POSTS TAGGED AS health insurance

UPMC’s Telemedicine Example

Telemedicine
So much of telemedicine thinking focuses on how to reach underserved populations, like elders at home, and patients living in [MORE]

Issues and Insurers

Health Insurance
Becker’s Hospital Review is a useful source for healthcare business news. Moreover, it really excels at “list making”—i.e. stating [MORE]

Walmart’s “Blue Light” Special for Health Care

Walmart
We may need an update on the line “what’s good for GM is good for the country.”  Walmart might [MORE]

Health Industry Issues in 2011

In this downloadable report, PriceWaterhouse Coopers outlines what its Health Research Institute thinks will be the major healthcare economic [MORE]

Wellness’ Effect on Health

Vitality Group, a wellness branch of South Africa’s largest private insurer Discovery Health (Capetown), has seen positive [MORE]

Dial-a-Doc

A California insurance brokerage is now offering small business employers a low cost alternative for [MORE]

Medical Bankruptcies: “Unless You Are Warren Buffett…”

 The mortgage melt-down and personal bankruptcy crisis may not be due fully to borrowers’ risky behavior.  A recent study reports [MORE]

Plan to Cut Health Care Spending

The Commonwealth Fund of New York has posted its plan for a National Health Insurance Exchange-similar in approach to the [MORE]

Wellness Insurance

The National Business Coalition for Health has published the results of its 2008 survey assessing wellness programs among 103 health [MORE]

Health Insurance Census

The US Census Bureau recently published statistics for 2005 on health insurance coverage by county in the US.  The data [MORE]