Military veterans can discuss their medical care in a town hall meeting Tuesday hosted by the American Legion. The meeting will focus on the overall quality of health care that veterans receive at the Memphis Veterans Medical Center. Men and women who receive health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs are invited to share their experiences at the open forum Continue reading
Category Archives: Health Care
Tampa area hospitals look to suburbs for growth
By MARY SHEDDEN | The Tampa Tribune Published: May 13, 2012 Updated: May 13, 2012 – 12:00 AM The real battleground in Tampa area health care lies far from the city’s limits. During the next three years, eastern and southern Hillsborough County residents will witness the arrival of a new hospital and several hospital-owned medical practices, such as a Tampa General Hospital office opened this month in Brandon Continue reading
Slippery-Slope Logic vs. Health Care Law – Economic View
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Health Net Announces Appearance at Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2012 Health Care Conference
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Health Net, Inc. (NYSE:HNT – News) today announced that members of its management team are scheduled to present at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2012 Health Care Conference on May 15, 2012, at approximately 11:40a.m. Continue reading
Memphis residents may foot bill for rise in city health care costs
MEMPHIS, TN – (WMC-TV) – Memphis city employees can expect a sharp rise in health care costs next year. At the same time, citizens will foot the bill for millions of dollars that were not collected from those city employees this year Continue reading
Asheville area seniors see long-term health care rates skyrocket
Recent Requests Since Jan. 1, six companies have presented rate increases that the N.C. Continue reading
Advocate Health Care partners with Merge Healthcare to provide physicians instant access to cardiac imaging and …
Merge Healthcare, a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, has announced that Advocate Health Care, one of the nation’s top health care systems, will implement Merge’s complete cardiology solution suite to capture, manage and display cardiac images, and hemodynamics and ECG data across its enterprise of more than 250 care sites, including 10 acute-care hospitals … Continue reading
Concerns About Health Care Disclosure Act
By Phil Gregory, WBGO News Trenton. Continue reading
BP settlement includes money for health care
Published: Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 12:47 a.m. Health care in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes could be improved with $50 million in grant money included in the BP oil spill settlement. Continue reading
Health care law's prevention money called 'slush fund'
After weeks of debate over whether the Prevention and Public Health Fund, created by President Obamas health care law, affects womens health, Republicans are airing additional complaints about the pool of money and how states and communities have used the fund to support a string of questionable initiatives. The future of the fund, which got $1 billion this year and is slated to get $1.25 billion in 2013, has been a hot topic on Capitol Hill, where congressional Republicans want to kill it and use the money to pay for an extension of student-loan interest-rate subsidies, while Democrats have vowed to defend it as a key part of Mr. Continue reading
State House targets health care costs
SPRINGFIELD State retirees may have to begin paying a portion of their health insurance premi-ums under a plan approved by the Illinois House Wednesday. The proposal, which is one piece of Gov. Pat Quinns controversial overhaul of state employee benefits, affects as many as 114,000 former state workers, their dependents and survivors. Continue reading
Strategies for Patient- and Family-Centered Business Models
BETHESDA, Md., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Now is an important time to be involved in improving health care. Demanding times require inspired leadership, innovative solutions, and enduring partnerships to bring about change. With ever-increasing economic challenges and the ongoing threat of budget cuts facing health care organizations, now is the time to invest in cost-saving, patient- and family-centered strategies that will produce measurable outcomes for your hospital, health system, or organization Continue reading
Health-care costs per retired couple: $240,000
Health-care bills were expected to rise more slowly after the passage of Obama’s health-care program, according to Fidelity’s projection last year. Now, costs are rising again. Continue reading
New Baltimore woman indicted on fraud charge can't leave country
By Mitch Hotts For The Voice Checarol Robinson, 41, of New Baltimore, had hoped the court would waive a condition of her bond, which restricts her travel to southeast Michigan until the criminal case is resolved. Isnt one of the conditions of the bond that you will not leave the country? Im not going to interfere with this, said U.S Continue reading
YPSILANTI: Health care fraud scam took in more than $58 million in false Medicare billings; one resident named in …
By Mitch Hotts of Journal Register News Service Twenty-two people in southeastern Michigan, including one Ypsilanti resident,were charged Wednesday in a health care fraud scam that took in more than $58 million in false Medicare billings from foster homes and home health care services, according to federal authorities and unsealed court documents. The defendantsinclude owners and operators of companies, social workers, office employees and patient recruiters who are accused of submitting phony claims for services that were never rendered or not needed, officials said at a news conference in Detroit. Forty-five-year-old Ypsilanti resident Badar Ahmadani was one of those named in the indictment Continue reading
Access to health care in U.S. worsens, study finds
WASHINGTON Having trouble finding a doctor? You’re not alone. Tens of millions of adults under age 65 both those with insurance and those without saw their access to health care worsen dramatically over the past decade, according to a study abstract released Monday. Continue reading
Investing in health care stocks is still a good bet
Editor’s Note: Peter Ricchiuti teaches courses in finance and investments at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business. He blogs monthly about regional stocks for Forbes.com Continue reading
Transforming Health Care About Improving Patient Health Not Cutting Costs
OTTAWA, May 6, 2012 /CNW/ – Dr. John Haggie, President of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), today expressed his hope that the Ontario government would return to discussions with the province’s doctors and continue the work already begun to transform the health care system to make it patient centred. “Ontario’s doctors have put forward several ideas around improving efficiency and boosting quality of health care services to patients,” added Dr Continue reading
Henry Schein To Present At The Deutsche Bank 37th Annual Health Care Conference
MELVILLE, N.Y., May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Henry Schein, Inc., (HSIC), the largest provider of health care products and services to office-based dental, medical and animal health practitioners, announced today that Steven Paladino, Henry Schein’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Deutsche Bank 37th Annual Health Care conference on May 9, 2012. The conference is being held at the InterContinental Boston Continue reading
Health research: Cure for economy?
By Ben Sutherly The Columbus Dispatch Monday May 7, 2012 5:23 AM Dr. Michael Grever, chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Ohio State University, gives a tour of the cancer research laboratories on the eighth floor of the Biomedical Research Tower at OSU. Ohios health-care sector increasingly sees medical research as a way to help heal not only patients but the states economy Continue reading