Health insurance startup Bright Health picks up another $160 million quoting : Mobi Health News

Bright Health, the Minnesota-based health insurance startup that boasts "a smarter, more connected" experience, has raised a new round of $160 million. The raise follows an $80 million round from Bright Health in April of last year, bringing the company's total funding to $240 million. One of a handful of startups trying to disrupt the behemoth health insurance industry, Bright Health plans to partner with specific providers so that it can focus more fully on supporting the relationship between doctor and patient. Bright Health is currently operating in Colorado, offering its plans direct to consumers through public and private exchanges. Bright Health collaborates with these systems to create a proprietary Care Partnership.




Photo: John Burgeson / Hearst Connecticut Media Health care employees fed up with late paychecks, unpaid insurance 1 / 1 Back to GalleryBRIDGEPORT — The 400 employees of the Bridgeport Health Care Center at the foot of Bond Street say that they're fed up with the management short-changing their health insurance plan and paying them late. Health care employees fed up with late paychecks, unpaid insurancePhoto: John Burgeson / Hearst Connecticut Media Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 AFSCME Local 1522 President Anna Montalvo and shop steward Charles Cravatas said that the 400 employees of Bridgeport Health Care Center are fed up with late paychecks and unpaid health insurance premiums. AFSCME Local 1522 President Anna Montalvo and shop steward Charles Cravatas said that the 400 employees of Bridgeport Health Care Center are fed up with late paychecks and unpaid health insurance premiums. "Our members are finding that the money taken out for health insurance isn't being sent to the insurance company," said Montalvo. "Our health insurance claims are not being paid, and because of that, some owe into the six figures to their doctors and hospitals," said Anna Montalvo.

Health insurance companies guessing at 2018 prices, as Trump sows uncertainty

The Trump administration and House of Representatives Republicans say Obamacare, not Trump, has been reckless from the start. B. Silvers, a former insurance executive who teaches health care finance at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management, said. The feature is one way the federal government until now has picked up a share of health care costs for the working poor. And he's hoping the uncertainty he creates drives Democrats to get on board the Obamacare repeal-and-replacement bill he backs, called American Health Care Act. But there are others:Trump could have the Internal Revenue Service stop enforcing the law's individual mandate, which requires a fine for anyone who goes without health insurance.


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