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Cuomo Raises $20 Million For Physician Rate Database
By Allison BellCIGNA Corp. and WellPoint Inc. have agreed to contribute $10 million each to helping to start a service that will replace the Ingenix physician fee service.
February 18, 2009
ARRA, CHIPRA Create Employer Notice HeadachesEmployers will have to rush to comply with notice provisions and other provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act.
February 18, 2009
IFEBP: Employers Eye Benefits EligibilityLarge companies are using audits to verify whether employees' dependents really have a right to health coverage.
February 18, 2009
Obama Signs H.R. 1President Obama has signed H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a bill that includes health benefits subsidies for laid-off workers, ...
February 17, 2009
Humana Opens Service OfficeA health insurer has cut the ribbon on a 37,000-square-foot care coordination center.
February 17, 2009
Principal Network Moves Into DallasA Midwestern health insurer is expanding a proprietary health care provider network program into a new market.
February 17, 2009
AHIP: Gen X Not Prepared For LTCMany members of Generation X say they feel unprepared for the cost of long term care and think they are not taking the steps necessary to prepare for their future, according to America's Health Insurance Plans.
February 17, 2009
CIGNA Introduces Expat ProductCIGNA International Expatriate Benefits, Claymont, Del., a unit of CIGNA Corp., Philadelphia, has introduced the Global Health Advantage: Short-Term Abroad program.