01 Dec HHS Approves Medical Loss Ratio Rule

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The Department of Health and Human Services issued the first in what will be a series of guidance and rules...

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01 Dec Grandfathered Health Plans Can Change Insurers

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Employers are allowed to change insurers without their health care plans automatically losing grandfathered status...

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01 Dec Employers Seek New Path to Savings with Dependant Eligibility Audits

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More employers are scrutinizing employees' health-insurance dependents...

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01 Dec Autism Enters Into Benefits Equation

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diagnosed with autism at age 4, Kulstad knew he faced years of expensive medical treatment...

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01 Dec IRS Offers Tax Break on 401(k) Rollovers

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certain pension distributions will not be imposed on 401(k) account balances...

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01 Dec Employers Hope To Alter Health Care Reform

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Following Republican gains in the U.S. midterm elections,...

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08 Nov US watching Mass. fight on health costs

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By Robert WeismanGlobe Staff / November 5, 2010 While the White House seems destined to spend the next two years fending off attacks on President Obama’s health care law, the administration of Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts will push forward with the next stage of health care overhaul: trying...

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08 Nov Experts: Don’t Expect Reform Changes Yet

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Source: PR Newswire [via insurancenewsnet.com] 04-Nov-2010 HR and benefits managers--and perhaps a lot of CEOs and CFOs -- who in recent weeks had begun thinking seriously about the impact of federal health care reform on their profitability, workforce structure and health plan viability, may have awoken Nov. 3...

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08 Nov Timeline for Health Insurance Reform

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By Callan Carter (San Francisco) The effect of the recent healthcare legislation is beginning to be felt. Several changes (including pool coverage for high-risk people, extension of tax-dependent status of children to age 26, and a 10% excise tax on tanning salon services) have already...

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08 Nov Medicare Notice Deadline is Nov. 15

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Source: Warner Norcross & Judd LLP [via BenefitsLink] 01-Nov-2010 Norbert F. Kugele Just a reminder that the deadline is Nov. 15, 2010 to distribute the annual Notice of Creditable Coverage required under Medicare Part D. The notice informs participants whether the prescription drug coverage offered under your health...

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