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- Trends In the Life Settlement Market
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dental survey 09
19. If covered, explain the process that allows the general dentist to refer to the specialist.
20. Are any of your specialists board eligible/certified?
21. How do you fund your specialty care?
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hsa survey 09
1. What are the primary services you offer as part of your HSA product?
2. Do you offer an HSA-qualifying high deductible health insurance plan?
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ppos survey 09
1. Is an approval procedure required for getting a specialist referral or a diagnostic test or treatment in-network or out-of-network?
2. Are there any restrictions on getting second opinions from an in-network provider or an out-of-network provider?
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Hmo survey
1. Do you guarantee a time limit on getting referral/treatment routine, urgent, emergency? If not, how many days does it take?
2. Do you have any conditions/diagnoses/symptoms that are referred automatically?
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term survey 09
1. What percentage of the cases you underwrote last year were issued at your top two preferred non-smoker classes?
2. What percentage of the cases you underwrote last year were issued at your top two standard nonsmoker classes?
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voluntary_benefit survey
Assembling Our First Assembling Our First Voluntary Benefits Survey
Finding the Right Benefits Package for Your Clients
1.Please list the voluntary/employee-paid benefits that you offer along with the minimum group size for each offering:
2. Do you have any benefit offerings for employees that work fewer than 40 hours a week?
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February 2010

American's Health Trends
Good Medicine or Bitter Pill?

• CA's Changing Healthcare Market
• The Value of CE in Healthcare Market
• Selling Self-Funding Plans
• Mini-Meds
• Healthcare Reform

Also Inside: -
• Fixed Annuities
• Dental Plans
• HSA Survey PT II
• Disability
• Life Settlements

editor column
Massachusetts
Offers Both Parties
a Window of Opportunity for Health Care Reform

by Alan Katz
Not that anyone asked, but here’s some free advice to both Democrats and Republicans in Washington: don’t over think what’s happened in Massachusetts. There are as many interpretations of the meaning, message and impact of state Senator Scott Brown’s victory Tuesday night, as there are television pundits. And just like paranoids noodling with a conspiracy theory, the facts can be manipulated to prove anything. . more
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