Thursday, April 19, 2018

N.J. regulators back disclosure of health insurers' executive pay

Over protests from health insurers, the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance has decided that executive compensation at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield and Independence Health Group, which operates through AmeriHealth New Jersey, is public information and must be disclosed.

Insurers’ “assertions of proprietary interests” regarding executive pay “are at times tenuous and ultimately outweighed by the public’s interest in such information,” the insurance department said in a bulletin last month, notifying insurers that it would return to its long-standing position that executive pay is public.

The Inquirer Daily News, April 4 2018
by Harold Brubaker & Andrew Seidman - Staff Writers

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