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CMS Adding Producer Field to PCIP Form
By Allison BellManagers of the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan program are revising the PCIP application to include information about the agents or brokers who have helped consumers sign up for coverage.
September 12, 2011
HHS Wants to Free the Lab DataU.S. patients may soon get direct access to medical test results.
September 12, 2011
NAIFA Sees 2 Paths for MLR BattleThe National Association of Insurance and Finance Advisors is hoping the courts will kill the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but it is keeping up pressure on the medical loss ratio front, just in case.
September 12, 2011
Group Health Enrollment Continues to DropNew Census Bureau health insurance figures show that the number of U.S. residents in employer-sponsored plans fell 0.9% between 2009 and 2010, to about 169 million.
September 12, 2011
PPACA: Regulators Fine-Tune Risk Management LetterA first-come, first-serve approach may be fine for selling ice cream, but it's not a good fit for health insurance reinsurance programs.
September 11, 2011
Super Committee: Medicare War Flares UpThe American Academy of Actuaries and the Medicare Rights Center are clashing over how the new Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction should handle Medicare.
September 11, 2011
HHS Wants to Free the Lab DataU.S. patients may soon get direct access to medical test results.
September 11, 2011
PPACA: Consumers Expect More Access, Lower Costs - and PaperworkU.S. residents think the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will do much more to help the uninsured than to encourage people to take better care of themselves.