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12/08/2010

Barbara Duck

I think the Office of Personnel management developing their own formulas is a great idea and this way we could have some impartial algorithms not slanted by any one insurance company. I wrote about that this week.

Also on the FDA model, they had to outsource part of their Sentinel project on this to an insurance company, as they were not ready with the IT infrastructure required to do this independently.

At any rate it is a good opportunity for both to begin updating and using internal IT processes that are not generated by insurance companies.


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