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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.
New Alliance with Wolf & Associates, Inc.
JAN 1, 2007 - Design Benefits is pleased to announce their alliance with Wolf & Associates, Inc. Headquartered in Spokane, Washington. Wolf & Associates have been long term care specialists since 1988.
The impetus for this alliance was both firms’ shared philosophy of building solid relationships of trust with clients and national insurance providers along with the innate talent of both parties to innovate and customize plans for clients to meet their health, taxation and estate planning needs.
The alliance between Design Benefits and Wolf & Associates provides for a powerhouse of information, knowledge and services in the long term care arena.
The use of long term care planning as an executive benefit for highly compensated employees and as a sophisticated wealth transfer tool for principals in successful C corporations illustrate only two aspects of the innovative manner in which long term care planning may be utilized.
Design Benefits welcomes queries from CPAs and attorneys who desire superlative expertise for their clients in this very specialized area.
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