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2/13/2009 News For: AARP HealthAARP discusses key health care reform issues CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia should focus on more efficient, preventive health care as a way to help slow the high costs of treating chronic disease, AARP members say."Chronic care folks are consuming the lions share of medical resources," ... Health Highlights: Feb. 12, 2009 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Health groups, union join for ad campaign to thank lawmakers for expanding health coverage WASHINGTON - A variety of interest groups are joining to spend more than $10 million in television and newspaper ads that thank 83 lawmakers for expanding children's health insurance and urge them not to stop there. Health officials want college student data Amid an outcry by college students that school health insurance is skimpy, state regulators yesterday proposed that colleges start tracking how many students rack up annual medical bills beyond what their policies cover. Access Community Health raises fees for uninsured ��The timing couldn't be worse. Even as thousands of people are losing jobs and medical coverage, the largest chain of medical clinics serving needy families in the Chicago area is raising charges to uninsured patients. Access Community Health Network will lift the minimum fee for an office visit to $45 come April 1, up from $15 currently. Read more on the Triage blog at chicagotribune.com ... Qld Health's reputation damaged by controversies: AMA The Australian Medical Association AMA says Queensland Health's reputation is being battered by continuing controversies in regional hospitals. Health insurance fair offers help Local residents needing health insurance can learn whether they qualify and get help applying for state coverage at the Healthy Indiana Plan Information Fair planned for Thursday. Bill would open state health plan to businesses Rep. Jill Schaefer Hammond learned to appreciate the state employees��� health insurance plan firsthand after her premiums, as a self-employed freelance graphic designer, rose 35 percent. She had just lost a major client and was forced to drop coverage for a year. Rickey Weir pleads guilty to health-care fraud Rickey Weir pleaded guilty Thursday to felony health-care fraud and admitted that he conspired to bilk the federal government, insurance plans and patients out of more than $800,000 while he was business manager of the Cardinal Respiratory medical clinic. Green votes in support of bill providing health care to 11 million children U.S. Rep. Gene Green voted Feb. 4 in support of HR 2, the bipartisan State Children���s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009. This legislation passed the House of Representatives 290-135 and was signed Feb. 4, by President Obama. Similar legislation was vetoed twice by President George W. Bush in the 110th Congress. |
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