Sun Life Financial’s Employee Benefits Group has rolled out two group voluntary accident insurance plans, which enable employers to select the benefit schedules that meet the demographic and budgetary needs of their employees. The ...
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Mutual of Omaha, a US-based insurance company, has unveiled a new Critical Illness insurance product that allows employers to extend their benefits coverage, while providing employees with added protection for critical illness. Providing ...
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The California State Assembly has passed a bill that restricts generic versions of medicines called biosimilars, upon their launch in the US. Biosimilars are medicines whose active drug substance is derived from living cells. They have ...
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Truven Health Analytics has upgraded its Health Unify population health management solution with healthcare data warehousing, analytic methodologies and decision-support capabilities to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs for clinical ...
Health insurer Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) has deployed hCentive’s exchange integration and private exchange solutions to offer single sales portal. The insurer deployed cloud-based WebInsure Exchange Manager solution to manage its ...
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Global professional services company has entered a web broker entity agreement with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the US, which will allow employers to connect eligible populations to the federally managed exchange. ...
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Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP), a not-for-profit public health plan in southern California, has selected Pharmacy Quality Solutions’ (PQS’) EQuIPP platform, as its neutral intermediary for Pay-for-Performance (P4P) program for ...
The US government has issued final rules on providing women with coverage for contraceptive services without sharing cost. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, "Today's announcement reinforces our commitment to ...
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Voxiva, Inc.(SM) announced today that text4baby(SM), a service which provides pregnant women and new moms with critical health information, has introduced a wide range of new interactive features and evidence-based educational content. ...
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The Commonwealth of Virginia has selected Aetna for provision of a health benefits plan option to its more than 200,000 eligible employees, retirees and family members, effective from 01 July. Dubbed COVA HealthAware, the ...
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CONEXIS has rolled out exchange connector and premium aggregation services to assist health plans to deal with implementing their premium-billing and collection services to meet the requirements introduced in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ...
Q. My Medigap policy was cheap when I bought it but it's expensive now that I'm 76. I tried to switch to a cheaper plan but was turned down because of some health conditions. Will health care reform prevent Medigap plans from doing this? ...
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Specialty pharmaceutical company Sagent Pharmaceuticals has opted for Elsevier's Gold Standard's drug information technologies, ProspectoRx and Clinical Pharmacology to access current and accurate drug data and pricing. ProspectorRx ...
DST Health Solutions has obtained Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) software certification from National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for its CareAnalyzer HEDIS solution. Calculating the comprehensive set ...
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US’s employee benefits-only agency Digital Insurance has collaborated with CUNA Mutual Group, to prepare customers to address changes in health care reform and to modify their employee benefits packages accordingly. As part of the ...
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