Protests in Favor of Health Reform a Precursor to Massive Change in the Insurance Market

The ultimate goal of the healthcare reform is to attempt to regulate the incredibly high health insurance costs which leaves many out in the cold when it comes to healthcare. However, this is just the beginning of massive change in the insurance market as other sectors come under intense scrutiny. One of these will most [...]

Medical Banking Rx Receives Disruptive Innovator Award

Medical Banking Rx, LLC, a full service pharmacy benefit management (PBM) firm, today announced that it has received the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Medical Banking Project Disruptive Innovator Award. The Disruptive Innovator Award was in recognition of the development of Patient Driven Rx(SM), a truly unique prescription drug program that [...]

Consumer Health Insurance Site Founder: Health Reform or No Health Reform, Americans Can Help Reduce Rolls of the Uninsured

For many uninsured Americans, finding health insurance coverage may be a simple matter of getting information about coverage that’s already available to them. And, while state governments and health care advocacy groups are making concerted efforts to direct the uninsured to coverage, efforts by ordinary citizens can also help reduce the rolls of the uninsured, [...]

A Health Insurance Mandate With a Choice

(THE NEW YORK TIMES) - DESPITE President Obama’s letter on Tuesday offering to consider several Republican health-care provisions, hope for bipartisan progress on the issue has quickly faded. Republicans have already dismissed the changes as merely cosmetic, and the president has signaled his support for passing the final changes to the [...]

Proposed Medicaid Cuts Threatens Health Care Access for 400,000 Maryland Children

Similar Situation Faces 23 Million Children Across America
St. Mary’s City, MD (Vocus) March 2, 2010 — As Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley proposes cutting $123 million from Medicaid for the 2011 budget, in addition to the $179 million cut from fiscal year 2010, a new study by Dr. Todd Eberly, assistant professor of political science and [...]

CDPHP® Announces Expansion of Medical Home Pilot

Second Phase has Potential to Encompass 100 Area Practitioners Serving Nearly 100K Members in Region

Albany, NY (Vocus) March 4, 2010 — CDPHP® recently announced the second phase of its patient-centered medical home (PCMH) pilot, which was originally launched in May 2008. Developed to achieve improvements in the quality and efficiency of health care through [...]

Medibank Premium Rise Remains Below Industry Average

Medibank Private to raise health insurance premiums below-industry average of 5.74%.
(PRWEB) March 3, 2010 — Medibank Private today announced that health insurance premiums will rise by a below-industry average of 5.74%, which equates to around $1.58 per week for a single membership.

CEO Medibank Private Health Insurance, Bruce Levy, said that while the fund’s health costs [...]

Small businesses juggling health insurance premiums

(TELEGRAM) - When Sunshine Sign Co. went to renew its health insurance plan for workers this year, the small business faced a daunting figure — 21 percent.
That’s how much the Grafton company’s premiums for coverage under the Fallon Community Health Plan are going up, and it translates to a price [...]

The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care

(THE NEW YORK TIMES) - Suppose Congress and President Obama fail to overhaul the system now, or just tinker around the edges, or start over, as the Republicans propose — despite the Democrats’ latest and possibly last big push that began last week at a marathon televised forum in Washington.
Then “my [...]

Businesses struggling with health insurance

(SIGN ON SAN DIEGO) - About a week before President Barack Obama’s summit on health care in Washington, D.C., Robert Metz, the owner of San Diego’s Voice and Video Sales, was sorting through his mail when he noticed a letter from his health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross of California.
Metz was prepared [...]