As Americans mark breast cancer awareness month, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius today released a new report, Health Insurance Reform and Breast Cancer: Making the Health Care System Work for Women. The report details how health insurance reform will help women diagnosed with breast cancer and is available now at www.HealthReform.gov.
“Thousands of [...]

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has awarded $1.95 million in grants to 17 health care delivery organizations working to implement more cost-effective care for the uninsured through outreach and education, prevention, and medical management. The grants range from $55,000 to $95,000.
“State residents who remain uninsured despite the historic gains made under the [...]

The King Center will officially launch the 2009 MLK Birthday Observance January 10, 2009 by hosting and co-sponsoring an exciting new program with life-saving potential, “The Health & Wellness Forum.” The program, which will be held at locations within the King Historic Site, is free of charge to the public.
The Health and Wellness Forum, co-sponsored [...]

Health Dialog Services Corporation announced that it has again received full patient and practitioner-oriented accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for disease management services for asthma, coronary heart disease, COPD, diabetes, and heart failure. This three-year renewed accreditation is the highest level of recognition for disease management awarded by NCQA. Health [...]

Health Dialog Services Corporation announced that it has again received full patient and practitioner-oriented accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for disease management services for asthma, coronary heart disease, COPD, diabetes, and heart failure. This three-year renewed accreditation is the highest level of recognition for disease management awarded by NCQA. Health [...]

prescription drugs are the first choice for medical intervention in treating 88 percent of patients suffering chronic conditions. The 50 percent of Americans treated for a chronic condition account for 96 percent of all prescription drug spending and 75 percent of all medical costs. A proprietary new pharmacy model developed over three years by Medco [...]

Kaiser Permanente is the only health plan in California to earn excellent, four-star ratings in the 2009 Edition Healthcare Quality Report Card from the California Office of the Patient Advocate (OPA).
The report card results, announced today by the California OPA, also show Kaiser Permanente Northern California and Southern California receiving the highest scores overall in [...]

For the first time since the State of California began issuing its Health Care Quality Report Card eight years ago, a health plan received four out of four stars for meeting national standards of care. At the same time, three HMOs received lower ratings this year in patient satisfaction, according to the California Office of [...]