4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (473+ words) A federal appeals court has struck down a California law aimed at curbing dialysis-driven distortion of insurance risk pools. On April 7, the Ninth Circuit found that three of five challenged provisions of California Assembly Bill 290 violate the First Amendment. The…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (430+ words) Insurance Business HCF Research Foundation opens grants for mental health service models Program supports research on acute distress and gendered care outcomes The HCF Research Foundation has opened expressions of interest (EOIs) for its 2026 Health Services Research Grants, with priority…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (459+ words) Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Risant Health face opposition to their request to modify the acquisition plan for Geisinger Indemnity Insurance Co. and related entities by lowering risk-based capital requirements. The companies filed the modification request with the Pennsylvania Insurance Department…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (384+ words) PMI-funded private health admissions hit a new high in the first nine months of 2025, as patients continued to turn to the private sector to bypass NHS delays, according to new analysis from Broadstone." The independent consultancy's review of PHIN and…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (504+ words) Australians referred to rehabilitation within six weeks of an injury or illness returned to work at a rate of 79%, but most are waiting nearly nine times that long for a referral, Swiss Re data shows. The findings come from Rehabilitation…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (573+ words) Policy-price increases from all of Ireland's main health insurers have either just taken effect or are due in the coming weeks, underlining the pressure that rising claims and medical inflation are placing on the private health insurance market. At the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (426+ words) Sun Life is adding a dedicated menopause support pathway to its virtual care offering." The new service, delivered through Dialogue and available to plan members and dependents with Lumino Health Virtual Care,"provides structured clinical support for menopause. It offers…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (313+ words) The Empire Life Insurance Company has expanded its group benefits offering with a caregiver support program delivered through Teladoc Health Canada's'Mental Health Navigator service. Effective March 1, the Teladoc Health Caregiver Program is being integrated into existing extended health benefit plans…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (863+ words) Insurance Business Self-described Medi Map hacker reports erasing seized health data Outage forces clinicians back to paper prescribing and charts An individual claiming responsibility for the Medi Map data breach says they have deleted information taken from the platform, while…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (648+ words) Proposed amendments to the UK's online safety regime could accelerate the liability phase of generative AI, raising sharper questions for insurers around regulatory exposure and coverage design. The Online Safety Act was introduced in 2019, before mainstream generative AI emerged, and…...