Blue Cross to take back oversight of some Magellan Health patients
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts is scaling back its contract with Magellan Health Services, the national for-profit company that oversees mental health treatment for 1.1 million of the insurer's members.
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Concern is raised about a new service brought in to provide medical cover outside surgery hours.
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Medical-care ratio concerns trip up shareholders.
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Small employers that are only willing to pay one-third of their workers' healthcare insurance premiums can now offer policies through Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Previously, the state's largest health insurer only offered coverage to companies that contributed at least one-half of premium costs.
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Stanford University Medical CenterÂs new policy is intended to limit industry influence on patient care and doctor education.
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Patients will be put at risk by a new regulatory system for homeopathic medicine, experts say.
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Cambridge Heart Inc. , a small, publicly traded company based in Bedford, has suffered a setback in its bid to persuade Medicare to mandate its tests for a registry of implantable defibrillator patients.
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TORONTO (CP) - Former health minister Elinor Caplan will lead a review of how contracts are awarded to home-care providers in the province, Health Minister George Smitherman said Monday.
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Providers of medical equipment in two hotbeds of Medicare fraud &#151; Los Angeles and South Florida &#151; will have to reapply to do business with the government and undergo inspections, officials said Monday.
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Private health insurers are being invited to take over the purchasing of care for NHS patients, putting in place one of the final pieces of the government's drive to shift to a fully mixed economy of NHS care.
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Hospitals are being told to standardise patients' wristbands to cut out errors in care.
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Consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) are coming, as businesses shift costs to employees.
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The federal government is now telling patients whether their local hospitals are doing what they should to treat heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia.
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The U.S. Centers for Medicare and  Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday proposed expanding coverage  for costly devices to restore normal heart rhythms to a much  broader population of heart patients.
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One of the two patients hospitalized at Bayonne Medical Center in connection with a recent botulism poisoning has apparently been transferred to a different hospital.
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Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital in March became the first institution in the U.S. to be audited for compliance with the security rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Here's what health officials wanted to know.
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Aetna is the latest insurer to clamp down on the use of a powerful anesthetic during an increasingly common form of colon cancer screening.