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Healthcare Reform – Individual Mandate Health Insurance
July 2010 – Effective January 1st, 2014, "applicable individuals" will be required to maintain "minimum essential coverage" for themselves and their dependents. "Applicable individuals" who fail to maintain "minimum essential coverage" will be required to pay a "penalty" on their tax return.
NIHN Prescription Assistance Program
October 2009 – Working to optimize health and promoting solutions designed to achieve high quality, cost-effective health care, North Idaho Health Network is partnering with MEDPro ( a corporate affiliate of Design Benefits) to add a Prescription Assistance Program to the services they offer their 270 member physicians and five member hospitals in the five Northern Counties of Idaho.
Prescription Assistance Program Offered
Jan 2008 - Design Benefits has added to their portfolio of health care related services by offering a prescription assistance program. This program is available nationwide to individuals and their families who need maintenance medications but are unable to afford them.
Strategic Alliances
BRMS Selects Design Benefits as Pacific Northwest Branch
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho July 18, 2006 — Benefit & Risk Management Services (BRMS), a leading benefit administration and healthcare risk management TPA, has selected Design Benefits, a Coeur d’ Alene benefits consulting firm to develop business relationships in the Pacific Northwest corridor of Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Wyoming.
Tina Jeffrey, principal of Design Benefits, and her team will be in charge of strategic level management of client accounts and developing new business relationships in the Pacific Northwest region as BRMS continues to grow and expand.
As the Pacific Northwest branch of BRMS, Design Benefits will be readily available to clients to analyze, plan and build their employee benefits administration systems while building trusted and valued relationships with new clientele states BRMS President, Scott Reid.
Design Benefits’ consultants are industry experts in employee benefits design, planning and administration who will assist clients with everything from plan creation to online administration with our exclusive Virtual Benefits Administration System (Vbas®).
About Benefit & Risk Management Services, Inc.
Benefit & Risk Management Services is a leading employee benefit administration and healthcare risk management TPA that is building trusted and valued relationships to reduce healthcare costs.
Redefining the value of Third Party Administration with the most advanced technology solutions, BRMS helps over 400 organizations (including IT industry leaders, school districts, credit unions, hospitals, home builders and vineyards) control their benefit costs with advanced administration services, creative funding options and an innovative Web-based Virtual Benefits Administration System (Vbas®) that streamlines processes.
Design Benefits is a leading, national employee benefits firm and a provider of Third Party Administration (TPA) services.
We offer healthcare, disability and life programs, prescription assistance programs, wellness, as well as Retirement Planning and Services. Through an advanced innovative web-based platform called Virtual Benefits Administration System (Vbas®) clients are offered a menu of services that help streamline the administration processes for efficient data management. We also offer the latest in online technology to help facilitate online benefit administration.
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