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- Clinton pushes Congress for mental health benefit parity.
- WASHINGTON--President Bill Clinton pledged to continue working for legislation mandating parity for mental health care benefits as he signed the Kassebaum-Kennedy health care reform bill into law last week. "I want to reiterate my disappointment tWASHINGTON--President Bill Clinton pledged to continue working for legislation mandating parity...
- Research articles 1996-08-26
- Health care a hot topic in new Congress. (column)
- Health Care A Hot Topic In New Congress Health care legislation will be a hot topic in the 102nd Congress, which opened its two-year life earlier this month. Introduced on the opening day of the new Congress was a national health insurance...
- Research articles 1991-01-28
- AARP: Older New Yorkers Will Be Hit Hard by Federal Budget Cuts
- ALBANY, N.Y., Nov. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week on a budget bill that could deny health and long-term care services to people who least can afford them. The votes from members of New York's Congressional delegALBANY, N.Y., Nov. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ --...
- Research articles 2005-11-09
- AlterPoint Gains Momentum in Healthcare Sector Due To Compliance Initiatives; Customer Base Increases 70 Percent; Leading Operator of Long-Term Care Centers Selects DeviceAuthority Suite To Enforce HIPAA, SOX
- AUSTIN, Texas -- AlterPointTM, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network change and configuration management NCCM solutions, today announced a 70 percent jump in customer adoption by healthcare organizations worldwide. The increase is a direct result of companies scrambling to meet pressing deadlines on compliance initiatives such as HIPAA and...
- Research articles 2005-05-02
- Aetna is a leading national provider of insurance coverage. We offer a broad range of benefits including dental, life, pharmacy, disability, long-term care group and, at course, health
- Aetna is a leading national provider of insurance coverage. We offer a broad range of benefits including dental, life, pharmacy, disability, long-term care group and, at course, health. No matter what the size of your business, you can meet the diverse needs of your employees and get the added benefit...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- Home Care Reimbursement, Long-Term Care Utilization, and Health Outcomes
- Long-term care currently comprises almost 10% of national health expenditures and it is projected to rise rapidly over coming decades. A key, and relatively poorly understood, element of long-term care is home health care. The paper uses a substantial change in Medicare reimbursement policy, which took the form of tightly...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- A Guide for People With Medicare: Choosing Long-Term Care
- Long-term care is a "variety" of services that help people with health or personal needs and activities of daily living over a period of time. Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, or in various types of facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Choosing long-term...
- White papers 2001-11-01
- Supporting Caring Caregivers: Policy and Practice Initiatives in Long Term Care
- An MIT Workplace Center working paper reports on 40 interviews in the healthcare sector in Massachusetts and identifies five key problems. Frank and Eaton focus in the long term care industry on the very problems identified in that working paper: poor quality jobs including short staffing, inflexible schedules and difficult...
- White papers 2005-05-25
- Guidelines for Preventing Health Care-Associated Pneumonia, 2003: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
- This paper updates, expands, and replaces the previously published CDC "Guideline for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia". The new guidelines are designed to reduce the incidence of pneumonia and other severe, acute lower respiratory tract infections in acute-care hospitals and in other health-care settings (e.g., ambulatory and long-term care institutions) and...
- White papers 2004-03-26
- Policy Options for Financing the Future Health and Long-Term Care Costs in Japan
- As the Japanese population structure changes, health care and long-term care costs will steadily increase. The current style of financing (pay-as-the person-go) will create a large increase in future burden of these costs. This paper studies an alternative policy that prefunds the social insurance benefits for the elderly. During a...
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Newest frontier in insurance sales: long-term health care for boomers.(Brief Article)
- IAFP education push adds to big GE drive Like it or not, get ready to hear a lot more about long-term-care insurance. GE Financial Assurance of Richmond, Va., is one of several companies and industry groups...
- Research articles 1999-11-01
- Survey: nursing home costs average $203 per day.(HEALTH CARE: Special Section)
- The average daily cost of a private room in a nursing home in the United States is $203 per day or $74,095 annually; according to the annual MetLife Market Survey, of Nursing Home & Home Care Costs, conducted by the company's Mature Market Instit The average...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- AARP Launches Grassroots Campaign to Stop Medicaid Eligibility Changes; Pataki's Budget Proposes to Cut Access to Health Care
- ALBANY, N.Y., March 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today AARP announced an aggressive grassroots campaign to garner support from the public and in the State Legislature to stop Governor Pataki's proposed restrictions to access Medicaid long-term care services. ThALBANY, N.Y., March 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today AARP announced an aggressive...
- Research articles 2004-03-23
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- FHS to Sell Washington Health Plan to American Family Care; FHS Also Announces Transition Agreements With PacifiCare of Washington and Premera HealthPlus
- LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 8, 1999-- Foundation Health Systems Inc. (NYSE:FHS) announced today that it recently signed a Definitive Agreement to sell its Washington health-plan subsidiary, QualMed Washington Health Plan, to American Family Care Inc., an operator of health plans based in Long Beach, Calif. Once the transaction is...
- Research articles 1999-10-08
- Cherry Street Health Services and Altarum Institute Launch Partnership to Implement Integrated Chronic Care Model
- GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Grand Rapids-based Cherry Street Health Services CSHS and Altarum Institute have announced a unique partnership designed to improve patient care and support the implementation of...
- Research articles 2009-08-12
- Medical Eye Services and The Eye Care Network Name New CEO
- Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers LONG BEACH, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 30, 2003 The Board of Directors of Medical Eye Services and The Eye Care Network announced that Aspasia Shappet, current President, has been named as Chief Executive Officer of the two companies. Ms. Shappet joined MES/ECN in 1993...
- Research articles 2003-01-30
- Health Care Reform: How It Will Affect You
- The bills moving through Congress could have a bigger impact on your financial future than any legislation in a long, long time. Here's all you need to know to follow the key issues. ...
- Articles 2009-08-07
- What the Health Care Reform Plans Get Wrong
- An American Enterprise Institute economist gives his recommendations for how health care reform should be pursued -- and explains why he's skeptical of President Obama's claims that if you like your current health insurance plan, you'll be able to keep it. Miller...
- Articles 2009-08-17
- Wal-Mart Health Reform Move Has History, Reason
- Although it seems to have come as a shock to some, Wal-Mart’s decision to embrace employer health care mandates as part of health care reform shouldn’t surprise anyone who has followed the company for any period of time. On July 24, 2007, then CEO Lee Scott outlined...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Breaking Down Obama's Health Care Cuts
- Under President Obama’s budget proposal, about half of the money required to fund his $634 billion “reserve fund†for health reform would come from changes in Medicare and Medicaid spending. Jacob Goldstein of the WSJ Health Blog has dug up a detailed list of these projected savings from 2010-2019 in...
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
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