HEALTHCARE • Policymakers Overlook a Major Cost Driver • DOL Delays Exchange Coverage Notice • HHS Allows Exclusions to Contraceptive Mandate • States Fall Behind in Enacting Market Reforms • Medicare’s Bundled Payment Initiative • […]
The Department of Labor announced Monday that it had reached a settlement agreement with ING Life Insurance and Annuity Co. (ILIAC) that provides for a $5.2 million payment to certain retirement plan clients adversely affected […]
Cigna Corp. (CI) struck a deal with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRKA, BRKB) that will transfer up to $4 billion in obligations pegged to once-troublesome annuity operations Cigna began winding down more than a […]
SynerMed, Inc., announced that it is partnering with the California Long-Term Care Education Center (CLTCEC) to transform IHSS education and create a care coordination model for consumers with chronic conditions. CLTCEC was awarded an $11.8 million […]
The latest products from insurers are less expensive. But regulators—and consumers—remain wary. With millions of baby boomers headed to retirement without old-fashioned pension plans as safety nets, here is a product that would seem to have […]
The November election ensured that the most ambitious health care reform since the creation of Medicare in 1965 will take full effect come January 2014. California, like other states, is gearing up to ensure that affordable insurance is […]
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