Insurers paying for rural health project
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Patients in rural communities across Georgia soon will have quick access to big-city medical specialists thanks to a live-video hookup that will serve 36 rural hospitals.
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Gov. Martin O'Malley and Democratic legislative leaders yesterday proposed providing health insurance to 100,000 poor uninsured adults in Maryland and subsidizing small businesses that offer coverage to their employees.
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A study concludes the region's largest health insurer is shirking its legal obligation to support public health needs.
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The premiums insurers will charge to cover the poorest Massachusetts residents are in line with what the architects of the state's new health insurance law predicted, meaning there should be enough money to pay for the plan in its initial year, officials said.
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County supervisors voted Tuesday to give $275,000 to local hospitals and medical providers to help them deal with the exploding number of uninsured residents they are treating.
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WASHINGTON -- The popularity of health savings accounts for the poor will be put to the test in Indiana under a program approved Friday by the Bush administration. Under the plan, someone making $20,000 a year could get health coverage for about $19 a week.
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The Rural Doctors Association of South Australia has called on the major political parties to quarantine federal funding for the state&#39;s small rural hospitals.
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Property and casualty insurers such as State Farm and The Hartford have invested in wireless and other technologies to streamline claims processing for policyholders affected by recent hurricanes.
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The board overseeing healthcare reform yesterday gave its approval to seven health insurance plans that will offer relatively inexpensive coverage to residents who don't have health insurance through their employers or other sources.
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(Source: AT&T)  The federal government has awarded more than $139 million to help healthcare providers move medical records more easily within a geographic region. The hope is that Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIO) will be the building blocks of a National Health Information Network.
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Gov. Sonny Perdue and Republican legislative leaders agreed Tuesday to a temporary fix that would keep a health insurance program for poor children running in spite of dwindling federal funding.
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As one of the first beneficiaries, Zhoema, a herder&#39;s wife in Guinan County of the Northwest China province, paid 50 yuan (US$6) last year to be registered to the healthcare programme.
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There are two ways to judge the recent health agreement reached among the federal government, the provinces and the territories. One is on substance: A fair analysis suggests the funding agreement will improve
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Groups representing most facets of the nation's health care system are lining up in support of a large spending increase for a popular children's insurance program.
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For a monthly fee as low as $50, working-poor residents of Howard County would get access to health services ranging from immunizations and checkups to mental health and hospital care under a plan that county officials say could provide a template for jurisdictions across the nation.
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The federal government today launched a program that provides increased Medicaid payments to doctors that use electronic health records.
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The grants aim to test the idea that diseases such as trachoma and hookworm, which largely afflict the rural poor, can be tackled together more effectively than one at a time.