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Hospitals: Raise Medicare eligibility age
By Staff WriterFearing that the deficit reduction super committee may decide to cut their payments in its effort to reduce the Medicare budget, hospitals are lobbying for an increase in the eligibility age for Medicare.
October 04, 2011
Health Care Law Looms Over New Supreme Court Term (Bloomberg Businessweek)Not by choice, but by necessity, members of the Supreme Court may play a critical role in next year's Presidential election. The Obama administration requested last week that the 12 members of the Court, who serve without seeking election, rule on the constitutionality the President's much-contested health care reform law....
October 04, 2011
CMS: Running a Low-Rated Medicare Plan? You’re Fired!Officials have tried carrots; now they'd like a stick. They put in a request about 100 pages into a collection of regulations that implement MIPPA as well as PPACA.
October 04, 2011
CMS: Running a Low-Rated Medicare Plan? You’re Fired!Officials have tried carrots; now they'd like a stick. They put in a request about 100 pages into a collection of regulations that implement MIPPA as well as PPACA.
October 04, 2011
California Can Ice Agents More Quickly Under New LawNo more wiggle room for agents selling variable annuities if FINRA or SEC has yanked their registration
October 04, 2011
IAIS Updates Core Principles with NAIC at TableThe first such update since 2003 promises to reflect a new global standard to evaluate supervising authorities
October 04, 2011
IAIS Updates Core Principles with NAIC at TableThe first such update since 2003 promises to reflect a new global standard to evaluate supervising authorities
October 04, 2011
A.D. 2014: Experts Say, “Plan for the Worst”Once the rulemakers get going, watch out. Those pages of fine print have a way of lasting.