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February 2010 Edition |
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Health Care Costs Increase at Double Digit Rates Costs for the most popular types of health care coverage are projected to increase at double-digit rates for 2010, according to a national survey of insurers and administrators by Buck Consultants, an ACS company. |
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VBBD Goes Mainstream Three major health insurers comprise the VBBD vanguard for the fully insured market. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Health Alliance in Illinois and Blue Shield of California are rolling out value-based benefit design packages. |
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Doctors need to reform, panel says Effective change in the health care system must begin with adjustments in physician behavior rather than legislation, despite the recent health care reform debate that has raged in Washington, D.C., according to a panel of health care experts from local medical facilities and non-profit physician groups. |
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Workers comp claim frequency declines: NCCI Workers compensation claim frequency declined 3.4% nationwide for the 2008 accident year, according to an annual NCCI Holdings Inc. report. |
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Kraft can't cut workers comp benefit: Court Kraft Foods Inc. failed to provide sufficient evidence of available alternative employment when it attempted to reduce a workers compensation claimant’s partial disability benefits, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Friday. |
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