Community Benefit
Enrollment in consumer-directed health plans grew by 22 percent in 2010, according to a study commissioned by the American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations.
The commander of the American Legion is urging Congress to pass a bill that would allow military veterans to pay for non-combat-related medical care received at VA hospitals with their Medicare coverage.
The American Health Care Association, the National Center for Assisted Living and LeadingAge, a Washington, D.C.-based association of nonprofits focused on quality of life for America's aging population, have negotiated an agreement with the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation that exempts these facilities from video licensing fees.
The use of palliative and hospice care has increased nationwide, according to a report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project, but there is still a disconnect between what patients want for end-of-life care and what kind of care they get.
United States Life Insurance, a subsidiary of AIG, has agreed to pay $760,000 in restitution and fines in a settlement with Massachusetts for selling and marketing illegal health insurance products to consumers.
Enrollment in managed Medicaid plans is on the rise, according to Mark Farrah Associates, a Kennebunk, Me.-based data aggregator and publisher of health plan market data.
Long-term care costs are still rising, but not as much as other goods and services, according to John Hancock Financial by LifePlans.
People with low incomes or chronic health problems who enroll in high-deductible health plans are at no more risk for cutting back on needed healthcare than other people who enroll in the plans, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Whenever I'm in Canada I enjoy reading what the newspapers have to say about health care. Today's Montreal Gazette leads with "Hip surgery wait times fail seniors" and continues inside with "Waits longest in cities for seniors' hip surgery."
While many employers expect an increase in the cost of providing benefits to employees, two-thirds of them responding to a new survey from Deloitte are making no immediate changes to their benefit programs, signaling a "wait and see" approach for final healthcare reform provisions that will likely reduce plan design flexibility.