Texas Insurers Could Send Rebates Next Year — Maybe
Topics: Insurance, Health Costs, Health Reform, States
Dec 23, 2011
KUHF's Carrie Feibel, working in partnership with Kaiser Health News, NPR and KUHF, reports: "Starting in 2012, health insurance plans in Texas -- and most of the rest of the country -- may have to cough up millions of dollars in rebates to customers. The rebates will come from health plans that spend too much on administrative costs instead of medical care" (Fiebel, 12/23). Read the story.
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