Under the terms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health plans are now required to provide consumers with a Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) for group health plans. Short (maximum four double-sided pages) and easy to understand, the SBC will be a valuable supplement to existing plan communications. A recent post on the Kaiser [...]
CMS recently announced a new Recovery Audit Prepayment Review demonstration project that’s intended to help stop unnecessary Medicare payments from occurring. The goal of the project is to shift Medicare away from “pay and chase” recovery methods. Click here to read more about the project on Medicaid-RAC.com or paste this link in your web browser: http://www.medicaid-rac.com/?p=1275
On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 1 pm Eastern, HMS will present a free, one-hour webinar, “Innovative Solutions in Cost Containment for State & Municipal Employee Health Plans.” The webinar will address the budgetary pressures state employee health plans are currently facing, and outline creative cost containment solutions that health plans can use to save [...]
The Kaiser Family Foundation has compiled a list of states that have received health insurance Exchange grants, along with the amounts each grant was worth. To view the list, and to access other information regarding healthcare reform implementation click here or copy this link into your web browser: http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparetable.jsp?ind=954&cat=17
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