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Garamendi Attacks Account-Based Plans
By Staff WriterCalifornia Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi is thinking about proposing laws or regulations that might affect use of health savings accounts, health reimbursement arrangements and ...
September 19, 2005
Skinner Moves To PrincipalPrincipal Financial Group Inc. has hired Margaret Skinner to be senior vice president for life and health distribution.[@@]Skinner previously was a senior vice president ...
September 19, 2005
Disease Management Program Targets DepressionCIGNA Behavioral Health is setting up a program that will help plan members cope with depression.[@@]The Bloomfield-, Conn.-based unit of CIGNA Corp., Philadelphia, will ...
September 19, 2005
NAIC Epects Drop In Database FeesThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners is allowing for a 3.6% increase in spending in its proposed 2006 budget.[@@]In the budget draft, NAIC officials ...
September 19, 2005
Aetna To Offer HRAs And HSAs To More Federal WorkersNU Online News Service, Sept. 19, 2005, 5:23 p.m. EDTThe federal government is giving more employees access to 2 account-based plans from Aetna Inc.[@@]The ...
September 19, 2005
Lawmaker%3A Spend Drug Funding On Gulf CoastCongress could come up with some money for rebuilding communities hit by Hurricane Katrina by postponing the rollout of the new Medicare prescription drug ...
September 19, 2005
Feds Etend Health Benefit Deadlines For Katrina VictimsThe U. S. Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service have extended health plan coverage decision deadlines for survivors of Hurricane Katrina.[@@]The Labor ...
September 18, 2005
Hillary LearnsIf nothing else, you have to give Sen. Hillary Clinton credit for having the courage to revisit an issue that has dogged her for well ...