Recent news of note: Report: Debt Collectors Work In Emergency Rooms, Demand Payment Before Patients Receive Care Abbott To Pay $1.6 Billion To Settle Depakote Probes Discrepancies on Medical Bills Can Leave a Credit Stain American Pain Foundation Shuts Down as Senators Launch Investigation of Prescription Narcotics Insurers back FDA plan for new drug category [...]
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News Roundup
Posted in Access to Medicines, Advocacy, Conflicts of Interest, Consumer Protection, Economics of Health Care, Ethics, Global Health, Health Care Marketing, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Healthcare Inequalities, Prescription drugs, Promotions, Tobacco control on 9 January 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As the new year starts, some ome items of note from near and far: The breast implant scandal strips away the glossy euphemisms of cosmetic surgery S. Korea approves Asia’s first anti-leukemia drug Nicotine Gum and Skin Patch Face New Doubt No Benefits for Sick Job Seekers: After battling leukemia, man is denied unemployment benefits Opinion: [...]
Health News Progress Report
Posted in Advocacy, Conflicts of Interest, Consumer Protection, Economics of Health Care, Ethics, Global Health, Health Care Marketing, Health Insurance, Military medicine, Promotions, State of Washington, Tobacco control on 17 August 2011 | 1 Comment »
Moving forward Regence fined $100K for denying women coverage [Washington] State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has fined Regence BlueShield $100,000 for denying contraceptive coverage to 984 women. Regence had covered the women’s use of an IUD, or intrauterine contraceptive device, but not the removal of it. When the women wanted to remove the device because [...]
