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1. The Effects Of Unequal Access To Health Insurance For Same-Sex Couples In California Inequities in marriage laws and domestic partnership benefits may have implications for who bears the burden of health care costs. We examined a recent period in California to illuminate disparities in health insurance coverage faced by same-sex couples. Partnered gay men are less than half as likely (42 percent) as married heterosexual men to get employer-sponsored […]...
2. Relatives Of Individuals With Autism Tend To Display Abnormal Eye Movements Abnormal eye movements and other sensorimotor and neurobehavioral impairments appear common in unaffected family members of individuals with autism, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....
3. Share of Cost, Medicare Doesn’t Work As Well For Younger, Disabled Beneficiaries As It Does For Older Enrollees [Web First] Medicare is not working as well for its eight million disabled beneficiaries under age sixty-five as it is for its older beneficiaries. We report on a 2008 survey that found significant differences between the two Medicare populations, with the younger group experiencing more problems of cost and access. Even with the Medicare Part D prescription […]...
4. Calif., R.I., Move To Strengthen Review Of Health Insurance Rates; Ind. Weighs Changes In State Employee Health Plans The Los Angeles Times’ Blog: “Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger moved Wednesday to implement a major element of the new national healthcare overhaul, seeking a $1-million federal grant to strengthen the state’s review of health insurance rates. Much of the money would pay for actuaries to evaluate premium hikes sought by insurers. …...
5. California’s Role In Ensuring That The Potential Of Health Reform Becomes Reality The fifty states will play a critical role in implementing the Affordable Care Act, and California is one of the states at the forefront of reform. The act can provide coverage to millions of currently uninsured Californians and offers important benefits in terms of more-affordable coverage, improved access to services, and better health outcomes. As […]...
6. Emergency Access Advisory Committee (EAAC) Meeting – July 8 The Federal Communications Commission will hold the next EAAC meeting on July 8, 2011 from 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. in Washington, DC. The EAAC works to determine the most effective and efficient technologies and methods to enable access to Next Generation 911 emergency services by individuals with disabilities. This link opens a PDF document. This information is also in […]...
7. Projecting The Impact Of The Affordable Care Act On California The Affordable Care Act is the most fundamental legislative transformation of the US health care system in forty years. This analysis estimates that the act will provide health insurance for an additional 3.4 million people in California in 2016. This will mean that nearly 96 percent of documented residents of California under age sixty-five will be insured. […]...
8. Madison Nation Life Insurance Company Offers Dental Insurance With ShareOfCost.com Madison Nation Life Insurance Company Offers Dental Insurance With ShareOfCost.com...
9. California – Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) will direct the fiscal intermediary Fiscal Year 2010-11 State Budget Reimbursement Contingency: Since the State of California did not enact the fiscal year 2010-11 budget by June 30, 2010, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) will direct the fiscal intermediary, HP Enterprise Services, to implement provisions pursuant to state law, to continue processing and adjudicating claims as outlined below. HP […]...
10. Medicaid-funded ADHD Treatment For Children Misses The Mark The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 expands Medicare benefits to scores of previously uninsured individuals including many of our nation’s children. While access to treatment is laudable, the quality of such treatment is the subject of an article in the December issue of the Journal of the American Academy […]...
11. Link Between Childhood Trauma And Higher Rates Of Mental Health Problems New research has shown that children’s risk for learning and behavior problems and obesity rises in correlation to their level of trauma exposure, says the psychiatrist at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital who oversaw the study....
12. Share of Cost Question: Who do I call for an over charging dentist that lied about my insurance paying? If you have a PPO or Indemnity Plan: Since these are plans where you can go outside of network or choose your own dentist the insurance company is out of the lope. Even though a dentist may call on coverages, it is up to you to make sure you are covered. You can do this […]...
13. 19,643 Surgeries Performed With Just 0.2% Death Rate In Resource-Limited Settings Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) reports that it performed nearly 20,000 surgical procedures with a death rate of just 0.2% in resource-limited settings between 2001 and 2008, showing that with appropriate minimal standards, surgical care can be provided safely and cheaply, says an article in Archives of Surgery, a JAMA/Archives journal....
14. Share of Cost, New Rules to Require Equal Visitation Rights for All Hospital Patients Share of Cost, New Rules to Require Equal Visitation Rights for All Hospital Patients: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued new rules for Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals that protect patients’ right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex domestic partner.  The rules require hospitals […]...
15. After Midterm Elections, Changes Are In Store States’ budget woes continue, and one way many newly elected Republicans would like to address them is to pare back Medicaid. Several different options are already on the table....