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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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Tap Retirement Funds Penalty-Fr
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Getting Older, but working long
Copyright: The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind. Source: News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) Wordcount:... -
Health Plans awaiting verdict i
(BestWire Services Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Health plans expect to hear a final decision on 6 April... -
High-Deductible Health Plans Of
Study finds that high-deductible health plans are increasingly used by healthy people who are unlikely... -
Milliman Survey Says Dominate V
Copyright: PR Newswire Source: PR Newswire Wordcount: 753 SEATTLE, March 31 / PRNewswire / - Milliman... -
Aetna’s CEO Williams Tops Ind
HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Aetna's (NYSE: AET) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ronald A.... -
Investment Fund Files Suit MBIA
The Delaware Chancery Court is requested to cancel an agreement facilitated by the New York State Insurance... -
UnitedHealth Lands $21.8B Milit
UnitedHealth Group revenue from government programs is about to get much bigger. The Minnetonka health... -
Much to consider about COBRA su
THERE ARE SEVERAL pros and cons for Congress to weigh when it considers extending the law that temporarily... -
New York State Health Plans to
Affinity Health Plan, AmeriChoice by United HealthCare, Fidelis Care New York, Health Plus PHSP, Hudson...
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Aetna CEO Ronald A. Williams' 2
Apr. 23--Aetna Inc. Chief Executive Ronald A. Williams got $3.14 million in compensation for 2008 and... -
UnitedHealth, Aetna Win TRICARE
WASHINGTON, Jul 14, 2009 (A. M. Best via COMTEX)--UnitedHealth Group Inc. Aetna Inc. were awarded contracts... -
Seniors Defend Targeted Health
WASHINGTON -- One of the largest spending cuts Congress could rely on to pay for an overhaul of the nation's... -
Class-Action Suit Says Nationwi
A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against Nationwide Life Insurance Co. alleging the company... -
What is the Actual Number of Am
CNN has a fascinating post today on a question I've pondered in this space in the past: How many Americans... -
HealthMarkets, Subsidiaries Ban
HealthMarkets Inc. and two subsidiaries have settled a lawsuit by the Massachusetts attorney general that... -
Ingenix Acquires AIM Healthcare
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. FRANKLIN, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ingenix, a leading health information, technology... -
Economy-Driven Furloughs May Im
To deal with the economic downturn without laying off workers, some employers have instituted voluntary... -
8 Steps For Measuring The Cost
Even before the current economic crisis, evidence indicated that close to 70 million American workers... -
TriZetto Survey: Use of health
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - A growing number of health plans believe that the transition... -
Mass Health Course at: As Obama
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NAIC Members: Prescription For
Lost in the din of this summers health care debates is one important fact: there is a strong consensus...
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