by Eriksen Insurance | Apr 16, 2012 | Heath Care Costs
Employee Benefit News reports: “Cost increases for health care are perhaps finally slowing down, with employer health benefit expenditures not expected to increase in 2012 at the same explosive growth in recent years. Costs for all types of medical plans are...
by Eriksen Insurance | Mar 6, 2012 | Medicare
Insurance News Net reports: “CHICAGO, Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –More than half (56 percent) of America’s middle-income Boomers admit to knowing little or almost nothing about the Medicare program and one in seven (13 percent) falsely believe...
by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 16, 2012 | Insurance Reform
New York Times reports: “The Obama administration thought it had found a way to ease mounting objections to a requirement in the new health care act that all employers — including religiously affiliated hospitals and universities — offer coverage for birth...
by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 16, 2012 | Heath Care Costs
Benefits pro reports: “MIAMI (AP) — Federal authorities say they recovered $4.1 billion in health care fraud judgments last year, a record high which officials on Monday credited to new tools for cracking down on deceitful Medicare claims. The recovered funds...
by Eriksen Insurance | Feb 7, 2012 | Insurance Reform
The Huff Post reports: “Health-care reform will not begin in earnest until 2014. However, 2012 will define whether it makes it that far. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on reform’s constitutionality before it adjourns in June. If the new law...
