health insurance brokers, the new health care reform legislation has created uncertainty of ...

We have bad news about insurance companies almost every day: fines over alleged rescissions, settlements for unfair business practices, and other various and sundry other problems. Under these ...

Despite a year of great uncertainty and lower than usual healthcare spending, payers appeared to have remained profitable through 2020, a new report shows. The report, issued by the Kaiser Family ...

Health care regulations in the United States were not designed to keep Americans healthy. The best example of this is what’s known as the medical loss ratio (MLR). This federal requirement establishes ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that health insurance plans spend a certain amount of premium dollars on medical care and quality improvement, known as a minimum medical ...

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines the requirements outlined in the Affordable Care Act concerning "medical loss ratios" (the percentage of ...

Len Finocchio ([email protected]) is a principal consultant at Blue Sky Consulting Group, in Oakland, California. Katrina Connolly is a senior consultant at Blue Sky Consulting Group. As a consumer ...