Here is the latest edition of Model Consulting's Week in Review Newsletter. We
hope you find the Newsletter informative and helpful.
Your feedback is
extremely important to us. Please contact Tracy Duffield at 215.947.7167 or tduffield@modelconsultinginc.com to share your ideas, comments
and/or suggestions. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Financing Health Reform
This article contains a Blog entry dated May 21, 2009 from
www.benefitblog.com, a Benefit Blog provided through the eflexgroup.com. While the deadline to submit opinions has
passed (May 26, 2009) we want to make sure that our clients and business
associates are well informed about what is being considered by our Senate
Finance Committee.
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COBRA: Premium Subsidy Denial Appeals Procedure
Released
The
U.S. Department of Labor has released the COBRA
Premium Subsidy Denial Appeals Procedure for qualified beneficiaries
to follow if they have been denied a request to be treated as an Assistance Eligible
Individual. It contains instructions for the person to follow and provides an
online application process for the individual to complete and submit to the DOL
for review.
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Highmark BCBS: Butler
Memorial Hospital
Commercial Agreements with Butler Memorial
Hospital Expiring
For the past
few months, Highmark and Butler
Memorial Hospital
have been discussing a new contract and payment terms for the commercial
managed care and indemnity agreements between the two organizations. However,
the two organizations have not reached an agreement and the current contract
will expire on June 30, 2009. As a result, we have begun to notify groups and
members who may be affected if Butler
Memorial Hospital
and Highmark cannot agree on new contracts.
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UnitedHealthcare:
Policy Options for Health Reform
UnitedHealthcare is pleased to bring you this issue of the Health Care Modernization
News Flash to update you on health care issues under discussion in Washington, D.C.
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