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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.
BRMS Selects Design Benefits as Pacific Northwest Branch
JUL 18, 2006 - Benefit & Risk Management Services (BRMS), a leading benefit administration and healthcare risk management TPA, has selected Design Benefits to develop new business relationships in the Pacific Northwest region as BRMS continues to grow and expand.
Tina Jeffrey and her team, industry experts in employee benefits design, planning and administration will assist clients with everything from plan creation to online administration with BRMS’s exclusive Virtual Benefits Administration System (Vbas®).
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