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Shares rocketed upward in trading yesterday, rising about 21% based on the announcements from the GAO and Government Reform Committee.

A Blues plan enables members to create PHRs, using Google Health, that automatically populate with claims data, and can link to select EHRs.

The Senator's plan would establish a timeline for accelerating the development, adoption and implementation of a set of operating rules for each HIPAA transaction.

Centurion, Fidelity and National Life are just a few insurers seeing ratings changes.

Department of Health and Human Services allocates $25 million for medical liability pilot initiative.

A new study says that nearly 26,000 state and federal rules impacting the insurance industry will change or be created this year.

Pressure to pass health care has reforms picked up additional momentum as the American Journal of Public Health released statistics tied to mortality for uninsured Americans.

While economists can't exactly predict the future, they can tell us what policies will fail.

A mid-year report from IBM confirms that the World Wide Web is a very insecure place.

AIG board puts kibosh on plans of new CEO to use company jet for personal use, Bloomberg says.

New report finds the industry spent $15.5 million lobbying Congress in the first half of 2009.

Gulf Coast construction standards are 'woefully inadequate' to withstand storm flooding, study finds.

Study’s findings of a lack of FCPA compliance, coupled with a potential increase in federal enforcement activities, could prove a perfect storm for D&O insurers.

Odds are more than a few insurers' IT projects were scrapped this year, but does it need to be that way going forward?

Organization of mutual insurers says that seeking to apply the Community Reinvestment Act to insurance companies would be “forcing a square peg into a round hole.”

Baucus’ bill proposes to expand coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans by creating nonprofit health insurance cooperatives, which require a $6B “fee” from the health insurance, pharma and clinical stakeholders to fund them.

Consequential bills will advance in House in the coming weeks, NAMIC says.

While insurers have unique challenges differentiating them from other industries, this shouldn’t deter efforts to apply BPM across the board.

Federal official says havoc ahead if Congress allows NFIP to lapse.

Customer data is the lifeblood of the insurance industry, but should the government be in charge of its safekeeping?