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- Study: NY’s health care system ranks 21st, dragged down by costs
- New York’s health care system ranks 21st in the nation, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund.
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- Northwestern Mutual latest company to open on-site health clinics
- Northwestern Mutual expanded its health care offerings to employees last month, following in the footsteps of several other local employers trying to keep health care costs down by bringing preventive care to their workers.
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- Insurance troubles raise rates in Florida
- Concern is rising that a financial storm could wipe out more property insurance companies in Florida before Mother Nature ever does, causing insurance bills to increase for property owners.
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11:00:00 18-Oct-2009
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- Stakes high for firms without insurance
- Accidents happen. This is a well-known fact, but an especially important one for small business owners trying to protect themselves and their assets.
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11:00:00 18-Oct-2009
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- Staggering health price hikes loom
- RALEIGH – Given current population and health cost trends, non-elderly individuals and families in North Carolina can expect to spend anywhere from 54.1 percent more to 77.6 percent more for their health care 10 years from now, a new study [...]
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- Florida medical malpractice rates dropping
- Businesspeople who see medical malpractice insurance rates as a major factor in driving up health care costs got good news Oct. 1: Doctors’ premiums fell for the fifth consecutive year, dropping by 10 percent statewide in 2008.
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- Canopy seeks to drive health-care efficiency
- Canopy Financial’s stellar growth reflects the importance of being out front on a huge trend. In this case, health care savings accounts.
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- Malpractice reform would save $11 billion, CBO says
- The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that medical liability reforms, such as capping awards for noneconomic damages, would reduce total national health care spending by 0.5 percent. That would equate to $11 billion this year.
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- Study: Arizona in bottom third for health system performance
- A new study ranks Arizona in the bottom third of U.S. states in health system performance. Despite ongoing debate over health care reform, things are not likely to improve anytime soon as state lawmakers and business leaders continue to grapple [...]
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- Unhealthy reform? Medicaid enrollment, costs could rise, dent state budget
- Florida’s Medicaid rolls grew by 600,000 people in the past two years. And that number could grow even larger, due to proposed health care reform legislation that would make it easier for more people to become Medicaid beneficiaries.
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- Courting malpractice reform
- Kaleida Health attorneys went to court last month to fight a $100,000 lawsuit from the family of a patient. The family alleged he died from complications stemming from a toe injury they claim occurred while he was a patient at [...]
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- Health Net seeks opportunity to cover CalPERS members
- At least one additional health plan — Health Net of California Inc. — wants a shot at competing for the thousands of members insured through the health benefits program of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.
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11:00:00 18-Oct-2009
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- Medical malpractice woes linger
- Florida’s tort reform has succeeded in lowering medical malpractice insurance rates, but hasn’t solved the problems of doctors dropping insurance and defensive health costs spiraling, experts say.
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11:00:00 18-Oct-2009
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- Many calculate earthquake insurance isn’t worth the money
- Geology experts say it’s not if the Big One strikes, it’s merely when. Yet the cost of insuring against earthquakes is so prohibitive for businesses that it is not part of their risk management strategy.
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11:00:00 18-Oct-2009
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- Plan would expand mental health parity laws
- Small businesses may be subject to the same health insurance mandates as larger companies under a state proposal to expand federal mental health parity laws.
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11:00:00 18-Oct-2009
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