Health Happenings for August 5, 2014
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Mon-Vale Health Resources' Healthy Directions health resource center is sponsoring a Third Anniversary Celebration from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday in recognition of its relocation to the Finleyville Giant Eagle, 3701 Brownsville Road, Union. Free ...
Siouxland Matters
Employer-Based Health Insurance 'Cheaper' Than Government-Sponsored ...
Forbes
Every so often in punditry land there appears a column so egregiously flawed that it makes a perfect platform for a homework assignment in undergraduate health-economics courses. With a straight face and little commentary, one mandates students to ...
For-profit home health agencies blasted in new analysisModernHealthcare.com (blog)
CBS Local
Health Insurers Raise 2015 Florida Exchange Rates
CBS Local
Tasha Bradley, a spokeswoman for the federal Department of Health and Human Services, issued a statement saying: “This is just the beginning of the process and as we saw last year all across the country, proposed rates were a high water mark and final ...
Study: Obamacare helping more youth to get mental health treatmentMSNBC
The Relationship Between Taxes and Health Care: 5 Things You Need to KnowHuffington Post
State's federal exchange health plan premiums to rise in 2015Florida Today
MiamiHerald.com -St. George Daily Spectrum
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vtdigger.org
State will replace CGI, health exchange vendor
BurlingtonFreePress.com
The marketplace — called Vermont Health Connect — has struggled since its launch Oct. 1. CGI missed many deadlines to complete processes and make fixes, although state officials and independent analysts have noted the unreasonableness of the ...
Vermont changes vendor for troubled health care websiteBrattleboro Reformer
Vt. Dumps Health Web ContractorValley News
State drops health tech firmBarre Montpelier Times Argus
Vermont Public Radio -Watchdog.org
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NY1
New York patient 'unlikely to have Ebola,' Health Department says. He remains ...
Washington Post
[This post has been updated multiple times.] A man who was tested for Ebola at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital on Monday is “unlikely” to have the virus, the city's health department said. “After consultation with CDC and Mount Sinai, the Health ...
Health Officials Reiterate NYC Patient is Unlikely to Have EbolaNY1
NY man unlikely to have Ebola: NYC Health Dept.Politico
NYC health commissioner: Unlikely man has EbolaFox News
New York Times -News & Observer -NPR (blog)
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WPLN
Community Health Systems pays $98M to settle DOJ claims
The Tennessean
Franklin-based hospital company Community Health Systems will pay a total of more than $98 million to settle a Department of Justice investigation into the company's billing practices. About $88 million of the settlement will go to resolve claims made ...
Community Health paying $98M to settle US claims of improper billing of ...Minneapolis Star Tribune
Community Health paying $98M to settle claimsShelbyville Times-Gazette
WPLN
Community Health Paying $98M to Settle US Claims
ABC News
The Justice Department and Community Health announced the settlement Monday. The government alleges that the company admitted patients to the hospital when it wasn't medically necessary and then billed Medicare, Medicaid and the military's Tricare ...
Community Health Systems pays $98M to settle DOJ claimsThe Tennessean
Politico
NY man unlikely to have Ebola: NYC Health Dept.
Politico
“After consultation with CDC and Mount Sinai, the Health Department has concluded that the patient is unlikely to have Ebola. Specimens are being tested for common causes of illness and to definitively exclude Ebola,” the health department said in a ...
New York patient 'unlikely to have Ebola,' Health Department saysWashington Post
Patients' Symptoms Raise Concern About Ebola in New YorkNew York Times
Mount Sinai patient who traveled to West Africa tested for Ebola virusWABC-TV
My Fox Boston -WCVB Boston
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Obamacare Leads to Surge in Mental-Health Treatment
TIME
A provision in the health care reform law allowing parents to keep their adult children on their health-insurance plans has led to millions more young people with mental-health and substance-abuse problems getting treatment, according to a new study.
More Young Adults Getting Mental Health Care Under Obamacare: StudyU.S. News & World Report
9000 Cook County Jail Inmates Enroll in Obamacare Amid Mental Health CrisisNBC Chicago (blog)
St. George Daily Spectrum
NC scores $4.7 million in ACA grants for health care services
News & Observer
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced some of the grants Monday and the rest last week. The recipients are the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services and community health organizations in Durham, Carrboro and other ...
Watch out for health care scamsSt. George Daily Spectrum
Orlando Health practice gets "medical home" designationOrlando Sentinel
Community Health Center gets $250000 grant to boost behavioral health servicesMiddletown Press
Appleton Post Crescent -hays Post
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