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CMS Changes Low-Income Rate Rules
By Staff WriterThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be making it easier for some Medicare drug plan vendors to offer discounts for poor beneficiaries.Plans may ...
January 08, 2008
Researchers Estimates Effects Of Uninsurance On Death RatesLack of health coverage may have led to 22,000 unnecessary deaths in the United States in 2006.Researchers at the Urban Institute, Washington, came up with ...
January 08, 2008
Aetna Signs DistributorA large health insurer has agreed to sell health insurance for individuals under age 65 through Empyrean Benefit Solutions Inc.Empyrean, Houston, will sell coverage from ...
January 08, 2008
Principal: Costs Affect More Worker Coverage ChoicesU.S. employees may be paying more attention to the cost of health insurance and less to flexibility.The percentage of U.S. workers at small and midsize ...
January 08, 2008
Actuaries See Health Cost Increases ModeratingExperts affiliated with the Society of Actuaries are predicting that health care rate increases will drop for the remainder of this century.Health care costs per ...
January 08, 2008
Actuaries See Health Cost Increases ModeratingExperts affiliated with the Society of Actuaries are predicting that health care rate increases will drop for the remainder of this century.Health care costs per ...
January 07, 2008
Tufts Expands Emdeon RelationshipA managed care company is buying more support services from a longtime vendor.Tufts Health Plan, Watertown, Mass., will be buying payment management services from Emdeon ...
January 06, 2008
LTC Insurance Begins Slow Climb Back From DoldrumsAuthorities in the long term care insurance industry think they finally see a lasting turnaround from the stagnation that has affected the industry for the past several years.