News For: Nationwide Mutual Medical InsuranceBe wary of medical discount cards Mark Sarmadi, a diabetic, thought he had found the answer to getting health coverage when a salesman pitched him what he thought was a low-cost insurance program. 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. Star Hospitals.net and India-Based Star Health and Allied Insurance Company, LTD Poised to Work With U.S. Insurance ... Star Hospitals.net, a North American healthcare facilitator, continues to break ground in the booming medical tourism industry in India by partnering with the country's first and most successful health insurance company, Star Health and Allied Insurance Company, LTD. Through this joint venture the two premier healthcare services will focus on collaborating with a U.S. or Canadian-based health ... Nigeria militant leader needs medical care : wife, lawyer The suspected leader of Nigeria's main militant group in the Niger Delta, who now is detained on treason charges, needs urgent medical attention for a kidney ailment, his wife and lawyer said Monday. 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. 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. Agnes Cummings to perform at Community Medical Center event Local actress Agnes Cummings is scheduled to headline the Community Medical Center Auxiliary���s ninth annual Reading and Tea fundraiser Sunday at St. Mary���s Center. 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 Craig Polinsky, MD, joins medical staff at Boca Hospital Craig S. Polinsky, MD, has been appointed to the medical staff at Boca Raton Community Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine. Dr. Polinsky attended medical school at the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Mexico. 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. |


