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19 Mar 2009, 5:25 am
  Even if they were growing, they are no substitute for primary care.Looking at a new model of physician practice -- available 24/7, untethered to most of the traditional trappings of a physician practice (including that old-fashioned trope of accepting insurance payments), Ted Eytan, MD is Now Reading: Take Two Aspirin And Tweet Me In The Morning: How Twitter, Facebook, And Other Social Media Are Reshaping Health Care.GrrlScientist shares her overseas medicine story,… [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 3:55 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
An independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and one of the nation’s largest health benefits companies, Anthem provides medical care coverage to one in eight Americans through its affiliated health plans. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 8:37 am by Caitlin Padula
The health reform law requires that all of these free preventive health services are provided by insurance companies for anybody with a new or a so-called “non-grandfathered” insurance plan. [read post]
27 Apr 2017, 1:30 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
McKinney School of Law, Health Privacy Fragmentation Law, Medicine & Bioethics Session 1D – Room 345Thinking Differently About Surgical Law and EthicsModerator: Sylvia Caley, Georgia State University College of Law, “Extraordinary Measures: Special Considerations for the Unbefriended Patient”Kelly Dineen, Saint Louis University School of Law, Amending the Sunshine Act to Reflect Device Company Gifts to SurgeonsSamantha Johnson, Grady Health System,… [read post]
5 Nov 2011, 2:03 pm by Robert Elliott, J.D.
Winners of NAOSH (North American Occupational Safety and Health) Week and Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE) Achievement Recognition awards were acknowledged recently at the 2011 Safety Forum and Awards ceremony in Langley, according to a report from WorkSafe BC. [read post]
9 May 2019, 8:06 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
In addition to the Rule, HHS continues to review a number of other rules and proposals it hopes to further advance the American Patients First blueprint initiative to improve drug price transparency and inform consumer decision making by fixing opaque systems, changing incentives that drive costs or other undesirable behaviors by pharmaceutical companies, prescription benefit management (“PBM”) companies, health insurers and plans, providers… [read post]
18 Dec 2019, 10:03 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
District Court for the Southern District of New York today (December 17, 2019) against the nation’s largest long term care pharmacy provider, Omnicare, and its parent, CVS Healthcare Corporation may signal the advisability for insurers, fiduciaries, administrators and sponsors of insured and self-insured health and other benefit plans providing pharmacy benefits to tighten claims and audit past claims payments for prescription drug claims submitted by… [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 7:03 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer presently serves as Executive Director of Project COPE, the Coalition on Patient Empowerment and the Coalition for Responsible Healthcare Policy; Vice President of the North Texas Healthcare Compliance Professionals Association; Immediate Past Chair of the American Bar Association RPTE Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Committee and its representative to the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits and Vice Chair of its Welfare Benefits Committee; Past Chair of the… [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 9:45 pm by Law Lady
"The exercise of general jurisdiction over petitioners, simply because their products reached North Carolina through the stream of commerce, violates the due-process clause," the companies say. [read post]
1 Jul 2019, 11:27 am by opedit
  Health insurance companies are now forbidden from placing life-time limits or annual limits on health care coverage. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 6:04 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A just-announced $3.2 million Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) paid by Children’s Medical Center of Dallas (Children’s)  for failing to adequately secure electronic protected health information (ePHI) and correct other HIPAA compliance deficiencies teaches many key lessons for employer and other health plans and insurers, healthcare clearinghouses, healthcare providers and… [read post]
15 Sep 2021, 9:52 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also serves in leadership of a broad range of professional and civic organizations and provides insights and thought leadership through her extensive publications, public speaking and volunteer service with a diverse range of organizations including as Chair of the American Bar Association (“ABA”) Intellectual Property Section Law Practice Management Committee, Vice Chair of the International Section Life Sciences and Health Committee, Past ABA RPTE… [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 1:49 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
Supporters of the health care law point out, however, that without the minimum coverage provision, the landmark health care reform law would be ineffective, allowing insurance companies to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, thereby undercutting a main impetus of the law, which is to make sure that the vast majority of Americans are able to carry health care insurance. [read post]
19 Nov 2019, 10:00 pm by r.m@thomsonreuters.com
Honda Long Term Disability Plan, 642 F.3d 666, 669 (9th Cir. 2011), found that Life Insurance Company of North America unreasonably denied the plaintiff’s claim for disability benefits. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 6:36 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Vice President of the North Texas Health Care Compliance Professionals Association, Past Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Section and the former Board Compliance Chair of the National Kidney Foundation of North Texas, Ms. [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 9:58 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A specialized medical-records provider that contracts with healthcare suppliers nationwide to maintain, retrieve, and produce individuals’ PHI, Cox handles tens of millions of requests for records containing PHI annually including demands by healthcare providers for treatment purposes, patients asking for their own PHI, and third parties, such as life insurance companies and law firms, seeking a patient’s PHI for commercial or legal reasons. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 10:45 am
“Imagine that Facebook didn’t get started for want of health insurance. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 9:20 am by William K. Berenson
But 2,064 patients have heard of this new procedure and insurance companies agreed to pay $1.1 million and health care providers agreed to write off more than $6 million in bills last year. [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 1:49 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, past Chair and current committee Co-Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) RPTE Section Employee Benefits Group, Vice Chair of the ABA Tort & Insurance Practice Section Employee Benefits Committee, former Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group, a former ABA… [read post]