Jul29
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Decision Resources, Inc.’s new report "U.S. Healthcare Reform: Impact on the Pharmaceutical Industry" to their offering (see also Biologics).Healthcare reform is coming to the United States and everyone is asking, Whats in it for me? The debate to pass healthcare reform into law was long and contentious, [...]
Jul28
Dublin – Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan’s new report "Global Pharma-Biotech Alliance Analysis" to their offering.This Frost & Sullivan research service titled Global Pharma-Biotech Alliance Analysis provides a detailed analysis of the trends, opportunities, and unmet needs in the decision to enter emerging markets by pharmaceutical companies. In this [...]
Jul28
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (MARKET WIRE) 07/29/10 Medical Tourism is a multibillion dollar industry with millions of patients traveling each year to different countries or regions for medical care. One of the most overlooked aspects of medical tourism is domestic medical tourism, often referred to as regional medical tourism, where patients do [...]
Jul27
BOWIE, Md., July 28 /PRNewswire/ MedAssurant Inc., a leading provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, announced that research from a major study by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) was presented in Washington D.C. today featuring MedAssurant's data and analytics. The results were presented by AHIP alongside executives from Aetna, Humana, Tufts and United in a [...]
Jul26
July 27While officials from United Healthcare and Florida Hospital are deadlocked in contract negotiations, thousands of Central Floridians are waiting in a health-care limbo.If the two health-care giants cannot break their impasse by the Aug. 15 deadline, United Healthcare customers face going elsewhere to receive in-network coverage for nonemergency health care.Q. With the contract deadline [...]
Jul26
July 27While officials from United Healthcare and Florida Hospital are deadlocked in contract negotiations, thousands of Central Floridians are waiting in a health-care limbo.If the two health-care giants cannot break their impasse by the Aug. 15 deadline, United Healthcare customers face going elsewhere to receive in-network coverage for nonemergency health care.Q. With the contract deadline [...]
Jul25
To help reduce costs without negative effects on quality, hospitals and health systems in California are joining a labor-related management collaborative managed by the Premier healthcare alliance (see also Premier Inc.).Hospitals stand to lose almost $200 billion in reimbursement during the next decade as a part of healthcare reform, and additional reimbursement dollars will be [...]
Jul25
Premier’s Supply Chain Advisor Now Allows Hospitals to More Easily Identify Environmentally Preferred Purchasing Contracts to Help Improve Environmental Health, Reduce Costs CHARLOTTE, N.C.(BUSINESS WIRE) To help its member [...]
Jul23
Barely a week after launching HealthCare.gov, the first website to provide a central database of health coverage options and other comparative healthcare statistics, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday that new information about the quality of care in America’s outpatient and emergency departments has been posted to the new website.The new data, [...]
Jul23
July 24United Healthcare officials said Friday that senior citizens who buy the company’s Medicare supplemental policies would not be affected if the insurer does not reach an agreement by Aug. 15 with the Florida Hospital chain.That’s why some seniors, such as retiree Tom Fisher of Orlando, never received notification of a contract dispute between the [...]