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PPACA: Panel Ponders Initial MLR Calculations
By Katharine RoseInsurers may feel a bump when they start implementing the new minimum medical loss ratio rules, a regulator says.
August 03, 2010
Assurant Health introduces supplemental coverage productsAssurant Health, Milwaukee, now offers Assurant Supplemental Coverage products, which provide flexible Accident and Critical Illness Coverage options.
August 03, 2010
PPACA: Panel Ponders Initial MLR CalculationsInsurers may feel a bump when they start implementing the new minimum medical loss ratio rules, a regulator says.
August 03, 2010
A Quick and Easy Guide to the PPACA's Key Changes to MedicareWhen the health care reform legislation was passed, there were several provisions included which affected Medicare laws.
August 02, 2010
PPACA: Feds Hope to Squeeze Medicare AdvantageFederal officials say about $205 billion of the $418 billion in Medicare savings they hope to achieve over the next decade will come from spending on the Medicare Advantage program.
August 02, 2010
PPACA: Feds Hope to Squeeze Medicare AdvantageFederal officials say about $205 billion of the $418 billion in Medicare savings they hope to achieve over the next decade will come from spending on the Medicare Advantage program.
August 02, 2010
PPACA: Rockefeller Lobbies for Tight MLR RulesSen. Jay Rockefeller today failed to get federal and state insurance regulators to say how they will interpret the new health insurance administrative cost limits.
August 02, 2010
Milliman: Cost Shifting to Drive Group Health HigherExpansion of Medicare and Medicaid may increase premiums for commercial group health plans in 2011, according to Milliman.