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CMS Tells Health Insurer To Suspend Medicare Drug Plan Sales
By Allison BellThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says a large health insurer will have to sit on the Medicare drug plan market sidelines until it resolves CMS compliance concerns.
April 09, 2010
Delaware Eyes Medical Test DenialsOfficials in a Mid-Atlantic state say efforts to eliminate unnecessary medical tests may be going too far.
April 09, 2010
Badger State Forms HCR AgencyWisconsin Gov. James Doyle, D, has issued an executive order creating an Office of Health Care Reform.
April 08, 2010
Minnesota Blue Flips Switch On Small Group SystemBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has started using InsureConnect sales automation technology in the small group market.
April 08, 2010
Conning: Merger Activity Lowest Since 2002U.S. insurance merger and acquisition activities in 2009 were the lowest since 2002. But a pickup is underway, fueled by pent-up demand, according to a new report.
April 08, 2010
MetLife analyzes the generationsA MetLife Mature Market Institute study reveals a picture of the generations born since the early years of the twentieth century.
April 08, 2010
Conning: Merger Activity Lowest Since 2002U.S. insurance merger and acquisition activities in 2009 were the lowest since 2002. But a pickup is underway, fueled by pent-up demand, according to a new report.
April 08, 2010
Closing the Doughnut Hole: What the Reform Bill's Part D Provisions Mean to YouThe health care reform law, which incorporates adjustments made by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, makes several important changes to the Medicare Part D drug benefit.