News For: Childresn Medical InsuranceInsurance and healthcare sectors collaborate to support BIA workshop The Bahrain Insurance Association BIA expressed their delight at the convergence of public and private sectors in the fields of insurance and healthcare, in support of the BIA's upcoming 2-day Medical Insurance Workshop. Insurance Denies Life-Saving Surgery, Calling It "Cosmetic" "Aetna health insurance has denied me coverage to treat a disconnected jawbone and insufficient airway, which is called mandible/maxillary hypoplasia," explains Karen George of Woodbridge, Virginia. "Aetna stated they see no necessity for surgery except for cosmetic reasons despite the fact that I have medical necessity letters from six different doctors. Nigeria militant leader seeks urgent medical care: wife The suspected leader of Nigeria's main militant group in oil-rich Niger Delta, who is in detention on treason charges, needs urgent medical care for a kidney ailment, his wife and lawyer said Monday. Suspect medical bills a hot topic with MACo Nine months after starting negotiations, Montana’s county governments, hospitals and law enforcement agencies have deadlocked over who should pay the rising medical bills of people injured in encounters with law enforcement officers. Temecula couple known for medical-marijuana activism arrested, charged with possession, cultivation TEMECULA - Police seized dozens of marijuana plants and about five pounds of dried marijuana Friday from the Temecula home of a medical user well known in Riverside County for his activism on the issue. Premo lawsuit seeks nearly $500,000 for medical expenses A lawsuit filed in Cass County District Court seeks nearly $500,000 to cover the medical expenses of Anthony Premo Sr., who was attacked with baseball bats on his front porch. Health insurance compromise reached They have reached a compromise in the planned increase in health insurance premiums for city of Shreveport employees: Employees were looking at their premiums going up 16. 8 percent. It now will go up 5. 1 percent, with the difference next year picked up by reserves in the Zimbabwe: Major Rethink on Medical Aid Benefits Needed MEDICAL aid, especially with the huge extension of coverage to most commercial and industrial workers in the early years of independence, has been a major funder, second only to the State, of Zimbabwe's medical facilities. Call to end foreign wives' medical fees A Bahraini MP has called upon the government to start implementing a decision to exempt foreign wives of Bahrainis from paying medical fees in its hospitals and clinics, Gulf News has reported. Tuscaloosa hospitals faced with more uninsured Although the number of Americans without health insurance dropped in 2007, local hospitals are seeing a growing number of patients who can't pay for their medical treatment. |


