Sentences with phrase «insurance companies»

He also helped Prem Watsa, a colleague at boutique investment firm Gardiner Watson in the 1980s, understand why insurance companies are good investments.

China also said on Wednesday it was accelerating a plan originally announced in November to lift the foreign ownership restriction in life insurance companies, following Xi's pledge the day before to speed up the opening up of the insurance sector.

China will raise foreign ownership limits to 51 percent in securities, fund management, futures and life insurance companies «over the next few months», the PBOC said in a statement on its website.

Insurance companies pass the costs along to us.

The Graham - Cassidy bill would not erase the protections under the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare law also known as Obamacare, preventing insurance companies from outright denying coverage to those with preexisting conditions, but it could allow for more expensive premiums.

Insurance companies could join the reinsurance pool provided they don't discriminate against customers.

Insurance companies have received at least 100,000 claims for cars impacted by Harvey, according to Wired.

As a result, insurance companies in the US that readily pay for morphine may not pick up the tab for pricier medications, or for nonpharmaceutical therapies.

Smokers may be protected during hiring, but there are no laws in place that keep insurance companies from hiking up their premiums.

There are marijuana - focused services like law firms, public relations firms, marketers, accountants, insurance companies — even janitorial services.

Several private insurance companies also offer export credit insurance, including HSBC, AIG and Euler Hermes.

The drug is particularly valuable to insurance companies, who will pay top dollar for treatments that help patients avoid the ravaging and expensive - to - treat effects of Hepatitis C.

The other issue is that many insurance companies that service small business don't carry all of the types of insurance that you are required by your client to carry or they may not carry the coverage at the levels required by the client.

Ng also added that insurance companies often consider skin tag removal to be a cosmetic procedure, so it's often not covered.

Life insurance companies get special rules, and, thankfully, institutions participating in the bailout are excluded altogether.»

List prices don't represent prices paid by insurance companies and pharmacy benefits managers, which in turn don't represent the prices ultimately paid by patients.

His clinic typically received payments through third parties, mostly health insurance companies.

Hill found a solution: The state would give the company $ 195 million in transferable tax credits previously set aside for filmmakers and insurance companies, which it could then sell.

These include Congress, the President, various outside stakeholders — including insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry — and the American people.

More players continue to enter the marketplace, including yield - hungry investors, such as insurance companies, that look to get into the small business lending game.

Rourke believed he could convince insurance companies that the ECU, which now sells for $ 5,000, would similarly reduce the costs of caring for 20 million disabled people in this country alone.

Though much time is spent gutting, draining, and rebuilding houses and stores, dealing with insurance companies, contractors and code violations eats up even more time and require real organizing chops.

«It keeps individual mandate but makes you pay the insurance companies instead of the government,» he wrote.

There have been worries that such practices mask the amount of risk that banks and other financial entities, such as insurance companies, are taking on.

Envision has blamed insurance companies.

Soon the Mirzas were signing on to do work with insurance companies, advertising agencies, and government offices.

If there's a billing dispute it can take months of phone calls and emails to get a case resolved, said Conley, who gained an insider's knowledge during years working for insurance companies.

Glickman: A common pivot we see is around health care: Students want to do something for patients, and as they develop their idea, they realize that it's the insurance companies that pay for this service, so they need to pivot one part of the business by thinking about the needs of who's paying.

«According to a document obtained by Reuters, Valeant employees Bijal Patel and Gary Tanner received a November 2014 email providing guidance on ways to re-submit rejected claims to insurance companies in order to obtain higher reimbursement amounts,» said the Cummings letter.

«Insurance companies are on the mend,» says Raschkowan.

Medicare's architects also appointed insurance companies to act as program administrators, to operate as intermediaries between the federal government and hospitals and physicians, a role that they have to this day.

As my research demonstrates, we have these problems because insurance companies are at the center of the system, where they both finance and manage medical care.

He'd entertained partnering with insurance companies and media companies, but he always worried they'd exploit all the data MapMyFitness gathers about people's personal habits in ways that would violate the trust he'd built with the community.

He first bought up insurance companies and then a whole host of other kinds of companies, including retailer Nebraska Furniture Mart, See's Candies, catalog company Oriental Trading, ice cream scooper Dairy Queen, underwear maker Fruit of the Loom, railroad firm Burlington Northern, and, most recently in partnership with Brazilian investment firm 3G, ketchup maker Heinz.

This could be the year that businesses implement what they learn in controversial ways, like insurance companies using predictive analytics to profile customers and adjust premiums accordingly.

Other insurance companies have 50 % of their business in ASO products, which means that Cigna is less exposed to those unexpected costs than many of its competitors.

Health insurance companies are exploring new ways to diversify their revenues with acquisitions in acute care after federal regulators blocked two major mergers in the sector, and insurance exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, came under pressure from Republicans.

During the 1930s, insurance companies sold life insurance policies and worked with businesses to provide employee pensions.

Hillary Clinton is calling for a public option, which, if passed, would weaken the power of insurance companies.

The NYFDS promulgates and enforces regulations governing banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions that do business in the state.

For financial stocks, there are more opportunities for insurance companies to add value than for the large banks.

AMA leaders decided that rather than allowing doctors to insure patients, only insurance companies would be permitted to offer medical coverage.

One key to making QA work, Katz says, is effective communication — a challenge on projects like HealthCare.gov, which involved stitching together information from multiple stakeholders, including state health agencies, insurance companies, and the federal government.

Finally, the AMA prohibited insurance companies from supervising physician work.

An amendment from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was roundly criticized by insurance companies over the weekend, who warned that it would create an unsustainable market.

Quite a few asset managers, quite a few insurance companies and banks are setting up, or stepping up their presence there,» Gramegna said.

First, insurance companies were forbidden from financing multi-specialty physician groups.

With a $ 90 million cut in Obamacare outreach funding by the Trump administration, insurance companies have been stepping up to inform Americans about the ongoing open enrollment period for plans sold under the Affordable Care Act.

While no insurance companies defaulted on payments — they had enough cash to fund payouts — regulators were still concerned about falling reserves.

Earlier this year, Jones launched a public initiative asking commercial insurance companies to write policies to cover what he described as «coverage gaps» in the industry.