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Health Care Conference Q&A: Dennis Lum, Kaiser Permanente

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Monday, November 12, 2012, 6:00 am Business Journal Staff Report Dennis Lum is vice president of channel strategy, sale operations and performance for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. His current areas of focus include broker strategy, broker development, and execution for health care reform and private exchanges, among other areas. Continue reading →

Significant relationship between mortality and telomere length discovered

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Public release date: 8-Nov-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Cathy Yarbrough press@ashg.org 858-243-1814 American Society of Human Genetics A team of researchers at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has identified a significant relationship between mortality and the length of telomeres, the stretches of DNA that protect the ends of chromosomes, according to a presentation on Nov. 8 at the American Society of Human Genetics 2012 meeting in San Francisco. While a reduction in telomere length is regarded as a biomarker of aging, scientists have not yet determined whether it plays a direct causal role in aging-related health changes and mortality or is just a sign of aging Continue reading →

Bipartisan report details health care cost drivers

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Published on September 21, 2012 at 11:03 AM The Bipartisan Policy Center issued a report yesterday detailing the reasons behind the nation’s spiralling health care costs. Kaiser Health News: Capsules: Bipartisan Report Focuses On Issues Driving Up Health Care Costs Among the reasons behind the nation’s seemingly inexorable rise in medical spending are the practice of rewarding doctors and hospitals for volume rather than efficiency of care and the tax break given to consumers for their job-based health insurance, according to a report out Thursday from the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank in Washington (Appleby, 9/20) Continue reading →

Romney health plans would affect seniors’ care, studies find

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It has been a central campaign promise from Mitt Romney: His Medicare overhaul plan would not touch benefits for anyone older than 55. That may not, however, be the case with the Republican presidential nominees other health-care proposals. A growing body of research suggests that his plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicaid funding would have a direct impact on the health care that seniors receive. Continue reading →

Kaiser Permanente Trains Nonprofit Health Care Providers to Provide Bilingual Services

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OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — To help reduce health care disparities and increase language access in health care, Kaiser Permanente recently convened with 14 nonprofit health care organizations and community providers from across the country in Atlanta for its award-winning Qualified Bilingual Staff training. The five-day, 40-hour facilitator training, which was offered at no charge to participating organizations, provides bilingual employees specialized education to maximize their diverse linguistic skills with the goal of improving the overall patient care experience. Continue reading →

Obama’s health-care law: The fitness and wellness provisions you may have missed

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Perhaps youve had a mammogram recently, or taken a child for an immunization or consulted with a specialist about a weight problem. Since late 2010, those visits to health care providers have carried an additional benefit: Theyre free. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law 28 months ago and upheld in June by the Supreme Court, its illegal for insurers to charge consumers a co-payment for a long list of health care services designed to prevent disease. Continue reading →

6 reasons health care costs keep going up

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There are many reasons health costs keep going up. Bigger ticket items in hospital care and doctor visits are among the reasons why. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Health care reform will help millions more Americans get insurance Continue reading →

Health care options for young, healthy and broke

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WASHINGTON (AP) They’re young, healthy and flat broke and now the government says they have to buy thousands of dollars’ worth of medical insurance. What should tapped-out twentysomethings do? Well, some may just do nothing. Continue reading →

Health care a top issue for businesses in New Hampshire

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Health care tops the concerns of New Hampshire businesses and influences whether some businesses locate here, according a state business group. More than three of five businesses surveyed last October cited health care as a top concern, the highest of any issue, according to David Juvet, senior vice president of the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire. Group President Jim Roche said health care costs are becoming an increasingly important factor in business relocation and expansion in New Hampshire Continue reading →

Sports Medicine Skills Come Into Play at Pasadena Marathon

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PASADENA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Just as athletes are training for the upcoming May 20, 2012 Kaiser Permanente Pasadena Marathon so, too, are the physicians and health professionals who are responsible for providing medical care for the events walkers, runners and cyclists. Kaiser Permanente takes these events very seriously, says Thad Woodward, MD, a Family Practice and Sports Medicine physician at the Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center, who has supervised medical response for the Pasadena Marathon for the past four years. We try to bring the same level of care for our athletes in the field as we do for our patients in the emergency room. Continue reading →