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Investment Advisor August 2006 Elizabeth D. Festa	Retirement Planning: Retirement Advisor Profile Should you be using equity-indexed annuities as part of a portfolio for retiree financial advisory clients?
Investment Advisor August 2006 Marlene Y. Satter	Insurance Update: Insurance Multitasking Long-term care insurance is frequently a hard sell, until people are older and often ineligible for coverage. Planners thus may be interested in a multifaceted strategy that answers several needs at once.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Oh the Humana-ty Humana's high-roller strategy seems to be paying off. Should investors put much confidence in its stock?
Managed Care July 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Employers' Stock in Wellness Rises With No End in Sight Formerly, insurers used to devise new products and processes to attract purchasers. Now more and more employers are going to the plans and insisting on preventive care.
Managed Care July 2006 John Carroll	Banks Give Insurers an Offer Most of Them Cannot Refuse Managing the assets of a health savings account has banks excited, but leaving charges in the hands of members makes providers nervous.
Managed Care July 2006 Lola Butcher	Oncologic PET Study Seeks Basis for Coverage Decisions The launch of a new registry that will significantly expand Medicare's coverage of positron emission tomography may bring new clarity on appropriate uses for this technology -- and even more pressure on commercial health plans to cover the high-cost scans.
Managed Care July 2006 Ed Silverman	Managed Care Prepares For the Worst To cope with the possibility of an avian flu pandemic, health plans are devising ways to function even when their providers are being overrun and the insurers themselves face a vastly depleted workforce.
Managed Care July 2006 Michael Levin-Epstein	High-Tech Imaging Full of Kickback Dangers Health plans and their members could save billions of dollars a year if radiology costs could be contained. Some managed care companies begin to take a hard look at what's behind the explosion in costs for radiological services.
Managed Care July 2006 John Marcille	From the Grass Roots, A Demand for Health Security Fallout from the Medicare Modernization Act promises to rain down for years to come.
Managed Care July 2006 John Carroll	Proposal Would Limit Profit of Some California Plans California's insurance commissioner thinks some insurers have the potential to gouge the consumer, and wants to mandate a high medical loss ratio.
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