Rather than the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s system of rationing care, and paying doctors on the basis of outcomes, America needs to inject more choice into Medicare. The Office of the Actuary at the Center for Medicare& Medicaid Services has estimated that without the projected Medicare spending cuts under the Affordable Care Act, which past…
Newswires
Insurance industry consultant Robert Laszewski said a majority of Republican-led states, facing a Friday deadline to submit plans for running the state-based exchanges key to the Affordable Care Act, have opted to cede much or all control of the program to the federal government, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Just 18 states and the District of…
Austin Social Security disability benefits attorney Don R. Cotton today expressed support for an expansion of the Social Security Administration’ s Compassionate Allowances program for SSD benefits, saying it removes obstacles from the benefits application process for more disabled people with the greatest immediate needs. “Eliminating much of the…
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator Jay Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, today expressed his strong concerns about efforts to coordinate care for beneficiaries eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, during a Senate Finance Committee hearing entitled “Improving Care for Dually-Eligible Beneficiaries: A Progress Update.”
Zane Benefits, the leader in Defined Contribution and Health Reimbursement Arrangement solutions for business health benefits, today published a quick guide to premiums that are reimbursable under a Section 125 Premium Only Plan. A Section 125 Premium-Only-Plan is a cafeteria plan that allows employees to pay their health insurance premiums with…
Concordis Group, Inc., a growing financial holding company, announced today that CEO Thomas C. Blake has signed a letter of intent regarding the purchase of Builders Insurance Company. Upon completion of the acquisition, Concordis Group intends to continue to expand to lines of coverage in the trucking and healthcare industries. Mr. Blake stated, “This…
Dec. 14– The union for Reading police has sued the city in Berks County Court, seeking to stop the city from throwing retired cops off city health insurance until a separate grievance on the issue can be heard. The Fraternal Order of Police claims the city is ignoring a 1988 agreement that allows many of those retired officers to stay on city insurance.
Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release:. David M. Ketchmark, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that six Kansas City, Mo., employees and a Jackson County, Mo., employee have been indicted by a federal grand jury for a scheme in which hundreds of public employees defrauded their…
The University of Illinois at Chicago issued the following news release:. But community pharmacists and insurance benefit managers, working together, can help patients comply with vital pharmaceutical therapies, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy. Glen Stettin, senior vice president of clinical research at…
Mr. Potier has more than 15 years of diversified information technology experience including enterprise security operations, information assurance and compliance, risk management, program management, security governance, IT managed services, and executive leadership. Before that, Mr. Potier served as Chief Information Security Officer for a global…
Dec. 14– The Sayre Borough Council voted Thursday to approve a three-year contract between the borough and the Sayre Borough Police Department. The bargaining team will be able to negotiate the costs of health insurance with officers in future negotiations, said councilman Bob Flick. ” JoAnn Sabatura was the only council member to vote no on the contract, citing…
The fourth annual Allianz Travel Insurance Vacation Confidence Index revealed that as the countdown to the holiday travel season begins, travel reviews are playing an even bigger role in travelers’ vacation planning. According to a release, 76 percent of consumers traveling this holiday season say they find other travelers’ reviews trustworthy.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator Jay Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, today expressed his strong concerns about efforts to coordinate care for beneficiaries eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, during a Senate Finance Committee hearing entitled “Improving Care for Dually-Eligible Beneficiaries: A Progress Update.”
Dec. 13– Highmark Inc. will spend $100 million to build an elaborate outpatient medical facility on Perry Highway in Pine, the health insurance company said Thursday during a ground-breaking ceremony. The facility, which Highmark is calling the Wexford Medical Mall, is the first of two the state’s largest health insurer will construct as it builds a new health…
Noted New York brain injury attorney Michael V. Kaplen, in responding to a recent story in the New York Times, Concussion Liability Costs May Rise, and Not Just for NFL, charged the League and its insurers with an insidious conspiracy to deny injured players access to justice. The master complaint in the player’s lawsuit against the league is, In Re National…
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 13– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New York. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 13– American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent developed by eight co-inventors for a “system and method for transferring a line of credit balance to a cash account.” The co-inventors are Thomas C. Baker, Grover Beach, Calif.,…
Targeted News Service Targeted News Service. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 13– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Connecticut. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 13– Pitney Bowes, Stamford, Conn., has been assigned a patent developed by Frederick W. Ryan Jr., Oxford, Conn., for a “fraud detection mechanism adapted for inconsistent data collection.”
Targeted News Service Targeted News Service. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 13– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 13– AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent developed by Mazin G. Rahim, Warren, N.J., and Juergen Schroeter, New Providence, N.J., for “system and method of dynamically modifying a spoken…
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 13– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Florida. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 13– Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent developed by four co-inventors for a “method and apparatus for enhancing the accuracy and speed of a ray launching simulation tool.” The co-inventors are Salvador Sibecas, Lake Worth, Fla.,…
