12/25/2008 News For: Low Cost Health Plans Ma MassachusettsMassachusetts Health Officials Approve Guidelines For Subsidized Health Plans That Are Intended To Drive Down Costs The Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Authority Board on Saturday approved guidelines for contracts with managed care companies that include incentives for cutting costs and patient-protection provisions, the Boston Globe reports. The guidelines will apply to state-subsidized Commonwealth Care health plans, which cover 162,000 residents whose incomes are too high to qualify for Medicaid. Low-cost clinic's financial health needs a booster shot Staff ?members at the Community Health Centers of Pinellas see evidence of the bad economy on a daily basis. More people are coming in who have lost their jobs and their health insurance. Kaiser donates $50,000 to Health Express for transportation to doctor appointments Kaiser Permanente recently donated $50,000 to Auburn-based Health Express to expand its free and low-cost transportation services for patients who don't have access to reliable and affordable transportation to and from their medical appointments. A project of the nonprofit Placer Collaborative Network and Seniors First, the Health Express program was launched late last year to serve western ... Boston Globe Examines Massachusetts Health Insurance Law As Model For National Health Overhaul Plan The Boston Globe on Friday examined how "[k]ey players in the debate over how to provide health care coverage for the nation's 47 million uninsured" residents believe that the Massachusetts health insurance law is "an important model for what Washington could do and how to get it done. Massachusetts Department of Public Health adds Non-Invasive Stool-Based DNA Screening to Colorectal Cancer Screening ... EXACT Sciences Corporation NASDAQ: EXAS today announced that stool-based DNA sDNA screening for colorectal cancer has been added as an approved colorectal cancer screening option to the Massachusetts Care Coordination Program MA-CCP of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The MA-CCP is a state and federally funded program for low-income men and women over age 40 seeking ... Aetna Offers Reduced Rates on New Health Plans for Small NYC Employers -- Starting at $243 Month NEW YORK----Small employers in New York City take note: Aetna has lowered the rates on its NYC Community Plan which offers comprehensive health benefit plan options for your employees starting as low as $243 a month. Mich. chooses prison health company, angers foes LANSING, Mich. ? Michigan is hiring a new company to treat state prisoners with medical problems after investigators criticized the existing health provider for low productivity and not having enough doctors. Pennsylvania gov's top health care aide to leave HARRISBURG ? The director of Gov. Ed Rendell's efforts to expand health insurance to low-income children and adults, help doctors pay their malpractice bills and modernize Pennsylvania's health care system is stepping down. Low risk to public health from Southdown fire Auckland Medical Officer of Health, Dr Denise Barnfather, says the risks to the public remain very low from the fire at the Southdown freezing works site. SCAN Arizona Takes Leading Role in Formation of the New Arizona Association of Health Plans SCAN Health Plan Arizona has joined with six other Arizona health insurers to form the Arizona Association of Health Plans, Inc. The association will work to ensure that health care in Arizona remains affordable, accessible and available. |




