Health Insurance Week

Life Sciences - Study results from C.D. Phillips et al provide new insights into life sciences

Long Term Care Pharmacy Alliance - Long Term Care Pharmacy Alliance Expands Membership; Members Now Serve Most of the Nation's Nursing Home Residents

LTC Financial Partners - As More Americans Live to 100, Long Term Care Insurance Leader Gives Health Assist

Managed Care - GDS / Denex Dental Selected by Kaiser Permanente Northwest

Managed Care - Reports summarize managed care research from L.G. Pawlson and co-authors

Managed Care - Study findings from C.A. Winston et al provide new insights into managed care

Marketing and Licensing Agreements - Bridges to Excellence Announces New Implementation Programs for Health Plans and Additions to Board of Directors

Marketing and Licensing Agreements - ITOCHU Corporation to Distribute Convergence CT's Clinical Data Warehouse in Japan

Marketing and Licensing Agreements - Sedgwick CMS and UnitedHealth Group to Develop Integrated Disability, Medical, Workers' Compensation and Leave Administration Services for Employers

MedAmerica - New Long-Term Care Insurer Offers Simplified Insurance Plans in Florida

Medical Systems - Studies from University of Ibadan in the area of medical systems described

Medicare and Medicaid - Aetna Introduces Medicare Advantage Plans in Maine

Medicare and Medicaid - Aetna Introduces Medicare Advantage Plans in Nevada

Medicare and Medicaid - Congressman Tom Reynolds Awarded for Protecting Medicare Choices

Medicare and Medicaid - Health Plan of Michigan Latest Company Relocating to Detroit; 111 Employees to Move Downtown

Medicare and Medicaid - Idaho Awards Unisys Seven-Year Medicaid Contract

Medicare and Medicaid - Increased Reimbursement to Drive Uterine Fibroid Embolization Procedures

Medicare and Medicaid - Kidney Patient Organizations, Kidney Community Come Out in Support of Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Extension

Medicare and Medicaid - Kidney Patients' Health Is Jeopardized by Proposed Medicare Changes

Medicare and Medicaid - Maryland Expands Medicaid to Reach Uninsured

Medicare and Medicaid - Medicare Advantage Competition Intensifies

Medicare and Medicaid - Medicare Drops Proposed OT Certification on Power Wheelchair Evaluations

Medicare and Medicaid - MedPAC Again Fails to Evaluate Overall Economic Conditions in Assessing SNF Funding Requirements

Medicare and Medicaid - NCOA Recognizes Kaiser Permanente for Its Enrollment of Members in Low-Income Subsidy

Medicare and Medicaid - Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island Selects TCS Healthcare Technologies to Provide Medical Management Software Solution

Medicare and Medicaid - New Jersey Hospital to Pay U.S. $7.5 Million to Resolve Allegations of Medicare Fraud

Medicare and Medicaid - NFIB Calls for House Leadership to Include Pharmacy Reimbursement Fix in Medicare Package

Medicare and Medicaid - One Thing Washington Can Agree On: Time for E-Prescribing in Medicare

Medicare and Medicaid - Research and Markets: What Makes MemberHealth One of the Leading Operators of National and State Prescription Benefit Administration Programs

Medicare and Medicaid - Research from C. Owens and colleagues provide new insights into medicare and medicaid

Medicare and Medicaid - Research from University of Washington yields new data on medicare and medicaid in children

Medicare and Medicaid - Study findings on medicare and medicaid are outlined in reports from B.K. Hollenbeck and colleagues

Medicare and Medicaid - VisionShare Celebrates Signing 2,000th Customer

Mental Health - Dr. Christine Cauffield Named Co-Chair of Florida Agency Devoted to Improving Mental Health Services for Seniors

Mental Health - New Study Finds That Some 55,000 Children Who Were Displaced Following Hurricane Katrina Face Long-Term Health, Mental and Educational Crises

Mental Health - Recent studies from USA Scientific add new data to mental health

Mental Health - Research from Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health has provided new information about mental health in adolescents

Mental Health - Researchers at University of California, Center for Mental Health Services Research publish new data on mental health

Mental Health - Studies from Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health yield new information about mental health in adolescents

Mental Health Therapy - Findings from G.M. Galeazzi and co-authors broaden understanding of mental health therapy

Molina Healthcare, Inc. - NCQA Once Again Accords Molina Healthcare of Washington Highest Accreditation Status

Montefiore Medical Center - Spencer Foreman, MD, Retires as Montefiore President

MPV - UNC Physicians & Associates Select MPV to Detect Payment Variances and Track Payor Compliance

National Association of Professional Employer - Taking the Temperature of Small Business: Owners Tell NAPEO They're Squeezed Between Soaring Health-Care Costs and the Awful Uncertainty of Going Uninsured

National Business Coalition on Health - National Business Coalition on Health Releases 2008 eValue8(TM) RFI

Neutropenia Therapy - New neutropenia therapy study findings have been reported by N.D. Baskaran and co-researchers

Occupational Health - U.S. HealthWorks Medical Group Announces the Acquisition of Inland Industrial Medical Group in Ontario, California

Perfusion - Nationwide Respiratory Signs Preferred Pulse Oximetry Agreement with Masimo

Psychiatry - Medsphere Completes EHR Deployment at Two West Virginia Hospitals Spanning Acute, Long-term, Behavioral Health & Clinic Settings

QuadraMed Corporation - The Department of Veteran Affairs Awards QuadraMed $21.8 Million Contract for HIM and Revenue Cycle Management Technology

Quantum Foundation - Quantum Foundation Makes a Half Million Dollars Available to Federally Qualified Health Centers

RAND Corporation - Rand study examines the effect of policy on entrepreneurship and small businesses

Research and Markets - 'Delivering Disease Management to Medically Underserved Populations' Report Will Help You Begin Implementing Program Success with Community Agency and Provider Partnerships

Research and Markets - This Book Offers a Critical Analysis of Some of the Guiding Principles and Assumptions That Have Been Central to the Development and Identity of Medical Law

Schizophrenia Therapy - Researchers at New York State Psychiatric Institute have published new data on schizophrenia therapy

SEIU Healthcare - Community Calls on Atria Lynbrook to Bring Back Fired Worker, Stop Discrimination and Harassment

Sevocity - Sevocity Names Catherine Huddle VP Sales and Marketing

Sickle Cell Anemia - Research Identifies Need for Improved Understanding of Sickle Cell Disease in Adulthood

Smoking Cessation - Blue Cross' Stop Smoking Phone Coaching Enrollments Jumped in October

TCC of South Carolina - Rhodes Named Head of Health Plan Administration Company TCC

Teradata Corporation - Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Expands Teradata-Driven Enterprise Intelligence Infrastructure for More Analytical Power

The Doctors Company - System Errors Contribute to 30 Percent of Settled Malpractice Claims, According to New Claims Analysis by the Doctors Company

The Ensign Group, Inc. - The Ensign Group, Inc. Acquires Assets of Three Previously Leased Facilities

TheraDoc, Inc. - Nationally Recognized Quality Care Leader, Saint Vincent Health System, Selects Theradoc to Enhance Infection Control Programs

Tuberculosis - Study data from P. Odermatt and colleagues update understanding of tuberculosis

Type 2 Diabetes - Georgia Healthcare Leadership Council and the Institute for Wellness and Education Release Report on the State of Diabetes in Georgia

Wellness - Employers Refocus Strategies to Promote a ''Culture of Health and Financial Security,'' According to MetLife Study

Wellness - Newly Formed Convenience Care Clinics to Franchise Revolutionary Healthcare Concept Nationwide