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Insurers' Pricing Practices Targeted By Senate Health Committee

Senate health committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, asked four of the nations largest health insurers - Aetna, Humana, Wellpoint and UnitedHealth - to explain their pricing policies after small-business owners testified Tuesday that insuran...

Tax Credit for 'Black Liquor' Targeted in House Health Bill

House Democratic tax writers switched up a key offset in the manager's amendment to the health care overhaul bill, including new language that would prevent paper producers from claiming a tax credit for the production of black liquor, a wo...

How To Pay For Employees' Health Care?; Proposals To Give Tax Credits Backed By Smaller Non-profits

The health care reform proposals making their way through Congress stand to have effects on non-profits that reach beyond those organizations directly involved in providing health care. One top concern for smaller non-profits is figuring ou...

Adding to debt burden with more public health care is 'insanity'

A few weeks ago, Dick Donnelly wrote about a difficult personal situation (the death of his wife) that was eased somewhat by the $800,000 medical bills being taken care of by his two government plans, Medicare and Tricare (letter, Sept. 27,...

EDITORIAL: Small business, big bills

Because they lack the bargaining power of a large company, small businesses have a tough time offering employee health insurance. Yet under the state's health reform law, many small operations -- those with 11 or more full-time equivalents -...

Rockefeller says insurers spending on selves: Rockefeller says health care industry spends less on medical care than reported

Sen. Jay Rockefeller this week hurled another in a series of accusations at the nation's health insurance companies. In a 16-page letter to the head of the CIGNA, one of the nation's largest health insurance providers, Rockefeller described...

South Jersey Healthcare Standardizes on Mimosa archiving solution for eDiscovery unified content search and data protection

Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email archiving, file archiving, and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced that South Jersey Healthcare (SJH), has selected the Mimosa NearPoint(TM) archiving solution for data protect...

Ping An Health Eyeing High-end Medical Insurance

Ping An Health Insurance Company of China, Ltd. currently focuses on high-end medical insurance only, revealed an insider. Instead of selling related products by itself, the health insurance unit of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China...

Would Health Reform Bill Help Florida?

Florida lawmakers have been wary of federal health reform in part because ituses Medicaid to covermany of the uninsured. They say the program is already busting the budget. But an expert on Medicaid policy says the expansion would be good f...

Health care tax could hit home: Proposal for high-cost plans may adversely affect region

Missing from the sweeping health care reform bill unveiled last week by House Democrats was the Senate Finance Committee's proposal to tax high-cost insurance plans. That proposal is widely seen as a small step toward ending one of the ineq...

NA standing committee reflects public concerns over delay in fulfilment of life policies by State Life

National Assemblys Standing Committee on Commerce at a meeting on Wednesday chaired by Engineer Khurram Dastagir Khan reflected public concerns over delays in fulfilment of Life Policies by State Life. The committee recommended State Life sh...

Tri-Town Health on a mission

Lee, Lenox and Stockbridge want to be known for healthy living, as well as culture and beauty. The Tri-Town Health Department has begun a two-year study to improve the wellness of residents in those three communities. The project is being fu...

HEALTH CARE REFORM: Insurers issue warnings: Critics see higher premiums if House bill passes

The House dubbed its new health insurance reform bill the Affordable Health Care for America Act. For insurance executives, though, calling the 1,990-page, $1 trillion act affordable is, well, ironic. Sort of like nicknaming a 400-pound Tea...

EDITORIAL:Public option:cf,gtm Sen.Bill Nelson should play key role in healthcare reform

The public option in the proposed overhaul of the nation's healthcare system was considered a poison pill that would kill serious reform. Now a hybrid proposal has surfaced that merits attention. There's good reason to support it -- no sign...

BRIEF:Lack of insurance a health hazardous

Being uninsured can be disastrous for your health, particularly for those with a chronic illness such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol, according to a Harvard study published in October. The study found that half of all uninsured p...

What if a Provider questions my insurance?

The doctors and hospitals included in the Aetna PPO are familiar with your insurance plan. However, you should always take your insurance ID card with you. Questions can be quickly answered by calling The Chickering Group customer service ce...

many House liberals look ready to accept a compromise health care bill

They may not love him, but many House liberals have looked ready to accept a bill compromise health care , putting the Democratic leadership on track to deliver on the president's call for Barack Obama for review. After claiming for months,...

Newest health care issue: long-term care: Voluntary insurance program suggested, but details are not clear, passage far from certain

Health insurance covers treatment for the spinal cord disorder that has confined Amy Hunovice to a wheelchair. But Hunovice, who has no use of her legs and limited use of her arms, has to pay a home health care worker $13 an hour herself fo...

EDITORIAL: Not well: Alarming holes in children's health safety net.

The kids are not all right. Quite the contrary. In North Carolina, our children are facing some big health problems. While there is some good news in the North Carolina Child Health Report Card, issued annually by the N.C. Institute of Medi...

Sudan's Al-Bashir inaugurates hospital in Blue Nile State

President of the Republic FM Umar Al-Bashir attended a festival in Damazin town marking the graduation of 2500 students at the Blue Nile University in different specializations. Addressing the ceremony, President Al-Bashir said that the Blu...

Medica Brings Out Mobile App for Comparing Health Care Costs

Medica said that it is the first health plan to launch a mobile application to help consumers compare cost information for a variety of medical procedures. The app, based on the Web site MainStreetMedica.com, is available at the iPhone App...

UnitedHealthcare Provides Free Access to National Comprehensive Cancer Network Compendium

UnitedHealthcare said that it is now offering in-network physicians and their staffs free access to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Drugs and Biologics Compendium. The NCCN Compendium, developed by 21 of the nation's cancer...

AmeriHealth New Jersey Extends Pact with Robert Wood Johnson's University Medical Group

AmeriHealth New Jersey has entered a two-year contract extension with University Medical Group, the Company announced. University Medical Group is the faculty practice group affiliated with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Bru...

HHS Secretary Sebelius Introduces New Report on Benefits of Health Insurance Reform for Women with Breast Cancer

As Americans mark breast cancer awareness month, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius released a new report, Health Insurance Reform and Breast Cancer: Making the Health Care System Work for Women. The report details how...

EDITORIAL: Don't Block That Bill, Joe: SEN. LIEBERMAN ? Connecticut senator should support an up-or-down vote on health reform bill

U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, a self-styled independent-minded Democrat who doesn't mind being the center of attention, created quite a stir Tuesday when he said he opposes creating a new government-run health insurance plan...

Public option finding favor: The option for government insurance is gaining steam -- even among the nation's doctors.

In two widely different forums Wednesday, Florida doctors and nurses agreed that healthcare reform is desperately needed -- and they're not opposed to a public option as part of the package. That was the sentiment expressed at a midday meet...

Insurer's ties to Broward School Board member Stephanie Kraft raise concerns

During the 2006 race for Coral Springs City Commission, Vista Healthplan and its affiliates donated the maximum allowed by law to the campaign of a political novice who had recently lost his job as Tamarac city attorney. Although Mitch Kraf...

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