Expenditures for the uninsured in Maryland totaled $1.47 billion in FY2002, according to an analysis conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The sum equates to $2,371 per individual without health insurance - paid for by state and federal funds, private insurance companies, physicians, charities and the uninsured themselves. The results of the study are published in the February 2007 edition of the Journal ...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Michel Kazatchkine -- France's global ambassador for HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases who on Thursday was selected to be the new executive director of the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria -- has announced that he will aim to improve the organization's partnerships with United Nations organizations and donors, the ...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
An employee health plan offered by supermarket chain Safeway that focuses on preventive care reduced company health care costs by 11% for nonuni...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Saturday officially announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination during a speech in Illinois, the Washington Post reports. Obama presented an ...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Increasing numbers of hospice programs and private insurance companies are allowing patients to receive medical treatments while participating in hospice care, the New York Times...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Maryland House leaders on Wednesday proposed a $1-per-pack cigarette tax increase to extend health insurance coverage to at least 250,000 uninsured state residents, the Washington Post reports. ...Monday, 12-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
The Dallas Morning News on Thursday examined how "[a]fter a decade of relative silence, politicians are again br...Monday, 12-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Health insurers increasingly are rating providers based on quality and cost-effectiveness, but some physicians say that the rating systems rely too heavily on patient claims data and that insurers give favorable ratings to doctors who charge the least amount of money, the AP/Washington Examiner reports. Insurer...Monday, 12-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee likely will pass legislation that would require health insurance companies to cover mental illnesses at the same level as they cover physical illnesses, committee Chair Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) said, ...Wednesday, 7-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Alissa Fox, vice president of legislative and regulatory policy for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, on Friday said that additional reductions in reimbursements to private Medicare Advantage plans "would be a disaster" for the program, ...Wednesday, 7-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]