Public release date: 20-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Rebecca Fairbairn rebecca.fairbairn@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22433 BioMed Central BioMed Central, the open access publisher, is pleased to announce that Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AOEM), the official academic journal of The Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (KSOEM), has moved to BioMed Central’s open access publishing platform. KSOEM was formed in 1988, when the people of Korea began to have concerns regarding health and safety at work Continue reading
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Surging Health Care Index Sets Another Record
The S&P 500 Health Care Sector rose to a record high again Tuesday, led by managed care companies such as Humana and UnitedHealth Group. It was the sixth-consecutive day that the index set a record. In July, it broke its all-time high set in December 2000 Continue reading
Gov. Jay Nixon's Medicaid proposal would mean millions for health care industry
JEFFERSON CITY Missouri health care providers stand to see a significant boost in payments for treating Medicaid patients under Gov. Jay Nixons proposal to expand the health care program for the poor. The budget proposal Nixon released last week would close a long-standing gap between what Medicaid pays for health care and what providers get on the private market, but it would also add millions to the federal governments tab for the expansion Continue reading
Liberty Announces Adjustment to 3.125% Senior Exchangeable Debentures Due 2023
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Liberty Interactive LLC (Liberty), a subsidiary of Liberty Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ: LINTA/LINTB and LVNTA/LVNTB ) announced a cash distribution to the holders of its 3.125% Senior Exchangeable Debentures due in 2023 (the Debentures). This distribution is the result of AOL, Inc.s special dividend of $5.15 per share paid on December 14, 2012. Continue reading
Wal-Mart to join Arkansas health care program
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc Continue reading
IDA approves PILOT at Horton campus for medical school site
No taxes till 2015 Lawyers for Tony Danza’s development group are reviewing the payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement approved by the City of Middletown. Danza talks at a conference in 2009 about plans for a medical school at the Horton site.TOM BUSHEY/Times Herald-Record Published: 2:00 AM – 01/04/13 Last updated: 7:53 AM – 01/04/13 MIDDLETOWN Middletown’s Industrial Development Agency has approved a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for the planned medical college at the former Horton Hospital complex. Continue reading
Sunrise Announces Special Cash Dividend in Connection with Proposed Merger with Health Care REIT
MCLEAN, Va., Dec. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Sunrise Senior Living (SRZ) announced today that in connection with the proposed merger with Health Care REIT, Inc. (HCN) and the related proposed sale of its management business to affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Continue reading
Medicare Alabama – Video
Medicare Alabama Alabama Medicare is health insurance program which covers mostly your health care costs run by Federal government. Original Medicare compensates the payment for visit to any hospital, clinic or health care provider accepting Medicare services. Continue reading
New Report: Health Care Payment Reform Could Save U.S. $200 Billion-$600 Billion over Coming Decade, but …
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Americans could realize net savings in health care costs of around $200 billion to $600 billion cumulatively over the next 10 years if concerted action is taken to reform care provider payment incentives, including moving away from the traditional fee-for-service model, according to a new working paper by UnitedHealth Groups (UNH) Center for Health Reform & Modernization. The working paper, Farewell to Fee-for-Service? A Real World Strategy for Health Care Payment Reform, is being launched at todays Forbes Healthcare in the USA Forum in New York. Continue reading
BG Medicine Announces Decision by American Medical Association and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on …
WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. Continue reading
60% TStorms
Governor Mike Beebe’s Weekly Column and Radio Address: Bold Steps for Better Patient Care In the past week, a new federal pilot program, called the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, was introduced in eight states, including Arkansas. Under this program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will pay incentives to 66 primary-care medical practices in Arkansas to support enhanced, coordinated services. Continue reading
Opinion: Another look at Obamacare
Allison Miller was among the nurses and doctors giving free care in July in the Los Angeles area. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Editor’s note: Aaron E. Continue reading
Liberty Interactive Announces Semi-Annual Payment on 3.5% Senior Exchangeable Debentures Due 2031 and Changes to Date …
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Liberty Interactive LLC (“Liberty”), a subsidiary of Liberty Interactive Corporation (Nasdaq: LINTA, LINTB), announced a semi-annual payment to the holders of its 3.5% Senior Exchangeable Debentures due in 2031 (the “Debentures”). The amount of the payment is $17.50 per $1,000 of original principal amount of the Debentures. History of Changes to Reference Securities (on or about) Underlying Debenture Motorola spins-off Freescale Semiconductor to shareholders Freescale (Class B) 4.0654 FSL.B Freescale taken private at $40 per share Motorola Inc. Continue reading
B/E Aerospace Announces Closing of Senior Notes Offering
WELLINGTON, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– B/E Aerospace (BEAV) (the Company), announced today the successful closing of its public offering of $800.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.25% senior notes due 2022, priced to yield 4.934%. The size of the offering was increased from the previously announced $675.0 million to $800.0 million. The senior notes were issued at an offering price of 102.00%, plus accrued and unpaid interest from March 13, 2012 Continue reading
Health care law survives in Supreme Court (9th update)
WASHINGTON – In a momentous ruling touching virtually every American, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul Thursday with the unlikely help of conservative Chief Justice John Roberts. But the decision also gave Republicans unexpected ammunition to energize supporters in the battle for the White House and to fight “Obamacare” as a new tax on people who don’t obtain health insurance. Roberts’ vote, along with those of the court’s four liberal justices, preserved the largest expansion of the nation’s social safety net in more than 45 years, including the hotly debated core requirement that nearly everyone have health insurance or pay a penalty Continue reading
NC House approves Eugenics compensation
Published 11:09am Friday, June 8, 2012 RALEIGH A bill to compensate victims of the states former Eugenics Board program was passed Tuesday (June 5) by House members and now advances to the Senate. The House version of the proposed legislation includes Gov. Continue reading
Health Professionals Will Respond to Incentives, If We Only Let Them
Local exchanges and markets will be better for health care costs than Washington price-fixing. Jim Bourg/Reuters It is nobody’s fault, but our health finance system has long been a disaster. Since World War II it has slowly evolved, with all the best intentions, into not one but at least three wholly separate entities–each with different infrastructures and different sets of perverse incentives for hospitals, doctors, and other providers. Continue reading
Fitch Affirms Virgin Islands WAPA Sr Lien Bonds at 'BB' & Sub Lien Bonds at 'BB-'; Outlook Negative
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ratings on the following Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) bonds and removed the bonds from Rating Watch Negative: –$156.47 million senior lien bonds at ‘BB’; –$109.34 million subordinate lien bonds at ‘BB-’. The resolution of the Rating Watch primarily reflects the authority’s improved near-term liquidity, following the sale of $69.14 million electric system bonds in April, with a portion of the proceeds used to repay working capital lines of credit and reduce the amount of an outstanding term loan. Fitch previously assigned the authority’s $17.39 million electric system revenue refunding bonds series 2012A (tax-exempt) a rating of ‘BB’ and the $51.75 million electric system subordinated revenue bonds series 2012B (federally taxable) and 2012C (federally taxable) a rating of ‘BB-’ Continue reading