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NAIC Highlights 2020 Medigap Plan Shift Materials
By Allison BellThe regulator group has created a bulletin for producers as well as a consumer alert.
November 11, 2019
Awareness of AD&D Is Good, Too: Jennifer GassawayThe product doesn't have a big outreach campaign behind it, but a Standard exec says it can protect people against disaster.
November 11, 2019
The Case Against Step TherapySome health insurers use step therapy to hold down drug costs. The author makes the case that this strategy has backfired.
November 11, 2019
Medicare Part B Premium Price Outpaces Social Security COLAThis uneven relationship means leaves Part B premium increase eating eat up nearly 10% of the average Social Security monthly benefit in 2020.
November 11, 2019
Kaiser Permanente CEO Dies at 60Bernard Tyson told an interviewer that a 2006 heart attack helped prepare him for his job.
November 08, 2019
Medicare Part B Premium to Rise 6.7%Officials say the increase is due to the cost of physician-administered drugs.
November 08, 2019
Millennials' Declining Health Could Hurt the Economy: Moody'sOlder millennials experience more chronic health conditions than previous generations did at the same age.
November 07, 2019
Lawmakers' Constituents Like Medicare Advantage: Allyson SchwartzThe Better Medicare Alliance president says Medicare Advantage plans have many friends on Capitol Hill.