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Anthem Ordered to Pay for Liver Transplant
Anthem Blue Cross of California has been ordered to reimburse a Los Angeles man the $206,000 he spent on a liver transplant despite having been insured by the company at the time he was diagnosed as a transplant patient-candidate. Ephram Ne...
Fellows program into second year
Five Oklahoma college students will sample entrepreneurial life in an advanced technology start-up company for 10 weeks this summer as participants in the second i2E Fellows program. Sponsored by the Greater Oklahoma Chamber, the i2E Fellow...
Hospice of Green Country announces board
Hospice of Green Country announced its 2010 Board of Directors . Hal Salisbury, president of Oklahoma Offset, was elected president. Additionally, Herb Hascke Jr. was voted treasurer and Don Hamilton secretary and chair of the Development C...
OU breaks ground on clinic
University of Oklahoma officials broke ground on the University of Oklahoma Wayman Tisdale Specialty Health Center, to be located at 36th Street North and Hartford Avenue. Construction is scheduled to begin in the spring of this year. The fa...
Nearly $1 million in free dental care available for two days in Tulsa
On Feb. 4, more than 1,000 dental professionals and community volunteers will begin setting up approximately 800 chairs, 90 portable dental chairs and dental equipment at the Tulsa Convention Center arena. The free, two-day dental clinic is...
Oklahoma senior care company opens new location
Oklahoma City-based Christian Companion Senior Care, the nations first senior care franchise to combine practical and spiritual assistance, is expanding into Arkansas, with its grand opening Feb. 4 in Sherwood, Ark. More than 61,000 seniors...
Rural Health Care Boosted Through Small Business
Rural Americans make up about 20-25 percent of the nations population but only 9 percent of the nations physicians practice in rural areas, according to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. But some rural communities are putting...
Hispanics Need Health Insurance Reform
The debate over medical health reform is divided into warring camps as to whether we should or should not keep the present system. For the Hispanic community, lack of reform has grave consequences. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, of th...
Pharmacies Switching Patients’ Drugs to Save Money, Some Charge
Consider this scenario: A patient walks into a pharmacy, drops off a prescription and ends up with an entirely different drug than the one prescribed by his or her doctor. Not a generic drug, but a nonchemically equivalent alternative drug...
Medical Sector Focus Delivers Healthy Returns
With the future of health care reform more than a little hazy, opening an investment banking office with a significant focus on health care services may seem risky. But not if youre concentrating on the right companies, according to Alexand...
Lung Device Maker Raised $50M, Eyes 2015 U.S. Sales
Rox Medical Inc., one of the countys better funded medical device makers, wants to help people with chronic lung diseases breathe easier. San Clemente-based Rox is working on a device to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The dise...
Ista Set To Turn First Yearly Profit on Drug Sales
Irvine-based Ista Pharmaceuticals Inc. says it is set to turn its first full-year profit in its nearly 20-year existence. Ista, which makes drugs for treating various eye ailments, said it expects an operating profit of $8 million to $10 mi...
Bulk Buyers, Doctors, Committees Behind Billions in Hospital Buying
Getting medical devices and supplies into hospitals comes down to doctors and middlemen. Each year, hospitals in Orange County and across the country buy billions of dollars worth of devices and other supplies, with most routine purchases b...
Congress should be looking at easy ways to reduce health care costs as opposed to offering a public option.
Until recently, the fate of small businesses impacted by various congressional health reform plans was essentially ignored. But now that Congress and the president are discussing the need for small businesses to be covered by a health refor...
Physicians Speak Out on Healthcare Reform
Its a side of the healthcare reform debate that is seldom heard. Physicians at a recent town hall meeting at Northridge Hospital Medical Center strongly voiced concerns with a system they said is driving them out of practicing medicine, and...
budget cuts devastating to healthcare
Financial turmoil in the third and fourth quarters of 2008 led three state chartered banks in the greater San Fernando Valley area to apply for assistance from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. Considered by some a bailout, th...
Device Makers Debate How Reform Will Affect Business
Health insurancehow to provide it and how to pay for ithas dominated the national reform discussion. But medical device makers are watching the reform debates for other reasonsmainly to predict how it will affect business. It is still prema...
Home Nursing Provider for Elderly Seeks Out Place in Health Reform
Irvines AccentCare caters to sick and frail seniors whod rather stay in their homes. AccentCare, a privately owned, venture capital-backed company, provides skilled nursing and non-medical services such as dressing, bathing and bathroom hel...
Big Easing Seen in Health Costs
Businesses here are projected to pay 6.5% more on average for healthcare insurance in 2010 versus this year, according to Hewitt Associates Inc., a Chicago-based human resources service company. Next years projected growth rate is down from...
Health insurance premiums have risen for workers
Not every insurance carrier is raising its rates, but many are responding to the rising cost of healthcare by hiking premiums about 15 percent, and some are going higher, said Chuck Rosen, a real estate broker from Simi Valley who helps bus...
Local Healthcare Providers Offer New Senior Services
The healthcare industry has long sought to meet the needs of what is arguably the most vulnerable segment of the populationthe elderly. With the country in a recession, that segment is even more vulnerable, for the elderly are at increased...
Agreement Brings Paralysis Device to Medical Facilities
A device to treat partial leg paralysis has been made available to patients in a national network of orthotic and prosthetic facilities through an agreement with Bioness Inc., designer and manufacturer of the device. Valencia-based Bioness...
Firms Change Health Strategy
Switching the health plan for its 150 employees from one with no deductible to a plan with a $1,000 deductible meant more than $20,000 in annual savings for Valley Community Clinic. David Adelman, a partner in the law firm of Greenberg Bass...
Worker's Compensation Insurer Amid Turmoil
Employers Direct Insurance Company will reduce its staff by about 18 percent and lower premiums in an effort to reposition itself in the volatile California workers compensation market. The Agoura Hills -based company, a specialty direct wr...
Healthcare Costs Highlight Reasons for Reform in U.S.
The tab for healthcare in 2008 came to a whopping $2.34 trillion in the U.S. an average of $7,681 per person, according to a report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published in the January issue of Health Affairs....
Much to consider about COBRA subsidy law
THERE ARE SEVERAL pros and cons for Congress to weigh when it considers extending the law that temporarily subsidizes COBRA premiums of employees who are involuntarily terminated and want to keep health insurance offered by their former emp...
Industry Asks HHS for Deadline Extension on Medicare Secondary Payer Reporting
The deadline is fast approaching for insurers to begin new Medicare secondary-payer reporting requirements, and insurance industry groups are urgently requesting an extension. Insurers need more time before the April 1 implementation of the...
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