Sept. 29– St. Cloud- area candidates for seats in the Minnesota Legislature debated health care, education and other key topics Thursday at a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters. About 100 people attended the forum at the Whitney Senior Center, which featured all seven candidates for the Senate District 14 and House Districts 14 A and 14 B seats.
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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– Investigators publish new report on Heart Disorders and Diseases- Acute Coronary Syndrome. We explored geographic, socio-economic, health service and disease indicators associated with variation in angiography rates across Australia. ” Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research…
As a Palm Beach County judge was getting ready to bring in scores more of potential jurors to decide a 6- year-old lawsuit, attorneys representing San Matera The Gardens Condominium Association announced they had reached a $22.5 million settlement with insurers for Kolter Homes and those for dozens of subcontractors involved in the ill-fated…
Recent Findings from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Has Provided New Information about Medicare and Medicaid. By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– A new study on Medicare and Medicaid is now available. Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, ” Medicaid, Indian Health…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– National Truck Protection announced the appointment of Jim Porcari to its board of directors. Porcari is Founder and Managing Partner of Insurance Resources International, LLC a strategic consulting firm for the property and casualty industry since 2010. Prior to founding Insurance Resources…
At issue is how the administration has handled a little-known, but important program called “transitional reinsurance.”
DERBY, England, 29 September 2016/ PRNewswire Policy/–. RAIB has today released its report into SPAD incidents at Reading Westbury Line Junction, 28 March 2015, and Ruscombe Junction, 3 November 2015. At 08:22 hrs on 28 March 2015, a freight train running from Acton to Westbury, operated by DB Schenker Rail, passed a signal at danger at Reading Westbury Line Junction, to…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews journalists, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing by Primerica, Inc. was posted on September 20, 2016. The SEC file number is 0001127602-16-062895.. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing is a…
Brett Mangum, owner of and principle dentist at Mangum Dental, a family dentistry practice, recently conducted a seminar on “Ethics in Dentistry” at the Fall Conference of the Arizona Dental Association in Tucson. “As a native Arizonian and a four year Veteran of the U.S. Navy who deployed in Iraq, the importance of ethics is a topic that is vitally important to me,” said…
–CNO Financial Group, Inc. announced today that its subsidiaries, Bankers Conseco Life Insurance Company and Washington National Insurance Company, are terminating reinsurance agreements with Beechwood Re and recapturing approximately $550 million of closed block long-term care liabilities. Based on the information obtained in the audit, CNO, along…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services are due to release the Medicare premium amounts on October 1st, 2016. Approximately 70% of those on Medicare will be protected from a large Part B increase under the law, but “Hold Harmless” doesn’t apply to everyone. In 2015, Congress intervened and…
Molina Healthcare Plans Receive Ratings from NCQA’s Medicaid Health Insurance Plan Ratings 2016-2017
Molina Healthcare, Inc. today announced that its plans received ratings from the widely respected National Committee for Quality Assurance as part of the Medicaid Health Insurance Plan Ratings for 2016-2017. The ratings measure Medicaid health plans based on their combined HEDIS ®, CAHPS ® and NCQA Accreditation standards scores.
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– RLI Corp.- RLI Corp. announced that Calvin G. Butler, Jr. has been appointed to its board of directors, effective October 1, 2016, for a term expiring at RLI’s next shareholders’ meeting in May 2017, at which time he will stand for re-election. “We are pleased to welcome Calvin to our board of directors,” said…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– Researchers detail new data in Medicare and Medicaid. According to news reporting originating from Sydney, Australia, by VerticalNews correspondents, research stated, “To quantify the time that general practitioners spend on patient care that is not claimable from Medicare and the monetary…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– Asset Life Settlements, LLC, a leading life settlement brokerage and secondary market advisory firm, announced that year-to-date transactions of life insurance policies brokered by the company have more than doubled over the same period last year. “Based on the substantial increase in the volume…
“The HICA Tax was hurriedly put into place in 2011 because the Use Tax on Medicaid Managed Care Organizations was subject to federal scrutiny and it was thought it would be deemed an impermissible mechanism to draw down federal dollars to help fund Michigan’s traditional Medicaid program,” said Wendy Block, Director of Health Policy& Human Resources for the…
Sept. 29– TUPELO– Hancock Fabrics has filed a motion with the U.S. Bankruptcy of Delaware, asking it to approve an agreement in which the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation takes over its under-funded pension plan. When it filed for Chapter 11 on Feb. 2, Hancock listed debt of $182 million and assets of $151.4 million. The PBGC guarantees private defined-benefit…
Katie Pettibone, Western Region Vice President for the American Insurance Association, released the following statement today in response to California Governor Jerry Brown signing SB 482, the CURES Database Bill, into law:. “California has taken an important step in preventing prescription drug and opioid abuse by passing SB 482 into law.
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest– CHOICE Administrators announced the addition of two popular Western Health Advantage health plans to its coverage options for Northern California groups enrolling in CaliforniaChoice. “Western Health Advantage has been a health plan partner with us in Northern California since 2003,”…
