A program designed to help low-income families afford their health insurance premiums may help narrow the “coverage gap” in Utah. Alan Pruhs, executive director of the Association for Utah Community Health, said the association started the program after noticing that many patients were struggling to afford federal marketplace plans even with the subsidies offered to low-income families. The Association for Utah Community Health, which oversees 52 clinics across the state, par

Humana is pulling out of the individual insurance marketplace in Utah, according to the Utah Department of Insurance. With the closure of Arches Health Plan last year, that leaves Utah with three carriers on the exchange for 2017: Molina, SelectHealth and University of Utah Health Plans. According to the department, Humana currently covers about 9,000 of the 164,400 Utahns on the federal marketplace. Its exit will leave residents in Davis and Salt Lake counties with three car