Colorado residents without health insurance could face fines if they miss ... - The Denver Channel

The Denver Channel

Colorado residents without health insurance could face fines if they miss ... The Denver Channel "There's many other avenues to get insurance in the market. So we're not the only game in town. It's going to take some time to really assess how many people that were uninsured prior to this going live -- who actually got insured. We'll just have to ...

Ace USA launches catastrophe liability policy for construction - Business Insurance

Ace USA launches catastrophe liability policy for construction Business Insurance The benefit of expanded catastrophe liability coverage is its ability to protect contractors from potential excess exposures by creating a tower of insurance over the main general liability program and eliminating the need for additional endorsements ...

Fort Worth cancels park trail work day after losing insurance - Fort Worth Star Telegram

Fort Worth cancels park trail work day after losing insurance Fort Worth Star Telegram FORT WORTH — Biking and hiking trails in Gateway and Marion Sansom parks will remain open although local volunteers won't be able to work on the trails after losing their insurance coverage. The Fort Worth Mountain Bikers' Association, a nonprofit ...

What to Know for 2014 Crop Insurance Decisions - AgWeb

What to Know for 2014 Crop Insurance Decisions AgWeb But, for now, University of Illinois ag economist and crop insurance specialist Gary Schnitkey, says the 2014 farm bill left previous products and subsidy levels intact. Also, the same Combo and the Area Risk Protection Insurance (ARPI) policies that ...

Share of Minnesotans with workplace health insurance declines - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Share of Minnesotans with workplace health insurance declines Minneapolis Star Tribune Tweet Share via Email. A decline in the number of Minnesotans with employer-based health insurance is drawing concerns from state health officials, but also hope that the state's MNsure health insurance exchange has arrived in time to pick up the slack.

Use caution when getting insurance quotes - KING5.com

Use caution when getting insurance quotes KING5.com He said he received no invoices from the insurance company or his lender about falling behind. Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler says you have to be careful getting any policy and understand the difference between a bid and a bind.

Pothole Nation: Check The Fine Print On Your Insurance - Forbes

Pothole Nation: Check The Fine Print On Your Insurance Forbes Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments. One of the worst winters in recent memory is still in progress, and plenty of people around the country are wondering whether their insurance covers the damage from that giant pothole they just hit.

Oscar health touts its startup approach to insurance - Crain's New York Business

Oscar health touts its startup approach to insurance Crain's New York Business If the New Yorkers who buy health insurance from Oscar are anything like the folks who work there—young, good looking and, like the residents of fictional Lake Wobegon, above average—the startup insurance company will probably make heaps of money.

Obama administration: Health law's new rules will increase costs for most ... - Washington Post

Obama administration: Health law's new rules will increase costs for most ... Washington Post Nearly two-thirds of small businesses that currently offer health insurance to their workers will pay more for coverage as a result of new rules in the health care law, as will millions of small-business employees and their family members, according to ...

Ace USA launches catastrophe liability policy for construction - Business Insurance

Ace USA launches catastrophe liability policy for construction Business Insurance The benefit of expanded catastrophe liability coverage is its ability to protect contractors from potential excess exposures by creating a tower of insurance over the main general liability program and eliminating the need for additional endorsements ...

US farm bill holds crop insurance coverage steady for 2014 - Reuters

US farm bill holds crop insurance coverage steady for 2014 Reuters CHICAGO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers and bankers have almost a year to get ready for major changes in 2015 as crop insurance rather than direct cash payments to producers becomes the centerpiece of farm policy under the five-year farm bill signed ...

Most Primary Care Doctors Prefer Delivering Radiology Results To Patients Themselves

The vast majority of primary care physicians prefer to deliver radiology results to their patients themselves – they say they feel medically and legally obligated by recommendations within radiology reports, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Lead author, Andrew J. Gunn, MD, explained that radiology reports are […]

Patients Should Be More Involved In Medical Decision Making

A new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that the level of shared decision making among adult patients who had discussed medical tests, medications and procedures with their doctors was not as high as expected. A national survey was conducted in 2011 by Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., Ph.D., from the Informed Medical […]

More ‘Activated’ Patients Had Substantially Lower Health Care Costs

When it comes to health care, patients with the motivation, knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own health have better health outcomes and incur fewer health care costs. Those are the findings of a study led by Judith Hibbard, a professor emerita in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University […]

Premium Costs For Public Health Insurance Affect Coverage

Requiring individuals to pay a premium for public health insurance coverage can counteract the coverage effects of expanding eligibility for public health insurance programs to higher income families. That is the finding of a study by a team of researchers from Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS), University of California at Los […]

Terminating Medicare Consults Linked To A Rise In Total Spending

Getting rid of payments for Medicare consultations frequently billed by specialists was seen to be connected with a new increase in spending during visits to specialists as well as primary care doctors, suggests a new study examining medicare data published in Archives of Internal Medicine. Preceding 2010, Medicare costs for consultations were significantly greater than […]

The Sports Cars Insurance Companies Prefer You Didn't Drive - Businessweek

The Sports Cars Insurance Companies Prefer You Didn't Drive Businessweek In insure.com's annual ranking of the most and least expensive cars to insure, the usual road-focused race cars were on the top. Nissan Motor's (7201:JP) GT-R, commonly known as the Godzilla, landed the top spot, with a yearly insurance bill of about ...

Primary Care Physicians May Be Hard To Find By Newly Insured Patients

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act – now assured by the re-election of President Obama – is expected to result in up to 50 million currently uninsured Americans acquiring some type of health insurance coverage. But a study by researchers at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds that a […]

Discrimination Against People With Low Socio-Economic Status Evident In Some Family Physicians’ Offices

Family physicians’ offices appear to discriminate against people of low socio-economic status, even when there is no economic incentive to do so under Canada’s system of publicly-funded universal health insurance, new research has shown. At the same time, these offices appear to give preference to people with chronic health conditions, according to the research led […]

Study: Barriers To Prostate Cancer Care: Affordable Care Is Not Enough

A combination of financial, cultural and communication barriers plays a role in preventing underserved Latino men with prostate cancer from accessing the care and treatment they need, according to a new study by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing. The study, “Barriers to Prostate Cancer Care: Affordable Care Is Not Enough,” is published in […]

Keeping Millions Of American Women And Their Families Healthy

Women’s issues play a major role in the health of the nation and should be a key consideration for policymakers as they design and set up the new insurance exchanges, according to a report co-authored by policy experts at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). The report offers a […]

Socialite Murder Trial Hinges on Insurance Policy - ABC News

ABC News

Socialite Murder Trial Hinges on Insurance Policy ABC News Is she a socialite, a sociopath or both? Pamela Phillips, 56, is on trial in the 1996 car-bomb death of her former husband, high-flying commercial real estate developer Gary Triano. Tucson, Ariz., prosecutors say she wanted his $2 million life ...

Scott asks Obama to help on flood insurance rates - First Coast News

Scott asks Obama to help on flood insurance rates First Coast News Rick Scott of Florida is asking President Barack Obama to "use his pen" to block federal flood insurance rates that threaten to price tens of thousands of Floridians out of their homes and businesses. After Scott and other governors met with Obama at ...

Ace USA launches catastrophe liability policy for construction - Business Insurance

Ace USA launches catastrophe liability policy for construction Business Insurance The benefit of expanded catastrophe liability coverage is its ability to protect contractors from potential excess exposures by creating a tower of insurance over the main general liability program and eliminating the need for additional endorsements ...

The Cheapest 2014 Cars To Insure - Forbes

The Cheapest 2014 Cars To Insure Forbes If the sheer volume of television, radio and Internet advertising affords any indication, we live in a nation that's obsessed with shopping for the lowest car insurance rates. “More than a billion dollars are spent each year on auto insurance ...

Maryland fires contractor that built troubled health insurance exchange - Washington Post

Maryland fires contractor that built troubled health insurance exchange Washington Post Maryland has fired the contractor that built its expensive online health insurance marketplace, which has so many structural defects that officials say the state might have to abandon all or parts of the system. The Maryland Health Benefit Exchange ...

US farm bill holds crop insurance coverage steady for 2014 - Reuters

US farm bill holds crop insurance coverage steady for 2014 Reuters CHICAGO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers and bankers have almost a year to get ready for major changes in 2015 as crop insurance rather than direct cash payments to producers becomes the centerpiece of farm policy under the five-year farm bill signed ...

Most Primary Care Doctors Prefer Delivering Radiology Results To Patients Themselves

The vast majority of primary care physicians prefer to deliver radiology results to their patients themselves – they say they feel medically and legally obligated by recommendations within radiology reports, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Lead author, Andrew J. Gunn, MD, explained that radiology reports are […]

Patients Should Be More Involved In Medical Decision Making

A new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that the level of shared decision making among adult patients who had discussed medical tests, medications and procedures with their doctors was not as high as expected. A national survey was conducted in 2011 by Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., Ph.D., from the Informed Medical […]

More ‘Activated’ Patients Had Substantially Lower Health Care Costs

When it comes to health care, patients with the motivation, knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own health have better health outcomes and incur fewer health care costs. Those are the findings of a study led by Judith Hibbard, a professor emerita in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University […]

Premium Costs For Public Health Insurance Affect Coverage

Requiring individuals to pay a premium for public health insurance coverage can counteract the coverage effects of expanding eligibility for public health insurance programs to higher income families. That is the finding of a study by a team of researchers from Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS), University of California at Los […]

Terminating Medicare Consults Linked To A Rise In Total Spending

Getting rid of payments for Medicare consultations frequently billed by specialists was seen to be connected with a new increase in spending during visits to specialists as well as primary care doctors, suggests a new study examining medicare data published in Archives of Internal Medicine. Preceding 2010, Medicare costs for consultations were significantly greater than […]

Primary Care Physicians May Be Hard To Find By Newly Insured Patients

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act – now assured by the re-election of President Obama – is expected to result in up to 50 million currently uninsured Americans acquiring some type of health insurance coverage. But a study by researchers at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds that a […]

Discrimination Against People With Low Socio-Economic Status Evident In Some Family Physicians’ Offices

Family physicians’ offices appear to discriminate against people of low socio-economic status, even when there is no economic incentive to do so under Canada’s system of publicly-funded universal health insurance, new research has shown. At the same time, these offices appear to give preference to people with chronic health conditions, according to the research led […]

Study: Barriers To Prostate Cancer Care: Affordable Care Is Not Enough

A combination of financial, cultural and communication barriers plays a role in preventing underserved Latino men with prostate cancer from accessing the care and treatment they need, according to a new study by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing. The study, “Barriers to Prostate Cancer Care: Affordable Care Is Not Enough,” is published in […]

Keeping Millions Of American Women And Their Families Healthy

Women’s issues play a major role in the health of the nation and should be a key consideration for policymakers as they design and set up the new insurance exchanges, according to a report co-authored by policy experts at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). The report offers a […]

Is Too Much Insurance Killing The American Health System - Forbes

Is Too Much Insurance Killing The American Health System Forbes In a 2009 Atlantic article titled How American Healthcare Killed My Father, and in a 2013 book titled Catastrophic Care, David Goldhill blames the high cost and low quality of medical care in the U.S. on our overly generous health insurance system ...

7 Life Insurance Myths That Should Die - TheStreet.com

7 Life Insurance Myths That Should Die TheStreet.com "Life insurance has never been as inexpensive or easy to buy -- especially with the anticipated growth of online and nontraditional purchasing channels -- yet, millions of consumers continue to put off the decision," says Marvin H. Feldman, chief ...

Buying health insurance in Michigan: 7 things you need to know - Detroit Free Press

Buying health insurance in Michigan: 7 things you need to know Detroit Free Press Deadline to buy health insurance is March 31. If you don't already have insurance through your employer, or family member's policy, you have only a few weeks left. March 31 cutoff closes a rocky, six-month start to the most sweeping provision of the law.

A Tax Cut That 'Pays For' Unemployment Insurance and Infrastructure - Huffington Post

A Tax Cut That 'Pays For' Unemployment Insurance and Infrastructure Huffington Post It is bad economic policy. But, all economic policy that could pass a Republican-controlled House of Representatives is bad. All they care about, really, is tax cuts for the wealthy. But those tax cuts do not create jobs or "pay for themselves." Nor do ...

Ace USA launches catastrophe liability policy for construction - Business Insurance

Ace USA launches catastrophe liability policy for construction Business Insurance The benefit of expanded catastrophe liability coverage is its ability to protect contractors from potential excess exposures by creating a tower of insurance over the main general liability program and eliminating the need for additional endorsements ...

Maryland has achieved its health insurance enrollment goal, thanks to a ... - Washington Post

Maryland has achieved its health insurance enrollment goal, thanks to a ... Washington Post For months, it looked like Maryland would barely meet, or even miss, the first enrollment goal for its new health insurance exchange. But it turns out the goal was based on flawed data, and the state's new goal is one that it has already beat. Instead ...

Having Health Insurance Doesn't Guarantee Best Treatment - KTRH

Having Health Insurance Doesn't Guarantee Best Treatment KTRH So you have health insurance (and not an Obamacare plan) and you think you'll be taken care of if you ever get sick. But that perception is being put to the test by reality. A study done by the Stanford University of Medicine says if you have insurance ...

US farm bill holds crop insurance coverage steady for 2014 - Reuters

US farm bill holds crop insurance coverage steady for 2014 Reuters CHICAGO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers and bankers have almost a year to get ready for major changes in 2015 as crop insurance rather than direct cash payments to producers becomes the centerpiece of farm policy under the five-year farm bill signed ...

Most Primary Care Doctors Prefer Delivering Radiology Results To Patients Themselves

The vast majority of primary care physicians prefer to deliver radiology results to their patients themselves – they say they feel medically and legally obligated by recommendations within radiology reports, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Lead author, Andrew J. Gunn, MD, explained that radiology reports are […]

Patients Should Be More Involved In Medical Decision Making

A new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that the level of shared decision making among adult patients who had discussed medical tests, medications and procedures with their doctors was not as high as expected. A national survey was conducted in 2011 by Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., Ph.D., from the Informed Medical […]

Obamacare insurance plans require premium payments to ensure medical ... - Houston Chronicle (blog)

Houston Chronicle (blog)

Obamacare insurance plans require premium payments to ensure medical ... Houston Chronicle (blog) Once you sign up for coverage, your insurance company will tell you when your payment is due. It will usually be the same time each month. Most health plans also offer various ways to pay premiums, including check, money order, mail or automatic payment.

More ‘Activated’ Patients Had Substantially Lower Health Care Costs

When it comes to health care, patients with the motivation, knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own health have better health outcomes and incur fewer health care costs. Those are the findings of a study led by Judith Hibbard, a professor emerita in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University […]

Premium Costs For Public Health Insurance Affect Coverage

Requiring individuals to pay a premium for public health insurance coverage can counteract the coverage effects of expanding eligibility for public health insurance programs to higher income families. That is the finding of a study by a team of researchers from Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS), University of California at Los […]

Terminating Medicare Consults Linked To A Rise In Total Spending

Getting rid of payments for Medicare consultations frequently billed by specialists was seen to be connected with a new increase in spending during visits to specialists as well as primary care doctors, suggests a new study examining medicare data published in Archives of Internal Medicine. Preceding 2010, Medicare costs for consultations were significantly greater than […]

Primary Care Physicians May Be Hard To Find By Newly Insured Patients

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act – now assured by the re-election of President Obama – is expected to result in up to 50 million currently uninsured Americans acquiring some type of health insurance coverage. But a study by researchers at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds that a […]

Discrimination Against People With Low Socio-Economic Status Evident In Some Family Physicians’ Offices

Family physicians’ offices appear to discriminate against people of low socio-economic status, even when there is no economic incentive to do so under Canada’s system of publicly-funded universal health insurance, new research has shown. At the same time, these offices appear to give preference to people with chronic health conditions, according to the research led […]

Study: Barriers To Prostate Cancer Care: Affordable Care Is Not Enough

A combination of financial, cultural and communication barriers plays a role in preventing underserved Latino men with prostate cancer from accessing the care and treatment they need, according to a new study by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing. The study, “Barriers to Prostate Cancer Care: Affordable Care Is Not Enough,” is published in […]

Keeping Millions Of American Women And Their Families Healthy

Women’s issues play a major role in the health of the nation and should be a key consideration for policymakers as they design and set up the new insurance exchanges, according to a report co-authored by policy experts at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). The report offers a […]

Most Primary Care Doctors Prefer Delivering Radiology Results To Patients Themselves

The vast majority of primary care physicians prefer to deliver radiology results to their patients themselves – they say they feel medically and legally obligated by recommendations within radiology reports, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Lead author, Andrew J. Gunn, MD, explained that radiology reports are […]

Patients Should Be More Involved In Medical Decision Making

A new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that the level of shared decision making among adult patients who had discussed medical tests, medications and procedures with their doctors was not as high as expected. A national survey was conducted in 2011 by Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., Ph.D., from the Informed Medical […]

Edgy ads aim to sell health insurance to young people as March 31 coverage ... - Detroit Free Press

Edgy ads aim to sell health insurance to young people as March 31 coverage ... Detroit Free Press Premiums from younger, healthier people help offset the costs of older, sicker beneficiaries in insurance pools. Insurers are tracking the demographics of their insurance pools closely, and some worry that without enough young people, premiums will ...

More ‘Activated’ Patients Had Substantially Lower Health Care Costs

When it comes to health care, patients with the motivation, knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own health have better health outcomes and incur fewer health care costs. Those are the findings of a study led by Judith Hibbard, a professor emerita in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University […]

Premium Costs For Public Health Insurance Affect Coverage

Requiring individuals to pay a premium for public health insurance coverage can counteract the coverage effects of expanding eligibility for public health insurance programs to higher income families. That is the finding of a study by a team of researchers from Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS), University of California at Los […]

Terminating Medicare Consults Linked To A Rise In Total Spending

Getting rid of payments for Medicare consultations frequently billed by specialists was seen to be connected with a new increase in spending during visits to specialists as well as primary care doctors, suggests a new study examining medicare data published in Archives of Internal Medicine. Preceding 2010, Medicare costs for consultations were significantly greater than […]

Primary Care Physicians May Be Hard To Find By Newly Insured Patients

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act – now assured by the re-election of President Obama – is expected to result in up to 50 million currently uninsured Americans acquiring some type of health insurance coverage. But a study by researchers at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds that a […]

CONSUMER FORUM Do you need water line insurance? - Bangor Daily News

CONSUMER FORUM Do you need water line insurance? Bangor Daily News Not long ago, a Bangor resident wrote to ask us about a letter she had received that asked if she was interested in buying water line insurance. It's not a question we get every day, so we tried to educate ourselves before responding. It turns out that ...

Discrimination Against People With Low Socio-Economic Status Evident In Some Family Physicians’ Offices

Family physicians’ offices appear to discriminate against people of low socio-economic status, even when there is no economic incentive to do so under Canada’s system of publicly-funded universal health insurance, new research has shown. At the same time, these offices appear to give preference to people with chronic health conditions, according to the research led […]

Study: Barriers To Prostate Cancer Care: Affordable Care Is Not Enough

A combination of financial, cultural and communication barriers plays a role in preventing underserved Latino men with prostate cancer from accessing the care and treatment they need, according to a new study by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing. The study, “Barriers to Prostate Cancer Care: Affordable Care Is Not Enough,” is published in […]

Keeping Millions Of American Women And Their Families Healthy

Women’s issues play a major role in the health of the nation and should be a key consideration for policymakers as they design and set up the new insurance exchanges, according to a report co-authored by policy experts at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). The report offers a […]

Wife of Former Fire Chief Talks About Husband's Death, Lost Insurance - KARK

KARK

Wife of Former Fire Chief Talks About Husband's Death, Lost Insurance KARK The family of former Oak Grove Fire Chief Randy Pogue is still grieving the loss of the father of four. Pogue was retired Air Force, worked for the state police and was a part-time chief of the small department. Now, the family is trying to figure out ...

Trackers might drive up insurance rates - Columbus Dispatch

Trackers might drive up insurance rates Columbus Dispatch Still, his comments point to a whiff of wariness around the evolving relationship between such technology and insurance. Less than 1 percent of drivers might be using the gadgets for insurance purposes, analysts estimate, but the number is growing .

Women And Long-Term Care Insurance - Forbes

Women And Long-Term Care Insurance Forbes I've been thinking about long-term care insurance a lot lately, because my dad would have been 94 yesterday. He died six years ago after a long battle with Alzheimer's. Dad didn't have long-term care insurance, so his $5,000-a-month costs in an ...

Most Primary Care Doctors Prefer Delivering Radiology Results To Patients Themselves

The vast majority of primary care physicians prefer to deliver radiology results to their patients themselves – they say they feel medically and legally obligated by recommendations within radiology reports, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Lead author, Andrew J. Gunn, MD, explained that radiology reports are […]

Patients Should Be More Involved In Medical Decision Making

A new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that the level of shared decision making among adult patients who had discussed medical tests, medications and procedures with their doctors was not as high as expected. A national survey was conducted in 2011 by Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., Ph.D., from the Informed Medical […]

More ‘Activated’ Patients Had Substantially Lower Health Care Costs

When it comes to health care, patients with the motivation, knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own health have better health outcomes and incur fewer health care costs. Those are the findings of a study led by Judith Hibbard, a professor emerita in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University […]

Premium Costs For Public Health Insurance Affect Coverage

Requiring individuals to pay a premium for public health insurance coverage can counteract the coverage effects of expanding eligibility for public health insurance programs to higher income families. That is the finding of a study by a team of researchers from Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS), University of California at Los […]

Terminating Medicare Consults Linked To A Rise In Total Spending

Getting rid of payments for Medicare consultations frequently billed by specialists was seen to be connected with a new increase in spending during visits to specialists as well as primary care doctors, suggests a new study examining medicare data published in Archives of Internal Medicine. Preceding 2010, Medicare costs for consultations were significantly greater than […]

Primary Care Physicians May Be Hard To Find By Newly Insured Patients

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act – now assured by the re-election of President Obama – is expected to result in up to 50 million currently uninsured Americans acquiring some type of health insurance coverage. But a study by researchers at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds that a […]

Four more cancers to be covered by insurance program for 9/11 first-responders - RT

RT

Four more cancers to be covered by insurance program for 9/11 first-responders RT The United States Department of Health and Human Services program that provides care to first-responders injured during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks will now extend coverage to victims with four types of cancer previously not considered.

Discrimination Against People With Low Socio-Economic Status Evident In Some Family Physicians’ Offices

Family physicians’ offices appear to discriminate against people of low socio-economic status, even when there is no economic incentive to do so under Canada’s system of publicly-funded universal health insurance, new research has shown. At the same time, these offices appear to give preference to people with chronic health conditions, according to the research led […]

Study: Barriers To Prostate Cancer Care: Affordable Care Is Not Enough

A combination of financial, cultural and communication barriers plays a role in preventing underserved Latino men with prostate cancer from accessing the care and treatment they need, according to a new study by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing. The study, “Barriers to Prostate Cancer Care: Affordable Care Is Not Enough,” is published in […]

Rent-A-Center Creates A Captive Insurance Legacy In Tax Court - Forbes

Rent-A-Center Creates A Captive Insurance Legacy In Tax Court Forbes The captive insurance world is all aflutter about the decision in favor of the taxpayer in the Rent-A-Center v. Commissioner opinion. While Rent-A-Center certainly holds some good lessons for larger corporate captive, how much comfort does it give to ...

Keeping Millions Of American Women And Their Families Healthy

Women’s issues play a major role in the health of the nation and should be a key consideration for policymakers as they design and set up the new insurance exchanges, according to a report co-authored by policy experts at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). The report offers a […]

Liver transplant bash is unique, caring way to pay health insurance deductible - The Flint Journal

Liver transplant bash is unique, caring way to pay health insurance deductible The Flint Journal In a unique, caring way to pay for health insurance, friends of 28-year-old Alena Christian are throwing a party Saturday to pay her $3,000 deductible and ensure there's no delay getting her a liver transplant. Christian says she doesn't necessarily ...

US farm bill holds crop insurance coverage steady for 2014 - Reuters

US farm bill holds crop insurance coverage steady for 2014 Reuters CHICAGO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers and bankers have almost a year to get ready for major changes in 2015 as crop insurance rather than direct cash payments to producers becomes the centerpiece of farm policy under the five-year farm bill signed ...

Managing Risk—Captive Insurance Companies - Mondaq News Alerts (registration)

Managing Risk—Captive Insurance Companies Mondaq News Alerts (registration) An additional potential benefit of a captive insurance company lies in the U.S. federal income tax treatment of such a company. From a tax perspective, the captive insurance company must: (i) take on insurance risk; (ii) exhibit risk shifting and risk ...

After the Storm: Filing An Insurance Claim - WSIL TV

After the Storm: Filing An Insurance Claim WSIL TV Here are some tips from State Farm Insurance. Before the Storm. 1. Save your insurance company's information in your cell phone, if you have a local agent, save their number as well as the catastrophe number of each company that you are insured with.

Women And Long-Term Care Insurance - Forbes

Women And Long-Term Care Insurance Forbes I've been thinking about long-term care insurance a lot lately, because my dad would have been 94 yesterday. He died six years ago after a long battle with Alzheimer's. Dad didn't have long-term care insurance, so his $5,000-a-month costs in an ...

Why Aren't We Buying Insurance Against Global Warning? - Huffington Post (blog)

Why Aren't We Buying Insurance Against Global Warning? Huffington Post (blog) Every responsible person carries insurance against all sorts of life's potential catastrophes. We don't think twice about buying health insurance, home insurance, car insurance, life insurance, liability insurance, and it goes on and on. From a gambler ...

Woman fights insurance on mastectomy - krqe.com

Woman fights insurance on mastectomy krqe.com And while she has found what she believes is a solution – a double mastectomy – her insurance company isn't on board. But she's not going down without a fight. “My sister passed away first. I was 22 and just getting ready to get married to my husband ...

Most Primary Care Doctors Prefer Delivering Radiology Results To Patients Themselves

The vast majority of primary care physicians prefer to deliver radiology results to their patients themselves – they say they feel medically and legally obligated by recommendations within radiology reports, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Lead author, Andrew J. Gunn, MD, explained that radiology reports are […]

Patients Should Be More Involved In Medical Decision Making

A new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that the level of shared decision making among adult patients who had discussed medical tests, medications and procedures with their doctors was not as high as expected. A national survey was conducted in 2011 by Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., Ph.D., from the Informed Medical […]

More ‘Activated’ Patients Had Substantially Lower Health Care Costs

When it comes to health care, patients with the motivation, knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own health have better health outcomes and incur fewer health care costs. Those are the findings of a study led by Judith Hibbard, a professor emerita in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University […]

Premium Costs For Public Health Insurance Affect Coverage

Requiring individuals to pay a premium for public health insurance coverage can counteract the coverage effects of expanding eligibility for public health insurance programs to higher income families. That is the finding of a study by a team of researchers from Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS), University of California at Los […]

Terminating Medicare Consults Linked To A Rise In Total Spending

Getting rid of payments for Medicare consultations frequently billed by specialists was seen to be connected with a new increase in spending during visits to specialists as well as primary care doctors, suggests a new study examining medicare data published in Archives of Internal Medicine. Preceding 2010, Medicare costs for consultations were significantly greater than […]

Primary Care Physicians May Be Hard To Find By Newly Insured Patients

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act – now assured by the re-election of President Obama – is expected to result in up to 50 million currently uninsured Americans acquiring some type of health insurance coverage. But a study by researchers at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds that a […]

Discrimination Against People With Low Socio-Economic Status Evident In Some Family Physicians’ Offices

Family physicians’ offices appear to discriminate against people of low socio-economic status, even when there is no economic incentive to do so under Canada’s system of publicly-funded universal health insurance, new research has shown. At the same time, these offices appear to give preference to people with chronic health conditions, according to the research led […]

Study: Barriers To Prostate Cancer Care: Affordable Care Is Not Enough

A combination of financial, cultural and communication barriers plays a role in preventing underserved Latino men with prostate cancer from accessing the care and treatment they need, according to a new study by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing. The study, “Barriers to Prostate Cancer Care: Affordable Care Is Not Enough,” is published in […]

Keeping Millions Of American Women And Their Families Healthy

Women’s issues play a major role in the health of the nation and should be a key consideration for policymakers as they design and set up the new insurance exchanges, according to a report co-authored by policy experts at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). The report offers a […]

Maine insurance bureau approves steepest workers' comp rate decrease in 16 ... - Bangor Daily News

Maine insurance bureau approves steepest workers' comp rate decrease in 16 ... Bangor Daily News The bureau based its approval on a recommendation the National Council on Compensation Insurance, a rating organization that analyzes workers' comp insurance rates for several states, including Maine, made in a report released earlier this month.

Managing Risk—Captive Insurance Companies - Mondaq News Alerts (registration)

Managing Risk—Captive Insurance Companies Mondaq News Alerts (registration) An additional potential benefit of a captive insurance company lies in the U.S. federal income tax treatment of such a company. From a tax perspective, the captive insurance company must: (i) take on insurance risk; (ii) exhibit risk shifting and risk ...

When winter weather leads to a damage claim - CBS News

When winter weather leads to a damage claim CBS News The first thing to do is to read your insurance policy, including all declarations, endorsements and riders. Pay attention to language under covered risks and any specific risks that relate to your particular loss (for example, losses caused by weight ...

Does Health Insurance Improve Health? Evidence From Massachusetts - Forbes

Does Health Insurance Improve Health? Evidence From Massachusetts Forbes It is always important to remember that healthcare and health insurance are two very different things, and neither of them is a guarantee of good health. Therefore, when people talk about Obamacare providing people with medical care, we have to ...