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Understanding the final ruling on Medical Loss Ratio
On December 2, 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its final ruling on the Medical Loss Ratio.
What does the Medical Loss Ratio final ruling say?
Effective January 1, 2012, the Affordable Care Act will require health ins...
Understanding the final ruling on Medical Loss Ratio
Copyright (c) 2011 Joe Maldonado
Water damage restoration is not just flushing the water out of the property and drying it up. There is much more in that but sadly enough, there are many homeowners who think that it is all about flushing and drying. In...
Navigating Healthcare Reform: Issuing Rebates
The Minimum Loss Ratio (MLR) mandate contained within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) has created a myriad of compliance requirements for health plans. The most complex and potentially costly of these will be issuing rebates...
Fluoride In Water
By Erika Parker Price
We all know that fluoride in our water can reduce tooth decay, but is it possible that too much can negatively affect our dental health?
For the first time in 50 years, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is recom...
Hurdles that the State Health Insurance Exchanges could face
It is anticipated that the state health insurance Exchanges will forever change the way Americans look at their health policies. But to say that the Exchanges have everything right going for them would be far-fetched statement. The Exchanges are sure to ...
Meaningful Use: It’s Not Just for PCPs Anymore
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has been out and about promoting the fact that specialists can meet requirements for the “meaningful use” incentive payment program as provided by the HITECH Act by taking advantage of exceptions in the...
Government Pell Grant Updates
The Department of Health and Human Services is the main Federal company liable for safeguarding the bodily and psychological well being of Americans and plays a pivotal function in offering fundamental human being services support particularly to individu...
Will There Be Definitely Grants For Everyone?
The Department of Health and Human Services is the main Federal company liable for safeguarding the bodily and psychological health of Americans and plays a pivotal function in offering fundamental individual services assistance particularly to individual...
Group Health Insurance: What Makes An "Unreasonable" Rate Increase?
The rate of medical inflation is currently 3.4% -- and yet employers around the country are often seeing rates far in excess of that. Legislators and media alike accuse carriers of giving "unreasonable increases."
Recently, the CEO of MVP Health Care,...
Guidelines governing the sharing of HIPAA Patient Wellness Info
HIPAA Protected Health Information Definition? HIPAA is quite comprehensive in terms of laying down guidelines governing the sharing or disclosure of Patient Well being Information and has five separate titles dedicated to such stipulations. The HIPAA Tit...
Government Business Grants - Engaging In Small Business Aided By The Department Of Health And Human
In 1953 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare became a cabinet degree department in the United Says. In 1979 the Department of Education Business Act split HEW into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS...
Govt Grant For Neighborhoods From the Department of HHS
The Department of Health and Human Services is the major Federal agency accountable for safeguarding the bodily and psychological wellbeing of Americans and plays a pivotal function in supplying simple human being services help specifically to all those a...
Government Grants For Small Business - Working On Business Aided By The HHS
In 1953 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare became a cabinet degree department in the United States. In 1979 the Department of Education Business Act split HEW into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. H...
Identify and fix your home health coding problems
If you were thinking that your home health agency would not have to worry about face to face encounters post CMS’s announcement in the last Open Door Forum that they did not apply to agencies, well you better think again.
The health care reform legisla...
HIPAA Training And Certification Programs
HIPAA training has come into focus after the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed in 1996 and became effective since 2003. The purpose of this enactment was to insure that those changing jobs would still be entitled to receive he...