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PPACA: Feds Hope to Squeeze Medicare Advantage
By Allison BellFederal officials say about $205 billion of the $418 billion in Medicare savings they hope to achieve over the next decade will come from spending on the Medicare Advantage program.
August 02, 2010
Milliman: Cost Shifting to Drive Group Health HigherExpansion of Medicare and Medicaid may increase premiums for commercial group health plans in 2011, according to Milliman.
August 02, 2010
PPACA: Federal Judge Lets Cuccinelli vs. Sebelius ProceedVirginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli has won a chance to get a hearing on arguments that new federal health coverage ownership rules are unconstitutional.
August 02, 2010
PPACA: Rockefeller Lobbies for Tight MLR RulesSen. Jay Rockefeller today failed to get federal and state insurance regulators to say how they will interpret the new health insurance administrative cost limits.
August 02, 2010
Call Me a Pollyanna But Im No OstrichOver the past few months, I have seen an unprecedented number of doomsday rhetoric in the trade and mainstream media.SECs 151A spells an end to ...
August 02, 2010
Call Me a Pollyanna But Im No OstrichOver the past few months, I have seen an unprecedented number of doomsday rhetoric in the trade and mainstream media.SEC’s 151A spells an end to ...
August 01, 2010
Six more steps to getting LTCI referrals (part 2)How can I improve my process for getting referrals from clients, since these are the easiest and best leads to develop?
August 01, 2010
Milliman: Cost Shifting to Drive Group Health HigherExpansion of Medicare and Medicaid may increase premiums for commercial group health plans in 2011, according to Milliman.