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18 Mar 2022, 9:39 am by Simmons Hanly Conroy
Louis County will use the funds to scale up substance abuse treatment programs and mental health resources for patients who lack sufficient medical insurance. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 3:05 pm by Robert McKennon
Cal., 2009) ("an interest in the life or health of a person insured must exist when the insurance takes effect, but need not exist thereafter or when the loss occurs. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 5:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans and insurers and their service providers should heed as a warning of the potential perils they could face for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security and Breach Notification Rules the just-announced $2.15 million plus civil monetary penalty that Jackson Health System (JHS) paid the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR). [read post]
1 Jan 2010, 5:05 pm by Karen Olson
In Medical malpractice liability reform-no easy task experts at National Medical Consultants continue from January 1st blog: Alternatively, those who oppose modifying the collateral source rule assert that plaintiffs do not receive double recovery if they are paid up front by another source because many insurance companies, especially public payers, require that the plaintiff essentially pay back any money that is subsequently recovered in a medical malpractice case. (8)… [read post]
2 Jan 2010, 7:10 am by Karen Olson
For example, a number of states are encouraging health care providers to apologize to the patient for the medical error by prohibiting such action from being considered as an admission of guilt in future legal actions. (15) Furthermore, states are increasingly searching for new ways to address this issue as a means not only to reduce costs but also to promote patient safety, ameliorate the potentially litigious nature of the provider-patient relationship, encourage the consistent use of… [read post]
3 Apr 2011, 11:51 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
One sees that patent rights on the composition had long expired and that an off-label use was involved.Various medical researchers suspected that 17P treatment could be used to prevent preterm labor, and so in 2003 the National Institutes of Health — which, as a reminder, is a government entity funded by taxpayers — financed a study into using 17P for that purpose. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 3:44 am
Medical innovation will expedite the realization of the United Nations’ goal of health for all with patients world-wide, enabling the receipt of the care they need without undue financial hardship. [read post]
It also announced that it will publish new superannuation data, a report on the national claims and policies database, statistics on general insurance claims, and data from the Private Health Insurance Coverage Survey. [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 10:00 pm by Sherica Celine
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a new, final version of their guidance for regulated healthcare entities to follow to improve cybersecurity and compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) Security Rule. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 10:43 am
UnitedHealth was accused of being one of the worst health insurers in terms of mishandling claims. [read post]
16 Jun 2017, 5:19 am by The Law Offices of Richard Ansara, P.A.
  This is true of most types of insurance, including health insurance for patients and medical malpractice insurance for hospital and doctors. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 5:17 pm by Colin O'Keefe
Maximize Subrogation Potential With Early An Response - Los Angeles attorney David Denton of Cozen O'Connor on the firm's Subrogation & Recovery Law Blog Is Termite Damage Covered Under Your Homeowners or Property Insurance - Orlando lawyer Mark Nation of The Nation Law Firm on their Florida Insurance Law Blog University of Chicago researcher finds whistleblowers are best detectors of fraud - Richard Renner of the… [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 9:13 am
The National Coalition on Healthcare reports that health insurance premiums for small companies increase 12% each year, on average, while inflation has been an average of 2.5% annually. [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 1:09 am
The question is, should insurance companies be regulated to address the problems that challenge health care in the US, and I believe they should. [read post]
12 Sep 2021, 7:01 am by Danielle Gilbert
Attacks on hospital systems and local governments are as devastating as they are common: Software company Emsisoft reported that 2,354 local governments, health care facilities and schools in the United States were hit with ransomware in 2020—a figure almost certainly dramatically underreported. [read post]
12 Sep 2007, 6:21 pm
" And that, in turn, called to mind a recent campaign in American workplaces--to "penaliz[e] workers who have high health risks such as obesity and high blood pressure or cholesterol as insurance costs climb. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 10:20 pm
In particular, they go a long way toward explaining (a) why it is that most states’ insurance markets are dominated by one or two health insurers, (b) why, relatedly, it is that the US’s peer nations in the OECD have long since treated health insurance (if not health care itself) as a social insurance problem on a par with retirement and unemployment insurance (if not public utilities), and (c) why, again… [read post]