Do Hmos or Insurance Providers Have the Right to Require the Use of Generic Drugs as Substitutes for Name-Brand Drugs in Order to Save Money?
Viewpoint: Yes, HMOs and insurance providers have the righ...
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Health Maintenance Organization
The early Health Maintenance Organizations, like the Kaiser-Permanente Foundation, were based on a certain assumptions. They thought that if cost barriers were removed,...
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Health care costs could rise more than 10 percent in 2007, unless companies change their plans, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
"What the insurers are projecting is double...
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The American Medical Association on Monday asked the Department of Justice to block UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s proposed purchase of Sierra Health Services Inc., saying the deal would be anticompetit...
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Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest health maintenance organization, will pay a $2 million fine and give $3 million to an organ donor program because of mismanagement of a kidney transplan...
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Prosecutors have filed civil complaints against two hospitals and a transportation service accusing them of dumping homeless patients in Skid Row, including a paraplegic man found crawling in a gut...
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Prosecutors have filed civil complaints against two hospitals and a transportation service accusing them of dumping homeless patients in Skid Row, including a paraplegic man found crawling in a gut...
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Police have broken up an organ transplanting ring that persuaded dozens of Israelis to have their kidneys removed in Ukraine for $30,000 each, a spokesman said Monday.Nine Israelis suspected of tra...
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A look at action in Congress on Wednesday:CHILDREN'S HEALTHDemocrats pushed through legislation to add 6 million lower-income children to a popular health insurance program and made deep cuts in fe...
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The Senate moved slowly Thursday toward passage of legislation to add 3 million lower-income children to a popular health insurance program, in bipartisan defiance of President Bush's threatened ve...
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The Senate moved slowly Thursday toward passage of legislation to add 3 million lower-income children to a popular health insurance program, in bipartisan defiance of President Bush's threatened ve...
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The Senate passed legislation Thursday to add 3 million lower-income children to a popular health insurance program in bipartisan defiance of President Bush's threatened veto.The 68-31 vote, one da...
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