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Unison Health Plan employees donate socks to Operation Safety Net

Employees from Unison Health Plan, part of AmeriChoice, the nation’s largest Medicaid managed care company, have donated 1,243 pairs of socks to Operation Safety Net, helping Pittsburgh’s homeless.

4 Jan 2010

Employees from AmeriChoice donate 535 pairs of socks to the Dayspring Center in Indianapolis

Employees from AmeriChoice, the nation’s largest Medicaid managed care company, have donated 535 pairs of socks to the Dayspring Center in Indianapolis. Nationally, the drive collected socks in nearly 30 different locations to benefit local charities.

4 Jan 2010

Employees from UnitedHealthcare of Wisconsin donate 1183 pairs of socks to Milwaukee Rescue Mission

Employees from UnitedHealthcare of Wisconsin, part of AmeriChoice, the nation’s largest Medicaid managed care company, have donated 1183 pairs of socks to the Milwaukee Rescue Mission.

4 Jan 2010

Health Partners receives NCQA Accreditation

Health Partners' Medical Assistance plan has once again received "Excellent" status, the highest level of Accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the most recognized accrediting body in the United States for health plans.

24 Dec 2009

Fitch Ratings affirms Siskin's TN variable-rate demand bonds at 'A-'

Fitch Ratings takes the following rating action on Siskin Hospital for Physical Rehabilitation, Inc. (Siskin) as part of its continuous surveillance effort: -- approximately $5.8 million Chattanooga Health, Educational, and Housing Facility Board, TN variable-rate demand bonds, series 1990A, affirmed at 'A-'.

24 Dec 2009

Fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2009 results announced by Prospect Medical Holdings

Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc., which owns and operates five community-based hospitals and manages the medical care of approximately 177,000 HMO enrollees in southern California, today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter and year ended September 30, 2009.

21 Dec 2009

Leerink Swann announces availability of its 2010 healthcare investment outlook report

Leerink Swann, the leading healthcare-focused investment banking firm, today announced the availability of the firm’s 2010 healthcare investment outlook report.

18 Dec 2009

CDHPs deliver quality and accessible health coverage at lower costs

As overall medical costs continue to increase by double digits annually, medical costs for individuals in account-based consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) went down 26% over four years, while levels of care for their preventive medicine, chronic disease management and evidence-based treatments were higher than their counterparts in traditional PPO and HMO health plans, according to a new multi-year study of health care claims experience of 655,000 CIGNA customers.

16 Dec 2009

Beneficiaries may need to pay coinsurance for orally delivered oncology drugs, says new report

HealthLeaders-InterStudy and Fingertip Formulary find that over the next five years, a greater percentage of health plans will transition orally delivered oncology drugs from a copayment structure to a reimbursement model that incorporates a coinsurance payment, thereby shifting more costs onto patients. Copayments represent a set dollar amount associated with a pharmacy benefit while coinsurance represents a percentage of cost that must be paid by the beneficiary.

15 Dec 2009

SCAN Health Plan Arizona named to the 2009 "Best Places to Work" list

The Phoenix Business Journal and BestCompaniesAZ, co-founders of the "Best Places to Work" competition, announced today that SCAN Health Plan Arizona has been named to the 2009 list in the medium-sized category. Companies were nominated by their employees, who provided extensive insight into employee life.

11 Dec 2009

TAFP and RemitDATA team up to improve revenue and reimbursement trends

RemitDATA, Inc., a leading provider of web-based productivity tools and benchmarking to the outpatient healthcare market, today announced that Texas Academy of Family Physicians (TAFP), the largest medical specialty organization, serving over 5,500 family physicians in Texas, has joined forces with RemitDATA to aggregate members' reimbursement data and provide real-time payer benchmarking to help TAFP identify problematic payers and troubling reimbursement trends before they turn into cash-flow pitfalls.

8 Dec 2009

Crescent Healthcare CIO selected as finalist for 'Chief Innovation Officer' Appy Award

Pamela Bowen, Chief Information Officer at Crescent Healthcare, was selected as a finalist for the "Chief Innovation Officer" Appy Award for transforming Crescent's business with the power of cloud computing.

5 Dec 2009

Health experts available to discuss health care reform

Edward D. Miller was named chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine, the 13th dean of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and vice president for medicine of The Johns Hopkins University in January 1997.

5 Dec 2009

Partners HealthCare System's series 2009J fixed-rate revenue bonds rated 'AA'

Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AA' to Partners HealthCare System's approximately $475 million Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority revenue bonds (Partners HealthCare System), fixed-rate revenue bonds, series 2009J, which are expected to be sold as two sub series. Fitch also affirms its 'AA' long-term rating on all of Partners' outstanding debt and affirms its 'F1+' rating on approximately $485 million of Partners HealthCare System's debt that is backed by self-liquidity.

5 Dec 2009

Amgen/GSK's Prolia will be preferred as second- or third-line therapy for osteoporosis

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the majority of surveyed clinicians say they will use Amgen/GlaxoSmithKline's Prolia as either a second- or third-line therapy for osteoporosis if the drug receives regulatory approval for the indication.

4 Dec 2009

Care Support of America's outpatient palliative care coordination model improves the quality of life for seniors

Care Support of America's model of outpatient palliative care coordination, Advanced Illness Coordinated Care (AICC), has been shown to reduce hospitalizations in the last years of life as well as improve the quality of life for seniors and their family caregivers without increasing mortality. These are the principal findings of a new study published in American Journal of Managed Care (November 2009).

3 Dec 2009

Free HIV testing marathon at Miami

To commemorate World AIDS Day 2009, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will host a 12-hour free HIV testing marathon at its newest “Out of the Closet” Thrift Store in Miami at 2900 N. Biscayne Blvd. Tuesday, December 1st, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

30 Nov 2009

Dermatologists express strong interest in Stelara, despite concerns

BioTrends Research Group, Inc. released Wave 1 of its LaunchTrends(TM): Stelara report, the first in a multi-phase syndicated market research project tracking the launch of Centocor Ortho-Biotech's Stelara, from product launch through the first six months of availability. Each wave of the report provides quantitative information from 75 unique Dermatologists and qualitative information from a subset of 20.

26 Nov 2009

Obesity: A major contributor to the development of Type 2 diabetes

"Many Americans have a very limited understanding of the basic facts about diabetes, as well as the serious consequences for health that accompany the disease," commented Sue McLaughlin, RD, CDE, President, Health Care & Education, American Diabetes Association, in a media alert. She blames the problem on a combination of factors including denial of the disease and promotion of inaccurate information or myths surrounding diabetes.

21 Nov 2009

All Americans should have guaranteed access to affordable coverage: AHIP

"The promise of health care reform is that it will provide all Americans coverage, allow them to keep their coverage if they like it, and bends the cost curve to put the system on a sustainable path. These are the standards by which any reform bill should be judged, and the Senate bill falls short of meeting them. We believe that these issues can be addressed and improved to achieve these goals, and we will continue to work with policymakers toward that end.

20 Nov 2009

Managed Care News and Research

Unison Health Plan employees donate socks to Operation Safety Net

Employees from AmeriChoice donate 535 pairs of socks to the Dayspring Center in Indianapolis

Employees from UnitedHealthcare of Wisconsin donate 1183 pairs of socks to Milwaukee Rescue Mission

Health Partners receives NCQA Accreditation

Fitch Ratings affirms Siskin's TN variable-rate demand bonds at 'A-'

Fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2009 results announced by Prospect Medical Holdings

Leerink Swann announces availability of its 2010 healthcare investment outlook report

CDHPs deliver quality and accessible health coverage at lower costs

Beneficiaries may need to pay coinsurance for orally delivered oncology drugs, says new report

SCAN Health Plan Arizona named to the 2009 "Best Places to Work" list

TAFP and RemitDATA team up to improve revenue and reimbursement trends

Crescent Healthcare CIO selected as finalist for 'Chief Innovation Officer' Appy Award

Health experts available to discuss health care reform

Partners HealthCare System's series 2009J fixed-rate revenue bonds rated 'AA'

Amgen/GSK's Prolia will be preferred as second- or third-line therapy for osteoporosis

Care Support of America's outpatient palliative care coordination model improves the quality of life for seniors

Free HIV testing marathon at Miami

Dermatologists express strong interest in Stelara, despite concerns

Obesity: A major contributor to the development of Type 2 diabetes

All Americans should have guaranteed access to affordable coverage: AHIP

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