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The Consumer Driven Health Care Institute was proud to sponsor the World Congress Employer Health and Human Capital Congress in Washington from February 2-5, 2010. Please stay in touch with CDHCI through our weekly newsletter to learn about our upcoming endorsed and sponsored events for 2010. Click on the link for additional information and advance registration for our future events.... Obama Offers to Use Some G.O.P. Health Proposals President Obama offered Tuesday to address some of the concerns expressed by Republicans in the health care debate as the two parties maneuvered for advantage heading into the legislative end game. In a letter to Congressional leaders of both parties, Mr. Obama said he was open to four specific ideas raised by Republicans at the daylong health care forum last week, including encouraging the use of tax-advantaged medical savings accounts and increasing payments to doctors who treat Medicaid patients... Fix Health Care Costs To Lower Insurance Rates, Obama Advised Health insurance premiums are driven by health care costs that must be addressed before premiums can be brought under control, health care industry executives told the President today. They made their point at a White House meeting attended by President Obama, other administration officials and state insurance regulators.... GOP rejects Obama's compromise offer on health bill President Obama offered to add a handful of Republican ideas to his 10-year, $950 billion health care plan Tuesday but was rebuffed and urged to start over. A quick exchange of letters did little to bring the two sides together, five days after a summit showcased vast differences between Obama's comprehensive and Republicans' incremental approaches..... Medical Banking Rx Receives Disruptive Innovator Award CDHCI Member Medical Banking Rx, LLC, a full service pharmacy benefit management (PBM) firm, today announced that it has received the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Medical Banking Project Disruptive Innovator Award. The Disruptive Innovator Award was in recognition of the development of Patient Driven RxSM, a truly unique prescription drug program that provides real-time solutions to the deficiencies inherent in the Consumer Driven Health (CDH) market.... New findings from University of Illinois in the area of risk analysis published According to recent research published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, We use unique data from an insurer that exclusively offers high-deductible, consumer-directed health plans to identify the effect of plan features, notably employer contributions to the spending account, on health care spending. Our results show that the marginal dollar contributed by the employer to the spending.... The President’s Health Reform Proposal: Insurance And Revenue Provisions Although the proposal was posted as a prelude to the February 25 health care summit between Democrat and Republican congressional leadership and the president, it is not a mere ideas piece or discussion draft. Rather, it is essentially the outline of a budget reconciliation bill that—in tandem with HR 3590, already enacted by the Senate—would complete the task of comprehensive health care reform when adopted by both Houses....
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