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By Gifford Boyce-smithWhen President Bush issued an executive order in August calling for health care providers to do a better job of reporting on cost and quality, ...
April 13, 2007
Nationwide To Help MetLife With Absence ManagementOne insurer is turning to a division of another insurer to expand absence management services for group disability customers.Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a unit of ...
April 13, 2007
Committee Passes Medicare Drug Negotiation BillMembers of the Senate Finance Committee voted 13-8 Thursday to approve S. 3, a bill that would let the federal government negotiate Medicare prescription drug ...
April 13, 2007
Committee Passes Medicare Drug Negotiation BillMembers of the Senate Finance Committee voted 13-8 Thursday to approve S. 3, a bill that would let the federal government negotiate Medicare prescription drug ...
April 13, 2007
Bay State Implements Health Plan Nondiscrimination RulesMassachusetts agencies are moving ahead with efforts to implement the state's health coverage access expansion program.The Massachusetts Division of Insurance has issued a bulletin that ...
April 13, 2007
Aflac Japan Finds Low Level Of Claim ProblemsA U.S. company says it has done a reasonably good job of handling claims in Japan over the past 5 years.Japan's Financial Services Agency has ...
April 13, 2007
Aflac Japan Finds Low Level Of Claim ProblemsA U.S. company says it has done a reasonably good job of handling claims in Japan over the past 5 years.Japan's Financial Services Agency has ...
April 13, 2007
Insurer Cuts Copayments For CFC-Free InhalersThe managed care division of UnitedHealth Group Inc. is trying to reduce out-of-pocket expenses for people with asthma who shift to medication delivery systems that ...