Colorado health insurance program provides undocumented immigrants coverage

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The program’s first year of operation cost tens of millions and has saved wellbeing and lives. The first year of the Colorado health insurance program offering undocumented immigrants with healthcare is now offering its first annual data tallies. In the state, every insurer offering coverage must sell to everyone, regardless of documentation status. Undocumented immigrants can legally obtain health insurance coverage in the state. In its first year of operation, the state paid $73 million to insurers for the program. This does not subtract the amount paid into the program…

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New mandatory cashless health insurance requirement implemented in Punjab

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The government of the northern Indian state has now announced that this program is mandatory for its employees. The Punjab government has now announced that it is making its cashless health insurance program a mandatory form of coverage for all of its employees as well as for pensioners. The strategy is meant to help to make sure that coverage is protecting current and retired workers. According to a spokesperson from the Punjab government, it “has notified the cashless health insurance scheme which has been made mandatory for all the government…

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Health insurance program at University of Central Arkansas to change

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The board of trustees at the college has voted to alter the design in order to become a self-insured model. The board of trustees at the University of Central Arkansas has now put the school’s health insurance program in the spotlight as it will be changing the current design for employees to one that is based on a self-insured model. The changes that have been made to the coverage program will go into effect in January. When the insurance program changes were put to a vote, they were passed unanimously…

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Tennessee children’s health insurance program will be federally funded

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The state is about to save over $100 million over two years as the federal government picks up the tab. As the federal government takes over the majority of the bill for the children’s health care program in Tennessee, the state will now be able to save more than $100 million over a span of two years. The state has managed this by taking advantage of a provision of the Affordable Car Act that isn’t widely known. This windfall is certainly expected to be a helpful one, though temporary, as…

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Health insurance trust formed in Indiana

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Access to federal exchange has been restricted Federal health insurance exchanges in the U.S. were meant to offer coverage options for small groups and businesses, but this feature of the exchange initiative has been put on hold until 2015, at the earliest. The decision to postpone this aspect of federal exchanges is meant to provide the exchange network with more time to iron out the multitude of technical problems it has been having over the past month. The problem, however, is that this means many small groups and businesses that…

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