Despite legislation, prompt payment for radiology services 'elusive goal' in New Jersey
...nce decreased access. Even patients with insurance coverage frequently discover their choices are limited as physicians are forced to cease participating with a tardy payer," he said. In addition, the study found a clean claims filing rate of 97% that, according to the researchers, contradicts the managed car...Lack of insurance coverage, cost cited as reasons for not seeking mental health services
(Washington, D.C., June 28, 2004) Insurance coverage problems and costs supplant stigma as the number o... Association. Americans say it's lack of insurance coverage (87%) or cost (81%) that most keeps them from seeing a mental health professional with 65% citing la...First proof that cutting Rx drugs due to cost harms health
...findings will help inform policies on prescription coverage both before and during Americans' Medicare years, ...is age group to reduce this trend, and making drug coverage available for those pre-Medicare older adults who do not otherwise have it may help prevent later pr...Long history of missed opportunities plague Medicare prescription drug benefit
...ng seniors to opt out if they would prefer to keep coverage they currently have; and the program will be paid ...that blocked the introduction of prescription drug coverage in the past are reflected in the current benefit, which appears to provide inadequate assistance for...Beneficiaries with chronic conditions still face high costs under new Medicare drug law
...2,251 a year and will therefore be affected by the coverage gap, or "donut hole," that occurs between $2,251 a...expenses in the $3,000--$5,000 range. "The gap in coverage in the benefit occurs just where the need is most acute for the chronically ill," said Commonwealth ...May/June 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...list, specialist board certification and insurance coverage accepted by specialist varies with the race and sex of the referring physician. What Can Family Physicians Offer Patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Other than Surgery? A Systematic Review of Nonsurgical Management By Felicity Goodyear-Smith, M...St. Jude helps South American community achieve improved survival rates for leukemia
...pecially trained nurses, 24-hour on-site physician coverage or adequate access to intensive care. In the middle period (1994-1997), 78 children were treated according to the most advanced St. Jude treatment protocol then available (Total XI). These children were cared for in the general hospital wards by nurs...Extra Medicare payments for private health plans to total $2.75 billion in 2004
...care has not been promising, as plans have dropped coverage where it hasn't been profitable. Beneficiaries who lose their coverage in this manner often face disruption in their care as they seek coverage through another plan or Med...Poor kids' health insurance situation changes often, affecting their medical care, study finds
... but end it with another kind -- or go without any coverage at all for part of the year. More than 5.7 millio...-income kids who experience these changes in their coverage each year are more likely to postpone doctor visits and prescriptions, to go a year without seeing a...Childhood vaccination coverage affected by temporary suspension of hepatitis B vaccine
...patitis B vaccine dose on the first day. First-day coverage decreased to 11 percent among children born during... in months 7 to 12 after the suspension, first-day coverage was 23 percent and 33 percent, respectively (compared with baseline at months 7-12 before the suspen...APA poll: Most Americans have sought mental health treatment but cost, insurance still barriers
...but most still perceive cost and lack of insurance coverage as barriers according to national poll results rel...cing a problem. Those polled say lack of insurance coverage (87%) and concerns about the cost of treatment (81%) are important reasons not to seek help from a m...New strategy aims to halve malaria deaths by 2010
...a. The campaign achieved the global target for net coverage in one week. Programmes currently focused on single diseases should now create linkages at national, district, and community level, write the authors. They urge a shift in malaria control strategies to maximise opportunities for bringing improved hea...Epilepsy guidelines will improve treatment and access
...elines also give new urgency to the need to expand coverage of all epilepsy medications," Mr. Hargis concluded "Treatment decisions for epilepsy need to be made by informed physicians in partnership with their patients and not by Congress, HMOs [health maintenance organizations] or insurance companies."...Prudent-layperson laws help get insurance coverage for emergency room visits
...who had acute chest pain might be denied insurance coverage because the pain turned out to come from heartburn... that some insurers make it a policy to first deny coverage and agree to pay only after the claim is refiled or a request is made for reconsideration. In North...Improvements in prescribing medications for hypertension results in better outcomes and cost savings
...d that the proportion of seniors without insurance coverage has increased in recent years, as well. Michael A. Fischer, M.D., M.S., and Jerry Avorn, M.D., from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, analyzed medication use patterns in 133,624 hypertensive patients in a state drug assist...Study reveals high suicide rates among young people in India
...ause of death in the Vellore study ensure that the coverage is good and the data are gathered prospectively and validated periodically... We believe that the rates reported here are the highest yet. This study should be done in other parts of India. The high suicide rates emphasise the need to recognise adole...Niche and higher margin esters to counter price erosion and commoditization
...ipants an overview, summary, challenges and latest coverage of World Fatty Esters Market - then send an email to Julia Paulson North American Corporate Communications at jpaulson@frost.com with the following information: Full name, Company Name, Title, Contact Tel Number, Contact Fax Number, Email. Upon re...National study: Health care access for poor children improves, but gap in care for uninsured grows
...and federal initiatives to expand health insurance coverage for low-income children and a strong economy. But,... researchers write, "children who remained without coverage in the late 1990s appeared to experience worsening access to care." "We already have evidence of sta...New study supports use of PET scans in early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
...enefits of early diagnosis, the issue of insurance coverage for PET diagnosis of AD has become a focal point of discussion among legislators, researchers in the nuclear medicine field, other physicians, and the general public. A study appearing in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine identifies...Implanted defibrillators not covered for half of patients who could benefit, study finds
...ar period. But had those patients all tried to get coverage for an ICD under Medicare, 80 of them would have b... the debate over whether Medicare should alter its coverage criteria for ICDs. The National Institute of Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Sudden Cardiac Death i...