by Carrie Haubensak | Mar 30, 2023 | Medicare, news
The groups wrote a letter to officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the need for such a hybrid payment model. The missive comes as CMS has tried in recent months to get more rural and primary care providers invested in value-based...
by Carrie Haubensak | Mar 30, 2023 | Insurance Industry, Medicare, news
AmeriLife Group, LLC (“AmeriLife”), a national leader in developing, marketing, and distributing life and health insurance, annuities and retirement planning solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Louisville, Ky.-based Axis Medicare Advisors, one of the...
by Carrie Haubensak | Mar 28, 2023 | Insurance Industry, Medicare, news
Integrity Marketing Group, LLC (“Integrity”), a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, announced it has acquired Easy Street Insurance, an independent marketing organization (“IMO”) based...
by Carrie Haubensak | Mar 23, 2023 | Insurance Industry, Life Insurance, news
Enough positive variables are in play for LIMRA analysts to project record-level life insurance premium through 2024. Specifically, December 2020 changes to the Internal Revenue Service tax code criteria that cash value life insurance policies must meet to retain...
by Carrie Haubensak | Mar 23, 2023 | Insurance Industry, news
Wink Inc. reported deferred annuity sales in both the fourth quarter, and in all of 2022, were the greatest they have been since Wink began tracking sales of the product in 2015. It is likely the greatest sales have ever been for deferred annuities. Total fourth...
by Carrie Haubensak | Mar 23, 2023 | Insurance Industry, news
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s recent breakdown of the hospital sector’s financial viability largely struck a different tone from the doom and gloom industry groups have voiced as of late. The independent commission advises Congress on year-to-year...
