WebMD forms HSA partnership
WebMD, an online health information provider, is partnering with US Bank to offer content and tools for health savings account holders.
Among the tools is technology to help account holders decide their optimal HSA contributions and what tax savings that money can generate. US Bank account holders also would have links to medical resources and hospital comparison tools.
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United discounts some drug co-pays
UnitedHealth Group is offering $20 discounts off monthly co-pays for certain prescriptions in what the company calls an "adherence incentive."
The discounts, scheduled to begin Oct. 1, will be available to members who refill certain asthma and antidepressant prescriptions within 30 days after the last prescription runs out.
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Aetna stops paying for some "never events"
As part of what it called a new patient safety initiative, Aetna said it will not pay for three so-called never events: performing the wrong surgery, performing surgery on the wrong person, or performing surgery on the wrong part or side of the body.
Additionally, facilities, physicians and other health care professionals will be required to waive all charges related to any of these events.
Aetna said health care facilities will also be required to waive charges that are directly and solely related to eight other specific serious reportable events.
The print version of this content appeared in the Sept. 14, 2009 issue of American Medical News.
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