Employers Get More Time on Health Exchange Notices

1/30/2013 10:33:32 AM

January 27, 2013 | by David Pittman, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today

WASHINGTON — The March 1 deadline for employers to notify workers about health insurance exchanges available under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is being pushed back, the government said this week.

Under a provision of the ACA, businesses need to provide to each employee a written notice informing them about

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Valuing Value: California Mines New Health Coverage Plan Concepts

1/18/2013 4:18:06 PM

January 18,2013 | by Rita Pyrillis,Workforce

As the push to manage health care costs and help employees become smarter health care consumers gains traction at companies across the country, California is emerging as a sort of testing ground for a concept known as “value-based insurance design.”

Also known as a VBID, the plans aim to reshuffle how medical dollars are spent by assessing

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A Health Scare for Small Businesses

1/17/2013 11:00:31 AM

Ahead of Health-Care Law, Small Firms Worry About Crossing the Crucial 50-Person Threshold

January 16, 2013 | by Emily Maltby, The Wall Street Journal

During her two-plus years in business, Elizabeth Turley has steadily recruited new employees for her apparel company, Meesh & Mia Corp., to keep pace with its rapid growth. But this year could be different. Instead of increasing her staff,

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SeeChange Health Secures $15 Million in Series C Financing

1/7/2013 2:16:33 PM

Additional Funding Provided By Continuing Investors

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – SeeChange Health, an innovator in value-based benefit design solutions to improve health and reduce health care costs, announced it has secured its third round of $15 million in Series C financing from existing investment participants Psilos Group and Maverick Capital. SeeChange Health will use

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