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    • Governor pushes for health insurance pilot project

      CHEYENNE Gov. Dave Freudenthal is plugging for one of his pet projects a health insurance pilot project in hopes it doesnt fall short again in the waning days of the Legislatures Budget Session. The governor told chamber of commerce executiv...

    • 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 o

      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...
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