Md. benefit exchange approves plan on risk adjustments
The board of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange voted Friday on a solution to an issue where the state’s new reinsurance program could cause duplicative payments under the Affordable Care […]
Maryland regulator evaluating CMS risk adjustment decision
Maryland health insurance stakeholders face some questions after the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said over the weekend that it would stop collecting and making risk adjustment payments in […]
Evergreen to liquidate after no new investors found
Evergreen Health will be liquidated and its enrollees will have to find new insurance plans by the end of September, a Baltimore City judge ruled last week. Judge Yolanda Tanner […]
Significantly higher insurance premiums approved for 2018 on Md. health exchange
Marylanders insured through the individual health exchange will see substantially higher premiums in 2018, though not as high as insurers wanted, after Maryland Insurance Commissioner Al Redmer approved final rates […]
Beilenson out at Evergreen as health insurer enters receivership
Dr. Peter Beilenson has resigned as CEO of Evergreen Health as the company entered court-ordered receivership. Beilenson had founded the insurer as an Affordable Care Act co-op. He attempted to […]
Evergreen’s demise creates possibilities for new insurers in Md.
New companies looking to enter the Maryland individual insurance market could find an easier path with the collapse of Evergreen Health this week. Any new Maryland carrier would have to […]
Evergreen’s demise leaves two insurers on Md. health exchange
Maryland’s individual health exchange will only have two insurers next year after a deal to buy Evergreen Health fell apart this week, leading the state’s insurance regulator to freeze its […]
Evergreen and Kaiser make case for higher premiums in Md.
Evergreen Health and Kaiser Permanente made their case for health insurance rate increases at a Maryland Insurance Administration hearing Monday, citing high costs, CareFirst‘s rate increase request of 50 percent […]
Turmoil on Maryland’s health insurance exchange
One Maryland insurer dropped out of the Maryland individual health insurance market, another projected double-digit enrollment declines and two more refiled to ask for rate increases higher than previously requested […]
Evergreen Health can become for-profit insurer, Md. regulator says
Maryland Insurance Commissioner Al Redmer Wednesday approved Evergreen Health‘s application to convert from an insurance co-op to a for-profit insurer. The sale of Evergreen to Anne Arundel Medical System, JARS […]
Md. insurance regulator hears Evergreen’s case to become for-profit
Evergreen Health and its investors made their case in a public hearing Wednesday that converting the Affordable Care Act co-op into a for-profit health insurance provider would be in the public […]
Rate hike requests will test future of Md. health insurance exchange
High rate increase requests have left health insurance regulators in Maryland with this challenge: At a time when insurers are pulling out of the individual markets in state after state, […]













