Of those offering CDH plans this year, 56 percent are now using the HSA model, 35 percent of organizations are using the Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRA) model, and 9 percent use both.
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced the 2010 inflation adjusted amounts for health savings accounts (HSAs) in Revenue Procedure 2009-29.
Annual contribution limitation. For calendar year 2010, the annual limitation on deductions under a high deductible health plan is $3,050 for an individual with self-only [...]
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An annual census by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) of U.S. health insurance carriers released this week shows that the number of people covered by health savings accounts/high-deductible health plans (HSA/HDHPs) totaled 8.0 million in January 2009.
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Despite all the talk coming out of Washington for the need to radically reform healthcare, news continues to trickle to the surface about the success of consumer-driven health plans, especially those that utilize Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).
A report released this week by Canopy Financial, a company that supplies healthcare banking technology, said that account balances [...]
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I mentioned earlier this week that I would be in Scottsdale attending the annual Visa Prepaid Forum. This is the event hosted yearly by the people at Visa who work to bring us those stored value cards like the gift cards that look and operate pretty much like a bank debit card. The Forum has [...]
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Sometimes you see an idea delivered with so much clarity and succinctness that it makes you stop and wonder why no one has said it before and then repeated it over and over until it sinks in. Such an idea confronted me this morning as a read a post on the Tax Update Blog with [...]
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More evidence is out today that shows that high deductible health plans (HDHPs) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are working for a wide range of demographics — not just the “healthy and the wealthy” that some critics claim are the only ones to benefit.
UnitedHealthcare analyzed more than 200,000 of its 1.4 million members [...]
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Open enrollment time is upon us and many employers this year are offering health plans that include the option of opening a Health Savings Account (HSA). Find out how an HSA can benefit you.
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In looking for innovative health care solutions, I was drawn to an op-ed piece that Republican presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani published in the Boston Globe back on August 3, 2007. In a piece titled A free-market cure for US healthcare system he writes, “Instead of being more like Europe, we need to be more [...]
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