eHealth, an online private health insurance exchange, has selected and inked a contract to integrate Intuit’s TurboTax (INTU), with its online health insurance comparison and enrollment tools. Following completion of the ...
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US-based UPMC Health Plan has inked an agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to offer its health insurance coverage through Qualified Health Plans (QHP) on the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace. Under the ...
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Cook Medical has announced that effective October 1, 2013, its Zilver PTX drug-eluting peripheral stent qualifies for new-technology add-on payments under Medicare’s hospital inpatient prospective payment system. In order to qualify ...
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North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance has partnered with Aon Hewitt to offer free support and access to a national network of Medicare insurance products to the senior African American community through Aon Hewitt Navigators. Under the ...
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Second Sight Medical Products has secured Medicare coverage for its Argus II retinal prosthesis system (Argus II) designed to treat the patients affected with blindness from the untreatable orphan disease retinitis pigmentosa in both the US ...
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Global professional services company has entered a web broker entity agreement with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the US, which will allow employers to connect eligible populations to the federally managed exchange. ...
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The Visa credit card outfit has certainly got the retail scene abuzz with news it will launch a "digital wallet" in Australia by Christmas. The e-wallet, dubbed V.me, will henceforth store all your cards in digital form, probably on your ...
The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has launched the national disability insurance scheme named DisabilityCare Australia to assist people suffering with permanent and significant disabilities. Funded by the Commonwealth and state ...
Results from a recent survey suggest that the industrial sector is generally optimistic about its growth prospects for the coming year, but sees an array of regulatory and policy-related issues as threats to its continued recovery. These ...
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Demand for disinfectant and antimicrobial chemicals in the U.S. is forecast to rise 6.1 percent annually to $1.6 billion in 2017. A rebound in building construction activity, in conjunction with an improving U.S. economy, will drive strong ...
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US-based health care benefits company Aetna is planning to stop issuing health care products to individual consumers in California at the end of 2013. The health insurer, which notified California's insurance regulator about its impending ...
Saladax Biomedical, US-based developer of diagnostic tests that optimize a patient's exposure to chemotherapy, has been certified as a registered CLIA Laboratory from the Office of Clinical Standards and Quality (OCSQ), a division of The ...
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Global technology and financial services company for clinical trials Clinverse has rolled out its new tool ClinSpend, to fulfill the reporting needs to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for Sunshine Act. Dubbed as Open ...
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You have a few choices: Ask your doctor to prescribe a different drug from your insurance company's formulary. If that's not possible or your doctor says it's not a good idea, have your doctor petition your insurance company to cover the ...
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With nightmarish superbugs threatening the lives of patients and healthcare workers, hospitals are taking considerable precautions to track who is and who isn't washing their hands. For example, Summerville Medical Center, a 94-bed ...
Tags: Sensor Tag, Camera, Hand Washing