The Maine Bureau of Insurance said Monday that it conducted 435 investigations on behalf of insurance customers.
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State to merge health insurance markets in bid to help small businesses
State insurance regulators said the merger of the individual and small group markets will promote price stability and lower premiums.
66,000 Mainers enroll in first year of state health insurance marketplace
More than 80% of them are receiving financial assistance.
Maine Voices: University abandons students’ health care needs
Financially strapped students can no longer get coverage through the University of Maine, leaving many in the lurch.
Nearly 60,000 sign up for health insurance via new Maine marketplace
The signups represents an increase from last year, when Maine was still using the federal HealthCare.gov platform
Commentary: Rare form of slow-moving cancer can hide behind common symptoms
Symptom awareness of carcinoid cancer, my husband’s killer, is the key to earlier diagnoses, which can in turn save lives.
Most Maine health plans no longer waive patient costs for COVID-19 treatment
Only one major insurer, Community Health Options, is bucking the national trend and waiving cost-sharing for COVID-19 patients through the end of the year.
Controversial new Alzheimer’s drug gives patients in Maine hope
The treatment developed by Biogen could slow its progression, but health professionals and researchers are divided on whether the FDA was right to approve it.
U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to Obamacare
The justices left the entire law intact in a ruling handed down Thursday morning.
Waterville residents advocate for emergency insulin program
A 14-year-old boy, his mother and a woman who lost her son to Type 1 diabetes and the high cost of insulin testified before a legislative panel last week at a public hearing in support of LD 673, “An Act to Create the Insulin Safety Net Program.”