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Idaho Department Of Insurance Cannot Predict Ongoing Cost Of Health Exchange
Nov 2011 – The Idaho Reporter (11/18, Hurst) reports that at yesterday's "meeting of the Idaho Health Care Task Force...Idaho Department of Insurance Director Bill Deal told lawmakers that he doesn't know how much it will cost to run a state-based insurance exchange.
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.
Our Divisions
Design Benefits maintains the following divisions of operations.
Each division can be tailored to the specific needs of our clients. Additionally, clients may choose to bundle or unbundled desired services from each division. This platform allows them the most flexible level of benefits and services, while keeping the costs associated with managing employee benefits to a minimum.
HSA Administration Services
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are an innovative approach to healthcare that allow employers to proactively contain costs without compromising the benefit offering to employees.
Third Party Administrative Services Division
We offer a full menu of Online Benefit Administration and Enrollment Services (through state-of-the-art technology), Risk Management, Claims Administration and comprehensive COBRA services.
Health, Disability and Life Division
At the core of every employee benefits package are your healthcare, disability and life programs. Before being tempted to cut back these crucial components, let us analyze and restructure your plan into a more effective and affordable model.
Wellness Programs
We offer a complete online wellness program with which employers can create a culture of wellness that improves employee morale and productivity. Through a series of reports, employers are able to quantify improved employee health measured by a reduction in absenteeism, short term disability claims and lower health care costs.
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Prescription Programs
These programs are available nationwide to individuals and their families who need maintenance medications but are unable to afford them.
Retirement Planning and Services Division
This division offers planning services for all individuals seeking qualified retirement planning to our group clients seeking 401(k) plans for their employees and the management associated with these offerings.
Web Development and Intranet
Through our Web division Design Benefits has the capability to offer employers the latest in online technology to help facilitate online benefit administration. This division offers web site design, existing site redesigns, corporate electronic newsletter design, computer and internet strategy consultation, e-commerce assistance, visitor traffic studies, content management solutions, computer technical support, database programming, ASP.NET upgrades, and more.
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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