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By Staff WriterA software company is releasing a new package of administrative systems and services aimed at the "value-based health care" market.
September 16, 2009
Bill Gets Mixed ReviewsThe release of a relatively moderate health reform bill by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus could change the tone of the health reform effort over in the House.
September 16, 2009
Witnesses Pan Private OptionBureaucracy can be as much a problem at private health insurers as at public health programs, witnesses argued today at a subcommittee hearing organized by Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
September 16, 2009
Reform Optimism IncreasesMore insurance and benefits groups seem to be warming up today to the idea that Congress will enact a health reform bill that they can live with.
September 16, 2009
Panel Sets AgendaThe Regulatory Framework Task Force at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners will get an update on an individual health policy rescission survey at the NAIC's fall meeting.
September 16, 2009
Avivia Offers Health ProgramsA unit of Kaiser Permanente has started selling a menu of wellness and disease management programs to employers on a stand-alone basis.
September 16, 2009
Max Baucus And AHIPSen. Max Baucus is "one degree of separation away" from America's Health Insurance Plans.
September 16, 2009
Editorial comment: On long term care and the top 10 causes of deathA quick glance at the new cause-of-death figures out from the National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Md., should be a heads-up for long term care insurance practitioners. Here is why.