Posts Tagged ‘Health System’

Health system needs more than bandaid
Filed under: commonwealth health insurance

They observe that "private health insurance is often referred to as the most heavily regulated industry in the Australian marketplace" and that the degree of regulation is maintained on an implicit basis "as if it (the industry) were an extension of …
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KY Requires Insurers to offer Child-Only Policies
Filed under: commonwealth health insurance

FRANKFORT, KY (12/17/11) – Under a 2010 order from Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark, all insurers selling in the commonwealth's individual health insurance market must offer an annual open enrollment period in January for Kentuckians …
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More workers take second jobs to get by
Filed under: commonwealth health insurance

When they're unsure, they're reluctant to add jobs — especially full-time positions with costly benefits such as health insurance, said Robert Trumble, director of the Virginia Labor Studies Center at Virginia Commonwealth University. …
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A Civic Duty to Be Healthy
Filed under: medical cost of obesity

More and more companies now require employees who smoke, are overweight or have high cholesterol to pay a greater share of their health care costs. According to Mercer, a consulting firm specializing in corporate health policies, about a third of …
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Heal the health system
Filed under: medical cost of obesity

In other words, medicines, medical technologies, doctors' salaries and other healthcare costs make up a larger percentage of an average household's expenditures. As a result, poor families are finding it increasingly harder to pay for basic medical …
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Subsidy for private treatment in public hospitals to be abolished
Filed under: medical private

THE GOVERNMENT is to eliminate the subsidy provided for private medical treatment carried out in public hospitals. The move, which involves further increasing the cost of private beds in public hospitals, will generate about €18 million in additional …
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Doctors, hospitals go into business as equals
Filed under: medical private

The Warren-based health system has set up three companies with physicians to help health system leaders manage cardiovascular services at its east side hospitals, surgery services at its west hospitals and medical neurology across its five-hospital …
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The medical war on Israel
Filed under: medical private

Through the private program “Save the heart of a child,” the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon cures congenital cardiologic defects in Arab children from all over the world. About half the children it treats are from the nearby Palestinian areas and …
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Washington D.C. Health System Implements WebChart from Medical Informatics …
Filed under: cost of medical treatment
FORT WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — In an effort to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for patients on eight US Military bases throughout the Area Support Group – Kuwait while also keeping costs down, Medical Informatics … Read more on PR Newswire (press release)

Cato Institute Slams Caps on Medical Malpractice Damages
Filed under: cost of medical treatment
Rather, it would discourage the use of inefficient defensive medicine, where the expected costs of a test or treatment exceed the expected benefits, and promote efficient defensive medicine, where expected benefits exceed expected costs. … Read more on InjuryBoard.com

DataCare, EK Health Partner with Large Employer to Decrease Workers' Comp …
Filed under: cost of medical treatment
The collaborative study confirmed that inappropriate payments were being made to medical providers when neither medical treatment authorization had been given nor original approval obtained to perform treatments. … Read more on MarketWatch (press release)

Health insurance options in Wisconsin plentiful
Filed under: mississippi health insurance
By Guy Boulton of the Journal Sentinel Wisconsin has the most competitive market in the country for health insurance sold to individuals and families, and one of the most competitive markets for insurance sold to small employers, according to a recent … Read more on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Singing River Health System to open clinic in Pascagoula Walmart
Filed under: mississippi health insurance
By Harlan Kirgan, Mississippi Press PASCAGOULA, Mississippi — Singing River Health System plans to open a basic health care clinic inside the Pascagoula Walmart store on Nov. 7. "The Clinic at Walmart" is the health system's first venture into … Read more on Mississippi Press (blog)

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OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Abortion reclaims center stage
Filed under: medical billing class
The Ways and Means Committee marks up a bill to fix a "glitch" in the healthcare reform law that could make some middle-class people eligible for Medicaid. HHS is making an announcement about how the National Health Service Corps has expanded the … Read more on The Hill (blog)

Medical Billing Assistance, Inc. Turns Profit; 1st Time in History.
Filed under: medical billing class
26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Continuing with their plan first launched in January 2011 to go beyond medical billing, and redirecting the company's efforts toward creating an innovative state-of-the-art approach to healthcare, Medical Billing Assistance, … Read more on PR Newswire (press release)

Posted: October 6, 2011 – 11:30 am ET
Filed under: medical billing class
based health system discovered in August that medical information for 20000 emergency room patients released to a billing and collections contractor had been publicly available online for a year. The vendor, Multi-Specialty Collection Services, … Read more on ModernHealthcare.com