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24 Oct 2013, 4:48 am by Jon Gelman
” “Kaiser has failed to provide the care needed to heal my injuries,” Mazzucca told a news conference outside Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Diego. [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 3:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A week before the September 23, 2013 deadline for all health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses (Covered Entities) and their business associates to have updated their business associate agreements to comply with the Final Omnibus HIPAA Rule, the Department of Health & Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today (September 16, 2013) released Model Notices of Privacy Practices (Notices)… [read post]
31 Aug 2013, 10:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Starting in 2014, the Individual Shared Responsibility mandate of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA) dictates that each individual American either have minimum essential coverage for each month, qualify for an exemption, or make a payment when filing his or her federal income tax return. [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 8:13 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
U.S. employers Federal government contractors and subcontractors will be required to set a hiring goal of having 7 percent of their workforces be people with disabilities and hiring goals for veterans, among other requirements when the Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) moves forward in upcoming weeks to finalize proposed changes to OFCCP regulations originally proposed on December 9. [read post]
21 Aug 2013, 6:52 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The FLSA also specifically covers the following entities: hospitals; institutions primarily engaged in the care of the sick, the aged, mentally ill, or disabled who reside on the premises; schools for children who are mentally or physically disabled or gifted; preschools, elementary and secondary schools, and institutions of higher education; and federal, state and local government agencies. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 7:21 pm by Jon Gelman
Johnson Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center work with The Children’s Treehouse Foundation to offer emotional and practical support for families dealing with the disease.Martha Aschenbrenner, a hospice counselor at MD Anderson, says that a very natural response to a cancer diagnosis is to try to protect children by hiding the facts or keeping them vague. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 11:31 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Businesses and workers concerned that the definition of “full-time” employment as 30 hours per week in the “pay-or-play” penalties of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to by the public  as “Obamacare”) is hurting American workers may want to share their input on recently introduced legislation that would raise the number of hours an employee must work to qualify as “full-time”  for purposes of the pay-or-pay… [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 11:51 am
At the same time, with more than 1,000 nursing facilities in the state of California according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, members of the LGBT community and other nursing home residents will continue to face the threat of nursing home abuse and neglect. [read post]
26 May 2013, 2:26 pm
Look before you leap is a much wiser approach to mobile medical screenings, as shown earlier this month in a story by Kaiser Health News and the Washington Post. [read post]
26 May 2013, 1:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The policy provides benefits only for hospital stays at a fixed percentage of hospital expenses up to a maximum of $100 a day. [read post]
5 Feb 2013, 5:00 am by Kimberly A. Kralowec
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., 181 Cal.App.4th 471 (2010) (discussed here), and Desert Healthcare Dist. v. [read post]
16 Nov 2012, 8:22 am by Jeff Marshall
More Information:For an easy to use guide on the health reform changes taking effect in 2013 and 2014 see the “Implementation Timeline” prepared by the Kaiser Family Foundation which is available here. [read post]
18 Oct 2012, 2:57 am by Robert Kraft
Kaiser Family Foundation, makes an astute observation that Americans are their own worst enemy when it comes to health care costs. [read post]
16 Oct 2012, 1:21 am by David S. Dessen, Esq.
This expansion was inevitable and not surprising in light of the statistics reported by the Association of American Medical Colleges in its 2011 State Physician Workforce Data Book that there were 799,509 active physicians in the United States in 2010 and Figure 2.13 in The Kaiser Family Foundation Medicare Chartbook, Fourth Edition, 2010, which indicates that 96% of physicians and other practitioners participate in Medicare Part B. [read post]
16 Oct 2012, 1:21 am by David S. Dessen, Esq.
This expansion was inevitable and not surprising in light of the statistics reported by the Association of American Medical Colleges in its 2011 State Physician Workforce Data Book that there were 799,509 active physicians in the United States in 2010 and Figure 2.13 in The Kaiser Family Foundation Medicare Chartbook, Fourth Edition, 2010, which indicates that 96% of physicians and other practitioners participate in Medicare Part B. [read post]
16 Oct 2012, 1:21 am by David S. Dessen, Esq.
This expansion was inevitable and not surprising in light of the statistics reported by the Association of American Medical Colleges in its 2011 State Physician Workforce Data Book that there were 799,509 active physicians in the United States in 2010 and Figure 2.13 in The Kaiser Family Foundation Medicare Chartbook, Fourth Edition, 2010, which indicates that 96% of physicians and other practitioners participate in Medicare Part B. [read post]
16 Oct 2012, 1:21 am by David S. Dessen, Esq.
This expansion was inevitable and not surprising in light of the statistics reported by the Association of American Medical Colleges in its 2011 State Physician Workforce Data Book that there were 799,509 active physicians in the United States in 2010 and Figure 2.13 in The Kaiser Family Foundation Medicare Chartbook, Fourth Edition, 2010, which indicates that 96% of physicians and other practitioners participate in Medicare Part B. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 4:42 am by Jon L. Gelman
“This year’s survey suggest that working families at the low end of the wage scale face significant out of pocket costs for coverage,” said study lead author Gary Claxton, a Kaiser Vice President and director of the Foundation’s Health Care Marketplace Project. [read post]