| Search 1) News For: Infertility Health Coverage With reduced coverage, Kodak retirees face decisions Kodak retirees begin to grapple with changes in their health insurance coverage. Health Highlights: Sept. 14, 2008 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Metro Woman Battles Insurance Company Over Cancer Coverage If you're diagnosed with a life threatening disease and you have health coverage, you would expect the insurance company to pay for your care. But one area woman has learned that's not always the case. FOX 4's Monica Evans has more on one Metro woman's battle with cancer and her insurance company. Many parents glad extended coverage for dependents fills void Gov. Rod Blagojevich ���finally got one right,��� Tracy Starwalt says of a new law that will force many Illinois companies to raise the age at which they provide health insurance to their employees��� children. Free health and vision screenings Lancaster Partners for a Healthy Community will offer free health and vision screenings and dental care in Lancaster on Sunday for children and adults who lack adequate health insurance or dental coverage.Sponsored by Highmark Blue Shield and United Concordia Companies Inc., the screenings... Udall, Schaffer talk health care Senate candidates Mark Udall and Bob Schaffer agreed Saturday on the need for better access to affordable health insurance but supported different ways to reach that goal. Fidelis offering health insurance at Vassar Brothers POUGHKEEPSIE - Fidelis Care, the New York State Catholic Health Plan serving more than 420,000 members in 41 counties across the state, has joined Vassar Brothers Medical Center to offer free or low-cost health insurance for Mid-Hudson Valley residents eligible for the state's Child Health Plus, Family Health Plus, and Medicaid programs. Health Net to reinstate 926 dropped policyholders in California Under an agreement with the state, the company also will pay $3.6 million in penalties and as much as $14 million in medical reimbursements it had earlier denied. It does not admit wrongdoing. In a continuing state crackdown on health insurers, Health Net Inc. of Woodland Hills has agreed to offer new coverage -- no questions asked -- to 926 people whose policies it canceled after they got ... Health ministry orders better treatment for poisoned milk powder victims China's Ministry of Health MOH on Sunday ordered provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities to set up expert panels to provide medical consultation for baby patients poisoned by contaminated milk powder. Medical institutions must provide sick babies with free and in-time treatment in accordance with the treatment plan set up by the MOH, and consult provincial expert panels or MOH experts ... Negros Oriental launches own health insurance DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines ���Negros Oriental has launched its own health insurance program that promises to outdo the state-owned PhilHealth in delivering medical services. |

