News tagged with health care insurance

Uninsured turn to daily deal sites for health care

(AP) -- The last time Mark Stella went to the dentist he didn't need an insurance card. Instead, he pulled out a Groupon.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 31, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 32

Unique 'listening' technology tackles widespread fraud issues

Alaris, a joint venture startup company between ASU and Rolls-Royce, aims to tackle health care insurance fraud that is estimated to cost U.S. taxpayers more than $200 billion each year. This partnership was ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IBM putting Watson to work in health insurance

Enough with the fun and games. Watson is going to work. IBM's supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world's best "Jeopardy!" players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation's largest health ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 13

Fuzzy math in health law formula

(AP) -- Older adults of the same age and income with similar medical histories would pay sharply different amounts for private health insurance due to what appears to be an unintended consequence of the new health care law.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US appeals court hears arguments on health care law

A US federal appeals court in Virginia began Tuesday examining two challenges to President Barack Obama's controversial health care law.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 10

US top court rejects quick health care law ruling

The US Supreme Court rejected Virginia's request Monday to immediately rule on whether President Barack Obama's sweeping health care reform is constitutional.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Obama administration eases pain of Medicare cuts

(AP) -- Millions of seniors in popular private insurance plans offered through Medicare will be getting a reprieve from some of the most controversial cuts in President Barack Obama's health care law.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A national survey: The value of otolaryngologists' services in America

In recent years reimbursement for surgical services has declined, failing to keep up with inflation and economic growth. Financial incentives aimed at re-distributing reimbursement from procedural specialties to primary care ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New site lets employers put health care out to bid

(AP) -- Self-insured businesses looking to cut out the middleman when it comes to health care have a new way to solicit bids directly from doctors or hospitals.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Largest study of high-deductible health plans finds savings, less preventive care

The largest-ever assessment of high-deductible health plans finds that while such plans significantly cut health spending, they also prompt patients to cut back on preventive health care, according to a new RAND Corporation ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Can medical malpractice reform really hold down health care spending?

Maxwell Mehlman, professor of law and medicine, says there's no evidence that reducing a victim's compensation will save money.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 133

New health insurance survey: 9 million adults joined ranks of uninsured due to job loss in 2010

An estimated nine million working-age adults—57 percent of people who had health insurance through a job that was lost—became uninsured in the last two years, according to the Commonwealth Fund 2010 Biennial Health ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cost-effectiveness research needs to be considered in developing new medical technology

Cost-effectiveness analysis should play a bigger role in the American health care system, argued a University of Chicago researcher Friday at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

4.7 million Californians to gain coverage under health reform, new study estimates

Up to two-thirds of California's 7 million uninsured residents will become eligible for health insurance coverage when health care reform is implemented in 2014, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

5 Americans: How health care law affects them

(AP) -- A couple on Medicare got a rebate check to help with prescription drug costs. A Chicago man with diabetes got health insurance through a new government program. And a Philadelphia businessman is hoping his company ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3