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AIS's Health Business
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May
9, 2008
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"Health
insurance companies are proposing new pricing methods
for high-priced prescription drugs, asking patients
to shell out hundreds and even thousands of dollars
of their earnings for medications they need to survive."
This shifts costs from health insurers "onto
backs of struggling low- and middle-income families."
—
New York State Senate Democratic Leader Malcolm A.
Smith, upon the introduction of state legislation
that would prohibit health plans and PBMs from implementing
Rx drug plans with a Tier 4 category for expensive
specialty drugs.
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9%
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…of
U.S. workers drink alcohol in ways that contribute
to absenteeism and higher health care costs, according
to a new report from The George Washington University
Medical Center.
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People
On the Move |
LifeCare,
Inc., a provider of specialty care services, hired
Chuck Green as chief marketing officer. Green
was the principal of his own full-service marketing
communications consulting business…Donal Quinn
has been appointed new head of the diagnostics division
of the Siemens Healthcare Sector. Quinn was executive
vice president and chief customer officer of the diagnostics
division. He succeeds Jim Reid-Anderson, who
on May 1 became the new CEO of this sector. |
Never-Event Payment Policies:
How Major Health Plans Are Getting Tough on Preventable
Hospital Errors
An Audioconference — May 13, 2008
Learn how to implement and enforce never-event payment
methods — from Aetna's chief medical director for
national accounts, medical director of Anthem Blue Cross
Blue Shield of Virginia, and The Leapfrog Group. Click
here to register today. |
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Implementing
'Medical Homes' To Improve Patient Care and the Bottom
Line: Steps that Health Plans and Providers Should Take
An audioconference
May 21, 2008
Register
today.
Health
Plan Pay-for-Performance Programs: The Next Generation
P4P program trends and case studies
Click
here
Senators
Rockefeller, Hatch and Wyden and Congressmen Stark, Waxman
and Camp to Speak at Health Reform Conference July 10-11.
Click
here.
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