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TRENTON, N.J., August 23 – Twenty hospitals in New Jersey have sued Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey alleging breach of contract and seeking $50 million compensation.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 22 – Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company (RSL), a group life and group disability carrier, has introduced RSL LeaveManager, which the company describes as a web-based software application designed to administer leave and absence programs in accordance with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for cases of 50 to 2,000 lives.
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NEW YORK, N.Y., August 17 – New York Insurance Department Superintendent Howard Mills has ordered the distribution of $71 million in surplus market stabilization pool funds to New Yorkers in the individual direct-pay health maintenance organization (HMO) market.
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ALBANY, N.Y., August 15 – GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a leading pharmaceutical company, has settled a suit alleging illegal pricing schemes for cancer patients and yielding millions for government health plans and consumers.
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NEW YORK, N.Y., July 27 – Only 55 percent of employers who offer Health Reimbursement Account(HRA) plans will maintain them next year, and 45 percent of those with HRAs will either add a Health Savings Account (HSA) option, or replace their HRAs with HSAs, according to a Buck Consultants national survey of U.S. employers on Consumer Driven Health Care.
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HANYS Benefit Services (HBS), an affiliate of the Healthcare Association of New York State, and InsMed Insurance Agency, Inc. have announced that they will jointly provide disability insurance protection and program support for medical professionals, as well as physicians practicing in New York State.
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Though most Americans agree on the importance of obtaining adequate life insurance, less than half of U.S. adults have an individual life insurance policy to secure their families futures, according to statements made by The American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) and the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA).
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NEW YORK, N.Y., May 26 – Insurance Department Superintendent Howard Mills has announced the latest fines, totaling $266,600, against 21 health insurers and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) for violations of New Yorks Prompt Pay Law. The violations and subsequent fines stemmed from complaint files that were closed by the Insurance Department between October 1, 2005 and March 31.
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TRENTON, N.J., May 25 – Two veteran state Republican Senators warned Democrats not to raid the surplus of Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield, as proposed recently by three Democrat State Senators.
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Health coverage for all is certainly a goal to which few, if any, Americans would object, even if its realization has run afoul of disagreements over means and methods. By studiously avoiding the word universal (that language killed an earlier bill), and even more deliberately rejecting a single-payer system " two of the reddest flags in the health care debate " the Massachusetts bill may do for the U.S. what the Quebec case is doing in Canada: demonstrate that there is another, workable way of providing coverage without sacrificing dearly-held national principles. But where the prospect of further privatization in Canada is the stick, the Massachusetts bill is a carrot. As Paul G. Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, noted, Its definitely going to be inspiring to other states about how there was this compromise. He added, For a conservative Republican, this is individual responsibility. For a Democrat, this is government helping those that need help.
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Whether youre selling life-health or property-casualty products, or both, youre missing a great opportunity if you arent also selling long-term care insurance (LTCI). Theres a huge void waiting to be filled and countless numbers of people are in need of your services.
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NEWARK, N.J. and COLUMBIA, Md., May 18 – Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is offering its self-insured employer accounts the Direct-to-Member (DTM) suite of personalized communications from Resolution Health, Inc. (RHI).Horizon said that the RHI suite, which includes a Personal Care Note (PCN) issued via mail or an e-PCN accessible through Horizons My Health Manager application, leads to increased compliance with evidence-based care and cost savings for members.
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ALBANY, N.Y., May 17 –A state-wide Long Term Care Insurance Education and Awareness campaign, providing a wide array of options aimed at helping families strengthen their financial security, has been launched in New York State.
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NEW YORK, N.Y., May 17 – More than half of New York Citys Haitian, Russian, and Latino first-generation immigrants interviewed for a new report by The New York Academy of Medicine say that language barriers lead to reduced quality care for their children, prevent them from fully using health care services, and leave them dissatisfied with their medical care.
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TRENTON, N.J., May 12 – Three State Senators have accused Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of hoarding up to $500 million more in its surplus than needed and want any excess to be sued to fund state health programs.
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As close as Canada and the United States are geographically, the health care systems of the two could not be farther apart. According to a Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) report, Canada is the only country that forbids by law any private administration of health care services that are already provided publicly. The U.S., in contrast, is among the few countries of the 31 belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OEDC) that does not have universal accessibility. However, U.S. hospital emergency departments are required to provide medical treatment to all comers, whether or not they are insured.
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TRENTON, N.J., April 25 – The state Insurance Department is proposing to give higher subsidy payments todoctors with high insurance costs when it doles out funds later this year to helpdoctorspay their medicalliability insurance premiums. The proposal is outlined inPRN 20006-101, now open for comments untilJune 2.
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ALBANY, N.Y., April 12 – Health care advocates,labor officials, and heads of nonprofit health plans insuring over six million New Yorkers joined the Senate and Assembly Insurance Committee Chairmen in urging the United States Senate to reject a federal bill that would undermine New Yorks health care consumer protection laws.
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NEW YORK, N.Y., April 10 – With the rise of financial incentives and a multitude of decisions facing consumers regarding healthcare benefits, treatment options and behavior, employees are highly receptive to guidance from health coaches, according to Phillip Micali, founder and CEO of bWell international, inc., a provider of products and services to the health and wellness marketplace.
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ALBANY, N.Y. April 7 – Health insurance coverage for school district retirees has been extended for one year under legislation passed by both houses of the New York State Legislature and sent to the Governor for his approval.
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ALBANY, N.Y., March 31 – Sweeping changes setting up statewide standards, requiring hospitals to aid uninsured patients and curb aggressive collection practices,were reached under an agreement in the new state budget.
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ALBANY, N.Y. March 31 – Domestic insurers will no longer have to file forms relating to life and heath insurance policies sold outside New York State under legislation passed by the New York State Senate.
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Just about the time the acronym HMO became firmly embedded in the national vocabulary " youll find it on page 858 of the 1996 edition of The American Heritage Dictionary " along came another batch of alphabet soup: CDHP, HSA, HRA, FSA, MSA, and a few others. While these are still gibberish to most of us, they are the rapidly advancing future of health care coverage (Of the many definitions and glossaries available, among the clearest and least partisan is that provided by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, part of Deloitte & Touche USA.). They refer to plans, or elements of and variations on plans, aimed at meeting four goals articulated by President Bush in his January 31, 2006 State of the Union address:
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NEW YORK, N.Y., March 27 – A Guardian subsidiary has designed two new living benefit riders that were developed to address the realities of a new generation of retirees.
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