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Large Employers Eyeing Retiree Medical Accounts as Alternative to Traditional Plans, Watson Wyatt Study Finds
EXCERPT: "With employer cutbacks in retiree health care benefits expected to accelerate, a small but increasing number of companies have started to introduce retiree medical accounts as an alternative to their traditional retiree medical benefits, according to a recent Watson Wyatt study."
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11/18/02—Watson Wyatt
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OCR Guidance Explaining Significant Aspects of the Privacy Rule
EXCERPT: "This guidance explains and answers questions about key elements of the requirements of the HIPAA Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (the Privacy Rule). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the Privacy Rule on December 28, 2000, and adopted modifications of the Rule on August 14, 2002."
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12/4/02—HHS Office for Civil Rights
Capitol Hill Watch | GOP Congressional Members Preparing 'Aggressive' Health Care Agenda
EXCERPT: "Responding to the "escalating crisis in health care," Republicans, who will assume control of Congress next year, are drafting a health care agenda that would "drastically reshape" how health care services are delivered, Gannett News/Detroit News reports..."
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12/16/02—kaisernetwork.org
Deemed IRAs – A Welcomed New Plan Design Feature
EXCERPT: "This new section, entitled deemed IRAs under qualified employer plans, permits participants to make IRA contributions to a "qualified employer plan," beginning for plan years after December 31, 2002. This means that traditional or Roth IRA contributions can be made to an employer's qualified plan (including a 401(a), 401(k), ESOP, 403(a) annuity, and governmental 401(a) plan), governmental 457(b) plan, or a 403(b) annuity."
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11/18/02—Groom Law Group
Despite Backlash, Most Physicians Continue to Contract with Managed Care Plans
EXCERPT: ""The findings are a bit surprising given the intense backlash against managed care and stories about physicians dropping out of managed care plans," said Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., president of HSC, a nonpartisan policy research organization funded exclusively by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation."
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11/7/02—Center for Studying Health System Change
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