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Managed Care October 2001 Michael J. Friedman	Prescription Contraceptives: Benefit Whose Time Has Come? Health plans and employers are paying increasing attention to recent administrative and judicial developments relative to contraception coverage. Whether self-funded or insured, plans that offer prescription drug benefits may no longer be able to exclude prescription contraceptives...
Managed Care March 2001	Privacy Up, Liability Down In State Houses This Year Privacy proposals will be one of the most prevalent -- though not the most hotly debated -- issues related to health coverage in state houses this year, according to a survey by the Health Insurance Association of America...
Managed Care October 2005	Rx Trend Moderates While PPO Costs Increase Trends for prescription drug coverage will slow down in 2006 to levels that are closer to those of medical coverage, according to a survey.
Managed Care May 2000	Prescription Drug Benefit Gaining In Election Year Considered a dead issue just weeks ago, a prescription drug benefit in Medicare is suddenly thought to be the health care issue with the best chance for passage this year....
Managed Care October 2004	Medical, Prescription Drug Cost Rates to Drop in 2005 The 2005 Segal Health Plan Cost Trend Survey predicts that increases for prescription drug coverage will decelerate in 2005, but still remain significantly above general inflation and wage increases.
Managed Care November 2007	Patient Advocates Want Part D Changes A Medicare-administered drug benefit would be more affordable and comprehensive than the current private insurance-run drug benefit, say patient advocate groups.
Managed Care December 2007	Insurers Offer More Coverage to Fill Part D Gap Filling the gap in coverage in which the enrollee pays 100% of total drug costs before catastrophic coverage begins will be a significant issue that stand-alone Prescription Drug Plans and Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug plans face in 2008.
Managed Care September 2007	Ninety Percent of Adults Eligible For Medicare Have Drug Coverage A study from the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research finds that 90 percent of Americans age 65 and older now have prescription drug coverage, compared to more than 75 percent who were covered in 2004.
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Managed Care March 2005	ED drugs covered, but managed care unmoved Health care insurers account for the coverage of erectile dysfunction drugs.
Managed Care May 2002	House Weighs Giving Parity To Mental Health Mental health parity has resurfaced as a legislative initiative. A bill would require that insurers' level of mental health coverage be on a par with physical health coverage
Managed Care December 2005	Pharmacy Cost Increases Below Medical for the First Time in Four Years According to a survey of 70 health care insurers, prescription costs are expected to increase at a lower rate than medical costs during the next 12 months.
AskMen.com Brantley Oakey	Best Health Insurance Plans While health-care costs won't stop rising, we can curb our spending. Here is a list of the five best health insurance plans for single men based on best value.
Managed Care February 2007	Managed Care Outlook Coverage for children leads policy debate.
Managed Care February 2005	Medicare's Drug Coverage Seeks To Strike Compromise Health plan officials are still trying to determine just how the final rules for the new Medicare prescription drug benefit will affect them, because it appears that government officials tried their best to address the competing concerns of all players.
Managed Care September 2000	Any way you cut it, employers appear to save if Medicare adopts drug benefit A new analysis suggests that a prescription drug benefit in Medicare would reduce employer expense for health coverage--which, in turn, could encourage more employers to offer some form of drug coverage and thus reverse this erosion...
Managed Care April 2002	Where Employers, Employees Don't See Eye to Eye Hewitt Associates found key differences in employers' and employees' views of health coverage...
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Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2008 Mason Tenaglia et al.	Inside the Doughnut Hole An answer to your question: What does the Part D coverage gap do to drug sales?
Inc. August 2006 Jennifer Gill	Smart Questions For Your Insurance Agent Are you protected if a catastrophe hits? Quite possibly not. More than half of small businesses don't have business-interruption insurance, a recent survey found. Get on the case by asking these questions.
Managed Care April 2001	Employers easing prescription limitations? Some older medications once viewed by employers as "lifestyle" drugs when making benefit decisions are slowly gaining recognition as important components of primary care...
Managed Care December 2001	Tie to Employers Stresses Fragility Of Health Coverage About two thirds of Americans receive health insurance through their employers or families, and many gain or lose coverage when they marry, divorce, or move to new jobs...
Managed Care May 2006	Headlines On Deadline . . . Health plans appear to be having some trouble fulfilling a federal mandate that 80 percent of questions from Medicare beneficiaries about pharmacy coverage be answered within 30 seconds.
Managed Care February 2008	Employer-Backed Insurance Gets Nonpartisan Nod The majority of Americans believe that universal coverage costs should be shared by individuals, employers, and the government.
Investment Advisor April 2010 Marlene Y. Satter	Insurance Update: Implementing Healthcare NAIC is closely watching the reform debate to see how it will affect insurers and insured.
Managed Care May 2002 John Carroll	Efforts To Kill Coverage Mandates Run Up Against Powerful Forces State coverage mandates were a popular feature on legislative agendas throughout the '90s. But when the economy soured last year and premiums shot up at a double-digit pace, a few legislators began launching bills in the hopes of rolling back mandates. Not so fast
Managed Care October 2007	Managed Care Outlook Medical costs, utilization rates decline again.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2007 Mary Dalrymple	Gouged by Insurance? While consumer groups and insurance industry do battle, what can you do to make sure you're getting the coverage you need at an appropriate price?
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Managed Care December 2003	Pay-or-Play Ideas Make Employers Help Uninsured Employers would have to "pay or play" in some proposals for how to boost coverage for the uninsured.
Managed Care January 2001	Private Proposals Aim To Reduce Lack of Coverage Two new proposals to solve the conundrum of Americans without health coverage would build on the country's existing health system...
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The Motley Fool April 26, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Don't Quit Your Health Insurance Quitting a job can elevate you to new heights in your career. To keep from paying the price, however, you need to make sure you bring your health insurance with you.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2009 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform: You Can't Have It Both Ways Requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions needs to go hand-in-hand with requiring healthy people to purchase insurance.
Managed Care July 2000	Changing physicians: Why they do it More than 1 in 8 people changed their personal physician or other primary provider of health care last year. For people enrolled in HMOs, quality of care -- not something related to coverage -- was the number one impetus for switching providers.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Brian Orelli	Winners and Losers in Universal Health Care Here's a look at the companies that stand to win or lose if Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected -- and gets her three-pronged health-care reform plan through Congress.
Reason March 2009 Ronald Bailey	Pay Up A new study, by economists at Brigham Young University, the Brookings Institution, and the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that community rating raises premiums by 10 percent to 17 percent for individual policies and by 21 percent to 33 percent for family policies.
Investment Advisor June 2009 Marlene Y. Satter	What's In A Name There are several different classifications of insurance advisors should be aware of.
CFO June 1, 2009 Alix Stuart	Prescription for Progress? The enormous changes being contemplated for health care, and the staggering costs associated with them, which could draw heavily upon corporate coffers, ensure that even if the road to reform is fast, it will not be smooth.
The Motley Fool November 22, 2005 Brian Gorman	Saying No to Drugs Britain's policy of restricting drug access based on cost-benefit analyses should be on the radar screen of pharmaceutical investors.
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Insurance & Technology November 14, 2007 Karen Ignagni	Technology, Innovation Enable Health Insurers To Address Challenges The health insurance industry will continue to innovate and provide new tools to improve the quality of care and contain costs while working with government leaders to ensure Americans have greater access to affordable coverage.
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