Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Some states looking to reduce the number of uninsured residents have passed laws that allow young adults to stay on their parents' coverage longer, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. Nearly all states, when regulating insurance plans for small- and medium-sized companies, set a maximum age for coverage of dependent children -- ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Two new proposed rules that would give states unprecedented flexibility in designing their own Medicaid programs, including adjusting their benefit package to more closely align with beneficiary needs and requiring increased cost sharing by enrollees, were announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The proposed rules would implement ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
An alarming number of adults fail to recognize heart attack warning signs and symptoms that could, if heeded, save their lives, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study conducted in 14 states.
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report study, "Disparities in Awareness of Heart Attack Warning ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Proposals to address the "health crisis that we all share -- getting good, timely medical service and being able to afford it" -- require physicians and politicians to answer three "critical" questions: "Will you get past your partisanship to talk to one another, will you feel my pain and are ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Most states have made substantial progress in defining their privacy and security approaches for electronic health information exchange, according to a report released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), both part of the U.S. Department ...
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