Compensation Issues

The Delaware Department of Insurance approved premium rate increases for two insurers offering on exchange individual plans for 2017.

The following insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.

Health insurer Humana will drop its Medicare Advantage plan in California's Santa Cruz County for 2017, Santa Cruz Sentinel Business reports.

Geisinger Health Plan and Hackensack Meridian Health ended a four-year collaboration on their Medicare Advantage plan — Geisinger Gold — and will not offer the plan in New Jersey for 2017.

The Iowa Insurance Division said 13 rural counties will house one insurer offering individual health plans on the state's Affordable Care Act exchange next year.

Figures released by CMS show that U.S. government health plans spent more than $1 billion on Mylan's EpiPens in a five-year period, reports Reuters.

A new study from PwC's Risk Assurance practice shows that healthcare providers and payers are often not aligned when it comes to navigating risk management challenges.

Health insurance startup Oscar Health will transfer its New York City operations to a new office in Tempe, Ariz., an Oscar spokesperson confirmed.

Health insurers Aetna and Humana said the U.S. Department of Justice belated releasing sought-after documents that would help the insurers defend their proposed $37 billion transaction, Hartford Courant reports.

Pregnant women within a specific income bracket will no longer be automatically dropped from Covered California and transferred to Medi-Cal, as a computer malfunction attributed to the problem was fixed, California Healthline reports.