Feds Draft Basic Benefits Package Under Health Care Law – FOX News
WASHINGTON – The federal government is taking on a crucial new role in the nation’s health care, designing a basic benefits package for millions of privately insured Americans. A framework for the Obama administration was released Thursday
BAPTIST HEALTH Medical Center-Little Rock Offers State-of-the-Art Therapy Allowing a 79-Year-Old Football Coach to Return to the Field – msnbc.com
LITTLE ROCK, AR — BAPTIST HEALTH Medical Center-Little Rock (BHMC-LR) is among select cardiac centers in the nation to offer the revolutionary mechanical circulatory support (MCS) therapy called Thoratec® HeartMate II® Left Ventricular
Fraud investigation at Rick Scott’s HCA led to the era of health care compliance – Palm Beach Post (blog)
Twenty years ago, the job title “health care compliance officer” was rare and seldom seen. Thank Gov. Rick Scott’s former company, HCA, for helping change that. The huge fraud investigation into physician kickbacks and overbilling at HCA
Health care ‘mustn’t be market-led’ – The Guardian
The Archbishop of York has warned of the dangers of introducing a more commercial culture into the health service, saying “you cannot compare an NHS hospital to a supermarket”. Dr John Sentamu spoke out following recent surgery to remove his
Advisers Recommend Less Generous, More Affordiable Health Plans – Bloomberg
Health plans sold to the uninsured shouldn’t cover more benefits than the typical program offered by small business when provisions of the health-care law take effect, advisers said in a report for the Obama administration. The U.S. Institute
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Launches Claims Adjudication Solution Built on Oracle Health Insurance Claims Application – Yahoo Finance
“With this project, we expect to achieve three goals,” said Eric Schultz, President and Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. “One is to respond to the needs of the marketplace by keeping health care as affordable as possible. Secondly
U.S. advisers: keep health benefits affordable – msnbc.com
An advisory group urged U.S. officials to formulate a set of essential health benefits under President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul that is in line with cost of insurance in a typical small employer plan. The Institute of Medicine report
New site lets consumers monitor health insurance rate hikes – USA Today
WASHINGTON – Beginning Thursday, consumers across the country can click their state on a federal Web page to see if a health insurer has raised its rates, as well as the company’s reason for doing so. That information was mostly unavailable
