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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.
Design Benefits Wellness Program (MyWellchoice+)
Design Benefits offers a national online wellness program that helps employers’ improve their bottom line with employee health and wellness programs.
The proprietary MyWellchoice+ program provides an interactive health and wellness experience that engages employees and their families in activities promoting fitness strategies, nutritional programs, lifestyle mentoring and personal development programs.
Program members receive a personal health risk assessment and a customized wellness plan along with motivational tools and services designed to help them achieve their personal health related goals.
Members are provided with an easy to understand view of their plan that creates a positive motivating environment that encourages them to continue to use their program.
With this turnkey online MyWellchoice+ program, employers 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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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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