More Liability for Employers with less than 20 Employees
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Business Insurance, COBRA/State Continuation, Health Insurance | No Comments »Much has been made about the changes to COBRA that are contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, but not too many people realize that every employer with less than 20 employees has obligations under this law ...
Will EMR Give Us Tort Reform?
Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Business Insurance, National Healthcare, politics | No Comments »Currently a doctor may be exposed to a malpractice suit if he overlooks something in a patient's file and the individual suffers because of it. Now imagine that the doctor is hooked up to a national electronic medical records ...
NICE?
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in National Healthcare, politics | No Comments »As part of Obama's stimulus bill, it sounds like the US is going to get its version of the UK's NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) or what I call the Department of Health Care Rationing. In October 2007, ...
SCHIP Signed: Doctors Get a Pay Cut
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Posted in Health Insurance, National Healthcare, politics | 2 Comments »Yesterday President Obama signed the 2009 reauthorization bill for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) program. This legislation will reportedly make about 4,000,000 individuals now eligible for that taxpayer funded health coverage at a cost of $33 billion ...
Georgia Gets a New Provider Network
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 Posted in Benefit Plan Design, Business Insurance, Health Insurance | No Comments »Deborah Michael and I organized an informal breakfast meeting this morning between physician practice consultant, Mike Fleischman and insurance company executive, Don Weitzel. Oil and water under most circumstances, but productive in this setting. To date Principal Life Insurance ...