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IHC Combines Units
By Staff WriterIndependence Holding Company is putting several benefits administration and marketing businesses in a single company, IHC Health Solutions Inc.
December 21, 2009
CMS: 'Cadillac' Plan Tax Could Bend Spending CurveImposing a 40% excise tax on relatively high-cost, "Cadillac" health plans might be fairly effective at holding down health care spending, a government forecaster says.
December 21, 2009
Dewald To Lead LIFEJack Dewald will take over as chairman of the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education board Jan. 1, 2010.
December 21, 2009
Smarr: Senate Should Fix Self-Gutting Malpractice ProvisionA proposed addition to H.R. 3590, the Senate health bill, would encourage states to set up new systems for handling medical malpractice claims - but it also would let claimants opt out of using the new systems.
December 21, 2009
ACLI: Study Shows CLASS Act Won't WorkThe American Council of Life Insurers is pointing to a new study by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as confirming its view that a long term care entitlement program contained in the latest Senate health care reform package won't work.
December 21, 2009
Dewald To Lead LIFEJack Dewald will take over as chairman of the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education board Jan. 1, 2010.
December 21, 2009
The Evolution of Automated Underwriting Software Systems1st Generation: These are black box systems which were probably enforced/encouraged on an insurer's underwriting team to ensure consistency as well as a bare minimum standard of underwriting decision making.
December 21, 2009
CBO Analyzes Estate Tax AlternativesRepealing the federal estate tax would increase the federal budget deficit by about $502 billion over the 10-year period starting in 2010, a Congressional Budget Office analyst predicts.