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PPACA: ACO Market Size Matters
By Staff WriterThe new accountable care organizations may work better if they are more tightly knit in bigger communities and more loosely structured in smaller communities.
October 22, 2010
PPACA: ACO Market Size MattersThe new accountable care organizations may work better if they are more tightly knit in bigger communities and more loosely structured in smaller communities.
October 22, 2010
PPACA: CBO Skeptical about Cost SavingsThe Affordable Care Act may have only a "very limited" effect on unnecessary U.S. health care spending in the coming decade, according to Congressional Budget Office analysts.
October 22, 2010
Earnings: StanCorp, UnitedHealthThe life and health insurers that kicked off the third-quarter earnings reporting season this week recorded profits.
October 22, 2010
Earnings: StanCorp, UnitedHealthThe life and health insurers that kicked off the third-quarter earnings reporting season this week recorded profits.
October 22, 2010
Leading with DI: How Disability Income Protection Can Help Your Clients Keep their Golden EggsWhile driving through Texas' hill country in June of 2007, my husband's phone rang -- but the call was for me.
October 22, 2010
Healthcare Costs Rise 7.32% From Aug. 2009The Standard & Poor's Healthcare Economic Composite Index data released Thursday show that the average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by private insurance and Medicare programs has increased by 7.32%.
October 22, 2010
NAIC Votes on Medical Loss Ratios; Insurers UnhappyIn what was seen as a setback for insurance companies, the proposed rules on the medical loss ratio voted by NAIC on Thursday did not include any insurance-company-proposed amendments.