“CIGNA and Humana are driving innovation through this unique alliance,” added Thomas Liston, Humana senior vice president of senior products.
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Medicare
Study Suggests Low-Consuming Medicare Beneficiaries With Chronic Disease Are More Costly to Program.
One out of every four Medicare dollars is spent on beneficiaries with diabetes, with a high percentage attributed to tertiary illness caused by unmanaged or under-managed diabetes.
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We believe that managed care can be an integral part in coordinating high quality healthcare services…
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The New York Times tackled this issue yesterday in an article by Robert Pear that attempts to explain how technically it might be possible for the Senate bill to be able to reduce the deficit by $132 billion in the next 10 years while adding nine years to the life of Medicares hospital trust fund.
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“Americans don’t want taxpayer funding for abortions and are opposed to a first-ever, mandatory abortion tax. Knowing this, the bill’s proponents have rushed it through the Senate at a time when Americans are focused on celebrating Christmas with their families.”
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“We’re finding that people with disabilities aren’t getting the same level of preventive care every day as people without disabilities,” says Dr. Brian Armour, lead health scientist at CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. “It’s important to realize that people with disabilities can be healthy if barriers to care are reduced.”
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The award selections were based on the 2010 estimated cost-sharing comparisons conducted in over 120 cities during October 2009 by HealthMetrix Research Inc.
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The program engages the brain’s natural plasticity (the brain’s ability to rewire itself) to improve basic brain function.
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Congress didn’t intend the SGR to produce large savings.
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