health insurance

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Maine and Scarborough-based Coastal Women's Healthcare announced Tuesday that they've reached an agreement on a contract.

Fore River Urology, an independent medical practice in South Portland, says it will no longer be an in-network provider as of August 1 for patients with commercial Anthem plans and as of September 1 for patients with Anthem Medicare Advantage coverage.

Committee members are trying to decide what actions to take in their role of providing oversight of both the state employees' health plan and the Maine's Bureau of Insurance, which is conducting a review of Anthem.

Earlier this month, the state announced that the federal government had approved Maine's plan to run its own marketplace. On Thursday, officials announced that with open enrollment beginning next month, the state has created a new online tool offering more data on the 71 plans on the marketplace.

The advocacy group Consumers for Affordable Health Care is urging uninsured Mainers to take advantage of a special enrollment period for health insurance available on the federal Marketplace before it ends this Sunday.

Health insurance rates for Mainers who buy individual coverage will be down an average of just over 13% in the coming year.That is according to new…

A new study on hospital prices from the RAND corporation finds that patients with private insurance in Maine pay nearly three times what Medicare would…

Thursday lawmakers on the Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Committee considered two bills that would limit the use of short term health insurance.…

Drug prices are a problem in the United States for patients and insurance companies. To control costs, insurers sometimes use a tool called step therapy.…

A program that’s expected to lower premiums on Maine’s individual health insurance market is set to take effect next January. That’s also when one of the…