Managed Care Law Weekly

LTC Financial Partners - As an Aging Workforce Loses Productivity, Seminar Will Explore the Cause and Cure

Lumetra - Older Women Face Unique Health Gaps in California

Lymphoma - Medicare & Medicaid Ruling Poses Significant Threat to Radioimmunotherapy (RIT) Treatment

Managed Care - Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Goes After National Competitors to Regain Market Share

Managed Care - Kaiser Permanente Recognized by NCQA for Innovative Program to Reduce Health Care Disparities

Managed Care - Kindred Healthcare Appoints Kathleen M. Wiljanen as Vice President of Managed Care

Medicare and Medicaid - 1.3 Million More People Enrolled in Medicare Managed Care Plans

Medicare and Medicaid - 2008 Open Enrollment for Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Coverage and Medicare Advantage Plans Begins Today

Medicare and Medicaid - ACS Announces $18.5 Million Contract with Idaho Medicaid

Medicare and Medicaid - ADDING MULTIMEDIA Health Net, Inc. Promotes Paul Lambdin to President of Health Net of the Northeast

Medicare and Medicaid - APS Healthcare's Health Management Program Helps Wyoming Medicaid Avoid More than $17 Million in Expenditures

Medicare and Medicaid - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma Announces Flexible, Affordable Blue MedicareRx(SM) Medicare Prescription Drug Plans

Medicare and Medicaid - Change in Medicare and Medicaid Legislation Creates Market for Antimicrobial Coatings In the U.S.

Medicare and Medicaid - Federal Government Recommends NCPDP ePrescribing Standards Introduced by RxHub

Medicare and Medicaid - Health Net Joins Fight Against Heart Disease Among Seniors

Medicare and Medicaid - Health Net, Inc. Promotes Paul Lambdin to President of Health Net of the Northeast

Medicare and Medicaid - Lack of Medicare Part D Coverage for All Medically Necessary Prescriptions Endangers Older Americans and Those with Chronic Diseases and Disabilities

Medicare and Medicaid - MAXIMUS Awarded $15 Million Medicaid Contract by Indiana

Medicare and Medicaid - Medicare Cuts Pose Disproportionate Threat to Idaho's Rural Seniors, Local Jobs Base

Medicare and Medicaid - Medicare Cuts Pose Disproportionate Threat to West Virginia's Rural Seniors, Local Jobs Base

Medicare and Medicaid - Medicare Rx Beneficiaries Urged to Review Changes to Their Drug Plans and Compare with Other Plans During Open Enrollment

Medicare and Medicaid - National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative Supports Medicare Proposal to Adopt Additional Standards for ePrescribing

Medicare and Medicaid - New medicare and medicaid study results reported from Virginia Commonwealth University, Massey Cancer Center

Medicare and Medicaid - State Medicaid drug policies impeding access to effective drug for alcohol abuse

Medicare and Medicaid - Statewide Meetings Will Help Pennsylvanians to Choose Among Medicare Prescription Plans

Medicare and Medicaid - Universal American Announces Name Change and Listing on the New York Stock Exchange

Medicare and Medicaid - WellCare Earns Senior Choice Gold Award for Medicare Advantage Benefits Plan

Medicare and Medicaid - WellPoint to Administer Part D Enrollment Program for Low Income Medicare Beneficiaries

Menorrhagia - Hysterectomy Rates Unchanged Despite Less Expensive Alternatives

Mental Health - Research from World Health Organization in mental health provides new insights

Mental Health - University of Minnesota releases first ever comprehensive report of the health of college students

Mental Illness - Research on mental illness discussed by scientists at University of Manitoba

Michigan State Medical Society - Michigan State Medical Society Says Rate Drop Shows Tort Reform is Working

Obesity and Diabetes - November/December Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet

Obstructive Sleep Apnea - CHAD Therapeutics to Sell Its Oxygen Conserver Business and Focus on Development and Marketing of Patented Medical Devices for the Sleep Disorder Market

Orthopedics - New orthopedics study results from K.B. Blomquist et al described

Patents - New Report Predicts the Thai Pharmaceutical Market to Grow at an Average Rate of 4.8% in the Medium Term

PharmMD - PharmMD Becomes an ASCP MTM Provider Partner

Research and Markets - Research and Markets: US Health Care IT Expenditures by Category, 2006-2011

Research and Markets Ltd. - New Data Resource Gives Forecasts to 2011 for US Health Care Computer Hardware Expenditures

Research and Markets Ltd. - New Report Examines US Health Care IT Personnel Expenditures to 2011

Research and Markets Ltd. - Research and Markets: US Health Care Outsourcing Expenditures, 2006-2011

Surgery - Scientists at Johns Hopkins University, Department of Surgery describe research in surgery

The First Church of Christ, Scientist - California's Huge Health Care Opportunity

U.S. Care Management - State of Arkansas Department of Human Services, Division of Medical Services Selects U.S. Care Management for High-Risk Obstetrics Health Management Program

Viant, Inc. - Viant Appoints Keith Vangeison as Executive Vice President of Network Development

Wellness - Proof that Workplace Wellness Programs do Work