How will new cancer treatment care guides help patients navigate the healthcare system?
Future topics will include lower back pain, ADHD and type 2 diabetes.
Future topics will include lower back pain, ADHD and type 2 diabetes.
Beginning in 2014, nearly 1.1 million Ohioans will be eligible for tax credits to offset some of their health insurance costs, according to a report from a liberal advocacy group.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
About 86 percent of Ohio’s small businesses will be eligible for a tax credit that’s aimed at helping employers pay for their workers’ health insurance coverage, according to a report from a left-leaning consumer group. The catch is, a company can’t have more than 25 employees to be considered a small business. Businesses will be […]
Lowe's Companies Inc. looked at what it was paying for heart treatments across the country and didn't like what it saw, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. So the home-improvement retailer went shopping, choosing the Cleveland Clinic. Could this practice become a model for health care reform?
Laid-off workers and dependents who were the first to receive federal COBRA subsidies to help pay for health care coverage will lost those subsidies today.
From 2000 to 2009, family health care premiums in Ohio rose about seven times faster than workers' earnings. A report released Thursday notes that the average annual health insurance premium rose from $6,596 to $12,145 – an increase of 84.1 percent. Meanwhile, median earnings rose from $25,017 to $27,936 – an increase of just 11.7 percent.
Harry and Louise -- the television advertisement couple credited with helping to defeat health care reform during the Clinton era -- are back, this time talking up health care reform. The ad campaign that starts airing this weekend is a collaboration between consumer advocate Families USA and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the major trade association for the drug industry.
Families USA says 85,000 more Ohioans are in families that could pay at least 10 percent of their pre-tax income for health care this year than last year. The consumer health advocate called the increase a dramatic climb.
The numbers from Families USA mirror some of the other recent estimates. Its report says 28.8 percent of Ohioans younger than 65 were without insurance from 2007 to 2008. Of that group, about 71 percent went without insurance for more than six months.
About half of modest-income Ohioans who don't have jobs also don't have health care insurance. Yet only one in four unemployed workers in the moderate income group nationwide receives health coverage through Medicaid or some other public program.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Ohio could get an additional $2.8 billion to bolster its Medicaid program as part of the economic recovery package being considered by Congress. That money could generate another $2.5 billion economic impact on the state, according to an advocacy group.