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Antitrust Laws Shouldn't Prohibit Oil Companies From Assisting In Gulf Spill

FTC Chairman To Leahy: Antitrust Laws Shouldn't Prohibit Oil Companies From Assisting In Gulf Spill WASHINGTON (Wednesday, June 9, 2010) - The Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission has told Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) that federal anti...

Extension of TRICARE Health Insurance Coverage Included

Washington, D.C. - Last night, U.S. Senator Mark Udall joined his colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee in approving a critical defense bill, which lays the groundwork for defense policy and funding for the next fiscal year. Sen...

Teague Measure to Expand Health Care Coverage for Veterans Dependents Passes House

Washington, DC - Friday, the House of Representatives passed Congressman Harry Teague's amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would extend health care coverage for dependents of disabled veterans and veterans who d...

ASC X12 Unveils Industry Group Alignment in Support of National Health Reform Policy

The Accredited Standards Committee X12 (ASC X12) announced its alignment with the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) and Linxus which collectively represent hundreds of providers, health plans, pharmacies and systems de...

Insurance: On the Offense

After the tumultuous finish to the years when he built Columbia/HCA into the nations largest healthcare company, Rick Scott came to Florida. In 2001, without much notice, he backed creation of an urgent-care company, Jacksonville-based Solan...

House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises Hearing Hearing

Good morning. Since the start of the financial crisis, we have done much work to understand its root causes and to pass robust reform legislation initially in the House and the Senate that will end the era of too-big-to-fail financial compa...

Clyburn Floor Statement on Historic Health Insurance Reform Legislation

WASHINGTON, DC--House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn today delivered remarks on the floor of the House of Representatives in favor of H.R. 4872, Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act, landmark legislation that enacts th...

Which health and human services items are budget targets?

Florida lawmakers spent this year's legislative session bemoaning a lack of money. But that didn't stop them from trying to bring home the bacon for health and human-service programs in their districts. From the Panhandle to Miami, the stat...

Woodlands Hills Insurer Regains Military Contract

Health Net Inc. last week finally received some good news about a large military contract it feared it had lost. But the Woodland Hills managed care provider still wont be the same company it was before the ordeal began. Aetna Inc. in June...

Kanjorski Holds Hearing on the State of Accounting and Auditing Standards

Kanjorski Holds Hearing on the State of Accounting and Auditing Standards Washington, DC - Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski (D-PA), the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsor...

UNIVAL Announces a Connectivity Solution for the Healthcare Industry

UNIVAL is announcing its Digital Data Direct(TM) Remote* connectivity solution. D3(TM) Remote is an interface that provides universal connectivity between any electronic systems that contain or transfer medical data such as Electronic Healt...

Anadolu Sigorta Opts for Accenture's Claims Solution to Support Its Transformation Program

Accenture said that it has been selected to license, implement and maintain the Accenture Claim Components Solution, its claims management application, at Anadolu Sigorta, a Turkish property and casualty (PC) insurer. The company said the s...

Hypercom Introdues New Payment Terminals

Hypercom has introduced the L5000, a new product family of customer-facing, multipurpose, multimedia payment terminals featuring the broadest range of functional and communication capabilities for the spectrum of multilane retailers. Accord...

Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. Leads Tuesday's AMBG as Global Insurance Index Declines 0.71%

The AMBG closed Tuesday, May 11, at 801.65 (-0.71%). Of the 15 A.M. Best stock indexes, five rose and 10 declined. Leading A.M. Best's Global Insurance Composite Index (AMBG) were Hyundai Marine Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. (+6.28%) and Health N...

Lesbians and Gay Men Show Broad Support for Health Care Reform

In a national survey following President Obama's signature on the final health care reform legislation, 46% of all Americans expressed support for the plan (with 54% opposed). That measure of support, however, escalates sharply among gay me...

WellCare May Pursue Cash From Former CEO

WellCare Health Plans Inc., the Florida-based health insurer, may try to recover money from former Chief Executive Officer Todd S. Farha after finding claims of financial misstatements have merit. Claims against Farha, who also had been cha...

Health Insurers Deny Some Due to Job

Health insurers in California refuse to sell individual coverage to people simply because of their occupations or use of certain medicines, according to documents obtained by The Times. Entire categories of workers , including roofers, pro...

Snowe Calls on Majority Leader Reid to Include Strong Derivatives Title in Financial Regulation Reform Bill

U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, today in a letter urged Majority Leader Harry Reid to include critical provisions to create transparency and stability within the derivatives markets...

Emerson: Health Law Penalties to Hit 4,000,000 Americans

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (MO-08) said the Congressional Budget Office today divulged that four million Americans are likely to be subject to the penalties for not carrying government-approved health insurance in 2016. This law...

Ministry of Health says changes are needed to overcome challenges to healthcare provision in the Middle East

Middle East Innovations Summit, was officially opened this morning with a ribbon cutting ceremony followed by an opening address by Dr. Salem Al Darmaki, Acting Director General, Ministry of Health - United Arab Emirates - at the Yas Island...

QIO Uses Milliman Care Guidelines(R) for Medicare Reviews in New Jersey

Healthcare Quality Strategies, Inc. (HQSI), one of the nation's leading Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), has signed a five-year licensing agreement with Milliman Care Guidelines LLC, A Milliman Company, to use the Care Guidelines f...

UnitedHealth Group Rolls Out Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance

UnitedHealth Group announced it is launching the Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance, a partnership with YMCA of the USA and Walgreens to help prevent and control diabetes, pre-diabetes and obesity. According to a release, the Diabetes...

Allsup Releases Report on Healthcare Legislation Effects on People with Disabilities

Allsup, a nationwide provider of Social Security disability representations and Medicare Plan selection services, announced the release of data on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliati...

Pending Program to Pump $5 Billion Into Employer Health Plans for Retirees

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the White House have released a more detailed explanation of a program that will insure early retirees with coverage assistance -- one of the earliest health care reform provisions set fo...

Healthcare Entrepreneur Back in Business

Armed with $150 million in investor money, veteran entrepreneur Miguel ``Mike'' Fernandez charged back into the health insurance market in a big way Tuesday with the purchase of Total Health Choice, betting that Medicaid HMOs are about to u...

Drug, Device Companies Require Product, Trial Policies

The trials and tribulations of drug and medical device companies are numerous,financing, products that may not pan out, regulatory hurdles, competition. Then there's insurance. Insurance has gotten more costly for just about all companies i...

INDIA'S RELIGARE TO FINALISE BANK PARTNER FOR HEALTH INSURANCE

After parting ways with Switzerland-based Swiss Re last year, Indian financial services firm Religare Enterprises (BSE:532915) is now in the process of finalising a domestic bank as partner for its proposed health insurance business. We are...

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