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Thousands of Medi-Cal patients in Santa Clara County may not be able to use their local hospital to deliver babies or have non-emergency operations starting Tuesday.
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The state's highest court affirmed an already approved 2.5 percent average increase in auto insurance premiums for this year, but said the insurance commissioner may have to revise her decision in a way that would ease premiums for certain drivers. The Supreme Judicial Court rejected Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly's challenge of a new formula used by Insurance Commissioner Julianne ...
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It's a new way to push for patient safety: Don't pay hospitals when they commit certain errors. Medicare will start hitting hospitals where it hurts in October, and other insurers are hot on the trail
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When Shannan Phillips's employer went out of business last year, she quickly found a new part-time job. But her new employer did not provide health insurance to part-time workers.
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For the second consecutive year, federal employees are getting a big break on their health insurance premiums.
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The increasing cost of health insurance is putting coverage out of reach for many small to midsize companies and their workers, even though the rise in premiums this year was the lowest increase in eight years.
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Retirees with company-sponsored medical benefits face higher costs, more restrictions and different plan options as their former employers move to curb their spending on such perks, a new study said.
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Emergency room doctors at Mary Washington Hospital have ended their contract with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the largest private health insurer in the state.
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Physicians in a northwest Maryland county plan to halt non-emergency surgeries for at least two weeks to protest a 33 percent increase in malpractice insurance premiums.
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The fall can be an anxious time for employees across the country, as companies hold their annual open enrollment periods and invite workers to choose benefits from a complex range of health insurance, disability coverage and retirement savings alternatives.
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A growing number of public universities are requiring that students have health insurance before they step into the classroom, a move aimed at saving the uninsured from huge bills and college hospitals from getting stuck with the cost.
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The move would be the first time Wal-Mart has used its influence to lower the cost of health care for its customers.
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A majority of consumers said the biggest change in their health insurance last year was higher copayments for prescription drugs, according to survey results released yesterday.
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Independent Health has added options and adjusted rates for 2005 in Encompass 65, a group of Medicare managed care plans. The health plan has introduced a no monthly premium plan that includes office visits
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Marsh &amp; McLennan Companies Inc. (MMC) on Friday announced a change in the management of Marsh Inc., its risk and insurance services subsidiary.
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Imagine making an emergency call not for help getting to the hospital but after you've already arrived there. That's what Ray Clement and his wife did last year at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Shadyside Hospital, where he had gone with a suspected blood clot. When Clement thought...
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There are many other treatment options for people with arthritis, and physicians are considering them patient by patient. Washington -- Physicians are pulling out their risk-versus-benefit calculators once