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If you have questions or complaints about a health plan or retirement plan, the U.S. Department of Labor has launched a new streamlined consumer website designed provides easy access to useful information while also allowing users to submit questions and complaints about health and retirement plans electronically. “Helping retirement and health plan participants find answers […]
Continue reading …Key elements of the U.S. Health Care Reform will go before the nation’s highest court next spring, and any decision could become an election year bombshell. The United States Supreme Court announced 14 Nov. 2011, that it will hear oral arguments on a total of four specific questions raised in federal circuit court decisions that […]
Continue reading …By Marian Wang, ProPublica An agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that maintains a discipline and medical-malpractice database reopened it for public access 9 Nov. 2011, two months after the agency had first taken the database offline. The National Practitioner Data Bank contains information used by hospitals, insurers, and licensing boards […]
Continue reading …The small business health care tax credit helps small businesses and small tax-exempt organizations afford the cost of covering their employees. Eligibility Rules Providing health care coverage. A qualifying employer must cover at least 50% of the cost of health care coverage for some of its workers based on the single rate. Firm size. A […]
Continue reading …Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health care insurance coverage increased 9% from 2010 to $15,073 this year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust 2011 Employer Health Benefits Survey released Tuesday, 27 Sept. 2011. On average, workers pay $4,129 and employers pay $10,944 toward those annual premiums. Premiums increased significantly faster than […]
Continue reading …First a little bit of good news on health insurance in the United States. There are fewer uninsured people thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act, which allows children as old as 26 to remain on their parents’ health care insurance plans appears have an immediate effect on the number of Americans […]
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