Showing posts with label Affordable Health Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Affordable Health Care. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Report: Americans Give Online Thumbs Down To #healthinsurers – Capsules - The KHN Blog #healthcare #hcsm #mdchat #rnchat

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By Christian Torres October 3rd, 2011, 6:02 AM Americans’ dislike for health insurers is a trending topic. Seventy percent of social media ...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Top 5 Don’ts for Doctors in Primary Care - By RONI CARYN RABIN-NYTimes.com

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Antibiotics for sore throats and CT scans for minor head injuries in children are among the most wasteful practices in primary care medici...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Action For Better Healthcare » Finally a roadmap for a coordinated approach to patient care

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released their long anticipated regulations dealing with ten pages of the 2,200-page March 2010...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Does screening and treating high cholesterol save money? KevinMD.com

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by Richard Young, MD A commenter (I believe a physician) on one of my posts wrote the following: “I can prevent heart attacks and strokes ...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Home Page - National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities

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Learn About the NPA → The Mission → The Goals → Social Determinants Get Involved → Become a Partner → Find an OMH ...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Autism Diagnoses Still More Likely in Richer Neighborhoods - Yahoo! News

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Poor children with autism are less likely than richer kids to have the condition diagnosed, but this disparity has decreased in recent ...

Accountable Care Organizations: Improving Care Coordination for People with Medicare | HealthCare.gov

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The Affordable Care Act includes a number of policies to help physicians, hospitals, and other caregivers improve the safety and quality of...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Find Health Care Options - Public Information - MOHLTC

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A Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic can provide ongoing care while helping promote disease prevention and healthy living. Nurse practitioners c...

Rand: High-deductible health plans produce good and bad outcomes | Healthcare Finance News

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A new study by the Rand Corporation indicates people on high-deductible health plans significantly reduce their healthcare spending – but t...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

Men avoid the doctor, survey finds - Chicago Sun-Times

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Almost half of men 18 to 50 don’t have a primary-care physician, and a third haven’t had a checkup in more than a year, a new survey shows....

Nurse practitioners are charting a new course - Roanoke.com

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A turf war with potential economic, political and health care consequences is under way in Virginia. It has been gaining momentum for yea...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Body Measurement Tracker | HealtheHuman

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Body Measurement Tracker Use the Body Measurements Tracker to keep track of your measurements over...

Cuts Leave Patients With Medicaid Cards, but No Specialist to See - NYTimes.com

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Eight-year-old Draven Smith was expelled from school last year for disruptive behavior, and he is being expelled again this year. But his m...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

New Health Insurance Survey: 9 Million Adults Joined Ranks of Uninsured Due to Job Loss in 2010; Few Viable Health Insurance Options Exist for Unemployed - The Commonwealth Fund

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An estimated nine million working-age adults—57 percent of people who had health insurance through a job that was lost—became uninsured in ...

Poll: Americans Are (Still) Confused About Health-Care Overhaul Law - Health Blog - WSJ

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More than half of Americans say they don’t fully understand the health-care overhaul law, according to the latest Kaiser Family Foundation ...
Monday, March 28, 2011

amednews: More adults going without medical care because of costs :: March 28, 2011 ... American Medical News

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More working-age Americans are going without health insurance and not seeking physician care for injuries or illness because they can't...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Branded drug prices soar as generic pressure rises | Reuters

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Pharmacists in Jordan-based Hikma Pharmaceuticals package generic versions of Ciprofloxacin hydrochloride 750 mg which will be ex...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Health Care and You

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The Affordable Care Act – One Year Later We’ve seen some changes in health care over the past... GAO report shows succ...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Dems To GOP: Show Us Your Health Insurance : Shots - Health Blog : NPR

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With Republicans on Capitol Hill still trying every legislative manuever they can think of to undo last year's health law, it was prob...