Citations with the tag: HEALTH insurance -- United States
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- The need for a robust public option.
Nadler, Jerrold // Hill; 6/11/2009, Vol. 16 Issue 68, pS.22The article focuses on the importance of effective, robust and competitive public health insurance option in the U.S.
- Living the Law.
Sohnen-Moe, Cherie // Massage & Bodywork; Dec2003/Jan2004, Vol. 18 Issue 6, p36Delves into the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the U.S. Purpose of HIPAA; Identification of the facets to HIPAA; Importance of privacy in your clients' accounts; Myths surrounding client privacy. INSETS: Sample Fax & E-Mail Confidentiality Notice;HIPAA...
- One in seven Americans do not have health insurance.
Sohnen-Moe, Cherie // American Family Physician; 3/1/96, Vol. 53 Issue 4, p1026Reports that one in seven Americans do not have health insurance according to a report from the January 5, 1996 issue of the `Hospitals & Health Networks' periodical. Number of Americans without health insurance; Americans with private insurance; Americans under Medicare.
- Persons with health problems still face barriers to obtaining insurance.
Sweeney, Rosemarie; Rose, Verna L. // American Family Physician; 04/15/98, Vol. 57 Issue 8, p1752Reports on a study which looked at the health insurance markets in United States in relation to obtaining health insurance for people with health problems. Identification of classes of persons who may be denied; Criteria of the denial; Which organization conducted the study; Reference to the...
- Health insurance.
Sweeney, Rosemarie; Rose, Verna L. // AHA News; 6/19/95, Vol. 31 Issue 25, p5Reports that Americans forgo health insurance after the expiration of a previous insurance. Percentage of the population without health insurance.
- Premium hikes dip below inflation rate.
J.A. // AHA News; 10/9/95, Vol. 31 Issue 41, p4Reports that costs for health plans have risen at rates less than the rate of inflation in 1994, according to Hay Group data. Medical insurance premiums; Citing of managed care as responsible for the trend; Expectation of premiums increase for one or two years before there is a backlash.
- Senators scope out insurance-reform opposition.
G.A. // AHA News; 12/18/95, Vol. 31 Issue 50, p3Reports on the plan of the sponsors of a United States Senate incremental health insurance-reform bill to press their proposals in 1996. Challenges faced by the measure; Impact of insurance industry's opposition to some parts of the bill; Features of the measure.
- 39.7 million Americans uninsured in 1994.
G.A. // AHA News; 1/29/96, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p5Reports that 29.7 million Americans were without health coverage in 1994 according to statistics released by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
- Study: Insurance gap trapped 50 million Americans.
Aston, Geri // AHA News; 10/28/96, Vol. 32 Issue 43, p1Reports on the difficulties Americans have with accessing and paying for health care. Discussion on a study by Kaiser Family Foundation, Harvard University and the National Opinion Research Center on gaps in insurance coverage; AHA/Lewin Group Incorporated report; Decline in employer-sponsored...
- Many rural residents lack health insurance.
Aston, Geri // AHA News; 3/10/97, Vol. 33 Issue 9, p5Reveals that about 7.8 million rural residents in the United States don't have health insurance, according to Timothy McBride, an associate professor at the University of Missouri at St. Louis.
- Consultant names HMO honor roll.
Aston, Geri // AHA News; 05/19/97, Vol. 33 Issue 19, p5Lists the health care plans named to the 1997 Sachs HMO honor roll, which cites health plans considered superior in their markets by their members.
- Panel asks: Is giving consumers a choice of health plans worth the cost?
Cassil, Alwyn // AHA News; 08/18/97, Vol. 33 Issue 32, p3Reports on the limited choices of health plans in the United States. Use of consumer choice as basis for the promotion of quality in the health care system; Documentation of the decline in choice among employer-sponsored plans; Increase in the number of employers who offer only one health plan;...
- Health coverage eroding, GAO reports.
Cassil, Alwyn // AHA News; 08/18/97, Vol. 33 Issue 32, p4Reports on the decrease in private health insurance coverage in all segments of the United States population as concluded in a new study by the US General Accounting Office. Decline in the coverage for children, early retirees and near-poor families; Effects of health care costs on the prices...
- National partners.
Cassil, Alwyn // AHA News; 10/13/97, Vol. 33 Issue 40, p2Focuses on the organizations working with the Campaign for Coverage as national partners to expand health care coverage to the uninsured in the United States.
- 1996 national highlights employer-sponsored health plans.
Cassil, Alwyn // Orange County Business Journal; 2/24/97, Vol. 20 Issue 8, p33Presents statistics on employer-sponsored health plans in the United States in 1996.
- 1996 west region highlights employer-sponsored health plans.
Cassil, Alwyn // Orange County Business Journal; 2/24/97, Vol. 20 Issue 8, p33Presents statistics on employer-sponsored health plans in the United States in 1996.
- Is government healthcare right for Americans?
Cassil, Alwyn // Orange County Business Journal; 07/28/97, Vol. 20 Issue 30, p39Presents the opposing views of Orange County, California physicians, Don R. McCanne and Richard Taketa, on the merits of a nation-wide government-sponsored healthcare plan.
- Medical plan costs soar more than 45 percent in two years.
Cassil, Alwyn // Corporate Board; May/Jun91, Vol. 12 Issue 68, p26Reports on A. Foster Higgins & Co.'s survey findings on the share of health benefits costs on an employer's earnings in the United States. Rate of the increase in the average spending of an employer on medical plans from 1989 to 1990; Projected cost of health benefits on the year 2000;...
- ...and then we die.
Cassil, Alwyn // Countryside & Small Stock Journal; Jan/Feb96, Vol. 80 Issue 1, p28Presents a question and answer advisory on the costs of health insurance in the United States. Attitude of Americans toward death; Homestead issues.
- Medical Savings Accounts lend help with high deductible health plans.
Monahan, Stefanie // Business Journal Serving Fresno & the Central San Joaquin Valley; 08/18/97, Issue 322187, p15Focuses on medical savings accounts (MSA), a tax-deferred account established to pay medical expenses in conjunction with a high deductible health plan. Qualifications for an MSA; Benefits of MSAs; Need for people's awareness of MSAs.
- How would you rank as a manager?
Carr, Reo // Business Journal Serving Fresno & the Central San Joaquin Valley; 09/22/97, Issue 322202, p30Editorial. Focuses on Pacific Business Group on Health's development of a physician group ranking system in an effort to make the information available to help employees select doctors and health plans during open enrollment periods. Use of Internet to disseminate the information via a...
- In the courts.
Moskowitz, Ellen // Hastings Center Report; May/Jun95, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p52Reports on the controversy on health insurers' control of costs by capping coverage for particular medical conditions. Caps for mental illness and HIV-related diseases; Lawsuit against a union health plan by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; US District Court for the District of...
- Health insurance coverage of the U.S. population: 1980-95.
Moskowitz, Ellen // Health Care Financing Review; 1996 Supplement, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p166Discusses statistics on the increase in health insurance enrollees covered in the United States. Classification of health insurance eligibles under Medicaid; Salary demographics of health insurance enrollees; Percentage of the poor covered by federal health insurance policies.
- Trends in age and uninsured status in the United States: 1980-95.
Moskowitz, Ellen // Health Care Financing Review; 1996 Supplement, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p170Discusses statistics obtained from 1980 to 1995 linking age with health insurance enrollment in the United States. Age groups recording the highest number of insurance enrollees; Percentage of uninsured status among children aged 6 to 18 from 1982 to 1987.
- When health coverage spells economic jeopardy.
Moskowitz, Ellen // Hispanic Times Magazine; May/Jun1994, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p31Stresses the importance of knowing your health insurance options before making a career move. How many Americans fear losing their health insurance benefits which are locked into their present jobs; Other options available; The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 (COBRA);...
- A virtual army.
Moskowitz, Ellen // Insurance Advocate; 12/9/95, Vol. 106 Issue 48, p1Reports on the impact of the budget cuts on Medicare and Medicaid. Combination of reductions in government payments coverage and expanded managed care enrollment; Shift of costs to families and employers; Increase in the number of uninsured.
- Health care plans covering outpatient x-rays and lab tests.
Williams, Arthur C. // Monthly Labor Review; Aug93, Vol. 116 Issue 8, p44Examines changes in diagnostic x-ray and laboratory testing during the 1980s, and changes in coverage for such services by employer-provided health care plans. Diagnostic procedures; The trend away from hospitalization; Trends in cost and coverage; Variations by type of health care plan;...
- Health insurers cite individual-market concerns.
Brostoff, Steven // National Underwriter / Property & Casualty Risk & Benefits Manag; 2/5/96, Vol. 100 Issue 6, p35Reports on the individual-market concerns of health insurers in the United States. Chances for Congressional action on health care reform; Need for a meltdown of the individual market.
- Questions answered about medical savings accounts.
Brostoff, Steven // Practical Accountant; Feb97, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p18Provides information on Notice 96-53, which provides question-and-answer guidance pertaining to medical savings accounts (MSAs). Basic information about who can have MSAs and how they can be established; Clarification of the insignificance of permission or authorization from the Internal...
- Source of payment.
Lancashire, Jeff // Public Health Reports; Jan/Feb95, Vol. 110 Issue 1, p106Reports that private health insurance was the expected source of payment for more than one-half of the patients hospitalized for injury and poisoning diagnoses in the younger than 15 years age group; Information on Medicaid, workers' compensation and other sources of payment.
- Children's health insurance.
Lancashire, Jeff // Public Health Reports; May/Jun98, Vol. 113 Issue 3, p200Reports that in America, states will be guaranteed an fund from the federal government for a ten year period 1997-2007 to expand health insurance coverage for children in low income families. Information on the State Children's Health Insurance Program which was enacted in 1997; Details on the...
- Winners and losers under Medical Savings Accounts.
Moon, Marilyn; Nichols, Len M. // Spectrum: Journal of State Government; Winter97, Vol. 70 Issue 1, p26Discusses the effects of introducing Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) into the health insurance market in the United States. Reference to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996; Arguments of the proponents of MSAs; Information on the challenges involved in the MSA...
- On-demand enrollment raises difficult questions.
Burns, Joseph // Managed Healthcare; Jul97, Vol. 7 Issue 7, p63Discusses the impact of on-demand enrollment (ODE) in health plans on employee public relations in the United States. System's effectiveness in a paperless environment; Costs associated with the transaction process; Benefits from the ODE system.
- Employers face deadline after Congress extends COBRA subsidy.
Reinhardt, Eric // Business Journal (Central New York); 1/15/2010, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p9The article reports that employers face deadline on notifying eligible individuals in light of the extension of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) health-premium subsidy program in the U.S.
- Coverage of preventive diabetes care lacking.
Reinhardt, Eric // Drug Topics; 10/20/97, Vol. 141 Issue 20, p7Reports that according to a survey conducted among United States employers, employee health-care plans generally fail to cover preventive diabetes care. Percentage of company health plans that did not cover patient education classes.
- Study: No relief from problem of uninsured.
Reinhardt, Eric // Primary Care Weekly; 05/12/97, Vol. 3 Issue 19, p8Reveals the result of a study conducted by the US Agency for Health Care Policy and Research regarding health insurance coverage among Americans. Hispanics and African-Americans who are still uninsured; Contact information.
- Medicare for everyone.
Soraghan, Mike // Hill; 10/21/2009, Vol. 16 Issue 122, p1No abstract available.
- The time for talk is over.
Grayson, Alan // Hill; 11/17/2009, Vol. 16 Issue 136, p44The article reports on the Affordable Health Care for America Act that will help the Americans to gain access to affordable health insurance halting the national tragedy in the U.S.
- Consumer advocates cheer appeals rules on denied healthcare.
Lillis, Mike // Hill; 7/23/2010, Vol. 17 Issue 87, p11No abstract available.
- Any willing provider is deceptive medicine.
Gradison, Bill // Best's Review / Life-Health Insurance Edition; Apr95, Vol. 95 Issue 12, p54Argues that any-willing-provider bills in the United States not only influence health care coverage and treatments but are also harmful to the business climate. Raised costs for employers and employees; Diminished access to insurance coverage; Limitation of the ability of network health care...
- Americans going uninsured for longer periods.
Gradison, Bill // Best's Review / Life-Health Insurance Edition; Aug95, Vol. 96 Issue 4, p59Looks at a study from the US Census Bureau which found that Americans are going without health insurance for longer periods of time. Findings from data that spanned February 1991 to September 1993; `Economic Well-Being: Health Insurance 1991-1993.'
- Prognosis: Guarded.
Nowacki, Manfred J.; Collett, Douglas A. // Best's Review / Life-Health Insurance Edition; Jan1997, Vol. 97 Issue 9, p68Looks at challenges faced by health care insurers. Importance of medical cost controls in the success of insurance companies; Expansion of the health maintenance organization industry; Impact of managed care on health care delivery systems; Difficulties faced by commercial insurers in...
- Cooking up the next health revolution.
Hann, Leslie Werstein // Best's Review / Life-Health Insurance Edition; Apr97, Vol. 97 Issue 12, p51Focuses on trends concerning health insurance in the United States. Affiliation with primary care doctors, specialists and hospitals; Elimination of managed care entities; Payment systems; Political issues concerning health insurance. INSETS: Pointing beyond the traditional HMO.;Bringing...
- Report sees more out-of-pocket costs.
Hann, Leslie Werstein // Best's Review / Life-Health Insurance Edition; Mar1998, Vol. 98 Issue 11, p14Discloses that a Consumers Union study has found that the private health insurance market in the United States has been unable to help find a way to relieve out-of-pocket expenses. Number of families that spend more than ten percent of their annual income on health insurance premiums,...
- State health reform efforts fizzling.
Woolsey, Christine // Business Insurance; 5/1/95, Vol. 29 Issue 18, p3Reports on the erosion in the political will behind comprehensive state reforms regarding health insurance since the November 1994 elections in the United States. Lack of adequate sources of funding to pay for the uninsured; Medical provider community's preparation of anti-managed care...
- Denial or discrimination?
Woolsey, Christine // Business Insurance; 6/26/95, Vol. 29 Issue 26, p2Reports that federal and state anti-discrimination laws are becoming the weapon of choice for plaintiffs attorneys seeking payment of controversial medical treatments excluded by health insurance policies. Argument that denial of controversial treatment is a violation of the Americans with...
- Perspectives.
Walsh, Catherine // America; 10/28/1995, Vol. 173 Issue 13, p8Presents Catherine Walsh's experience with health insurance from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico. Why companies deny coverage; Her medical history; Importance of health insurance.
- Broker market facility formed for health providers.
Walsh, Catherine // Best's Review / Property-Casualty Insurance Edition; Jan1995, Vol. 95 Issue 9, p69Reports that a broker market facility, the Health Care Insurance Facility, designed to provide packages of property, workers' compensation, casualty and provider stop/loss capitation coverages for medical providers has been established.
- Outlook for group health producers called bleak.
Mulcahy, Colleen // National Underwriter / Life & Health Financial Services; 10/18/93, Vol. 97 Issue 42, p30Presents the outlook for the group insurance market. Effect of legislative reforms on agent functions; Joint meeting of the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers and the National Association of Casualty and Surety Executives; Need to focus on areas with continuing need; Ultimate decision on...
- Cutting costs and improving health: Making reform work.
Cutler, David M. // Health Affairs; Spring95, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p161Presents proposals to improve the health insurance market in the United States. Includes conversion of Medicare into a choice-based system; Opening of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) to individuals and small firms; Elimination of preexisting condition restrictions for...
