Coinsurance. Coinsurance is an additional cost that some health care plans require policy holders to pay after the deductible is met. When you pay coinsurance, you split a certain cost with the insurance company at a ratio determined by the terms of your insurance plan. Coinsurance is often 10, 30 or 20 percent.
State lawmakers grappling with how to fund former governor Robert F. McDonnellâs landmark 2013 transportation bill included a fail-safe measure that would increase the stateâs gas tax if Congress failed to deliver on online sales revenue by the start of 2015.
Next summer, the tax will increase an additional 4.9 cents a gallon, putting the total state tax at 49.4 cents â which based on current rates, would make it the second-highest gas tax in the nation behind Pennsylvania, according to the American Petroleum Institute.