COVID-19 has affected each health insurance company differently, but the industry remains mostly insulated from the virus’ growing toll. The big picture: Most of the big insurers have sidestepped massive coronavirus-related costs so far this year, due in large part to people putting off other care. And the companies that have had to pay more…
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In 2017, Walter Jordan wrote a memo to a federal judge from the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence. “Notice of Impending Death,” it said in a shaky hand. Jordan told the judge that Arizona corrections officials and Corizon Health, the state prison system’s private health care contractor at that time, delayed treating his cancer…
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WHN/A4M co-founders Robert Goldman and Ronald Klatz were recently involved in this study along with Gary Null, Luanne Pennesi, and Richard Gale of the Nutrition Institute of America, and William Faloon and Scott Fogle of the Life Extension Foundation. The study published in the HSOA Journal Of Alternative, Complementary & Integrative Medicine, was designed to…
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A coalition of local and regional health officials issued a “health information alert” on Friday regarding COVID-19. The alert is supported by Beth Charlton, president and CEO of Covenant HealthCare; Stephanie J. Duggan, regional president and CEO of Ascension St. Mary’s; Christina Harrington, health officer for the Saginaw County Health Department; Larry Johnson, health director…
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by: Chloe Gotsis, Office of the Attorney General Posted: Oct 28, 2021 / 05:44 PM EDT / Updated: Oct 28, 2021 / 05:44 PM EDT File Photo BOSTON, Mass. (MassGOV) – Attorney General Maura Healey announced that seven people have been indicted in connection with a coordinated scheme to collect reimbursement checks from Massachusetts health insurance companies…
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From medications to gloves to crutches, the strains of the global supply chain are hitting U.S. health care hard. Why it matters: Shortages of health care supplies can quickly jump from a nuisance to a life-or-death proposition. They indicate serious vulnerabilities in the U.S. health care supply chain. State of play: After seeing major supply…
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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the status of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccinations and his administration’s ongoing pandemic response in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, May 4, 2021. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The White House on Thursday unveiled a new plan to expand several federal health-insurance programs to lower costs…
Treating COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit for the past 19 months often reminds Paul Fuller, a registered nurse in Wenatchee, of his time in the U.S. Army. Fuller began his nursing career as an Army medic and spent 14 months deployed to Iraq, he said Thursday evening in a panel with other nurses…