New York Is Top Vacation Travel Destination For Doctors
Doctors today are busier and more stressed than ever. When they can find time to get away for a relaxing vacation, where do these affluent, high-level professionals with discerning tastes for quality and value go?
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Examining Ways To Reduce Health Care Costs
CBO discussed approaches that could reduce total health care spending while still maintaining quality care.
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Research Shows Dramatic Savings For Medicaid
New research proves that a dose of hands-on health care training can transform parents' abilities to care for common childhood ailments at home and save Medicaid millions of dollars annually.
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Immigrants Move To Upstate New York To Work In Health Care Field
Immigrants who moved to upstate New York are predominately highly educated individuals who obtained jobs in the health care sector, science and research fields.
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Gaps In Pediatricians' Professional Values
Future pediatricians underestimate the value of teaching and research in their careers.
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Zagat, WellPoint To Allow Customers To Rank Physicians
Chicago Tribune examined a partnership between Zagat Survey and WellPoint that will allow consumers to rate physicians.
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Health Care Spending For Younger People Growing Faster
While the cost of health care in the U.S. for people age 65 and older is more than three times that for younger people, health care costs for seniors are growing at a slower rate than they are for younger people.
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Program Emphasizes Important Role Of Nurses In Health Care
Nurses are a key information resource for new parents and often spend the most time with families in the hospital following the birth of a child.
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Medical Tourism Offers Hope To Control Health Care Costs
One of the most promising solutions for our nation's soaring health care costs may be found in sending our patients outside the country for care,
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Controlling Health Care Costs Key To Budget Reform
American families already know - that the most important fiscal problem facing our country is the skyrocketing costs of health care.
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Introducing Students To Need, Advantages Of Health Care Careers
Pennsylvania's newest celebrity encourages young people to consider the many opportunities in the health care industry.
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Small Businesses, Kansas Employers Offering Worker Wellness Programs
Editorials summarize recent newspaper coverage of efforts by employers to implement wellness programs and other health initiatives for employees.
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Caregivers Also Face Health And Drug Adherence Risks
As many caregivers put the needs of those they care for first, their own health tends to take a backseat.
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Caregivers Increasingly File Lawsuits Against Employers Alleging Discrimination
The number of lawsuits stemming from family responsibilities discrimination against employees who have family care-giving responsibilities at home, has increased.
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Grassley Proposes One-Year Halt To Medicare Physician Reimbursement Rate Cuts
Senate Finance Committee favors a one-year, rather than a two-year, suspension of a 10% reduction in Medicare physician reimbursements scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2008.
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About 63% Of US Residents Paying More For Health Care
About 63% of U.S. residents reported paying higher health care costs this year than they did in 2006.
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Senate Passes Labor-HHS-Education Bill
Senate voted to pass Labor-HHS-Education bill.
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Exploring Relationship Between Decreasing Household Income, Quality Of Health
Experts examines the effects that increased poverty rates, decreasing personal income for all but the most affluent and widening income inequality have on the U.S. health care system.
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WellPoint, Zagat Survey To Create Physician Ranking Guide
WellPoint will release an online physician ranking guide based on patient input to more than one million members.
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Cutting MA Plan Payments To Prevent Physician Payment Cut
Senate Finance Committee outlined a $30 billion Medicare package that could prevent a scheduled 10% Medicare physician reimbursement rate cut
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Hospitals Required To Disclose Prices For Services
Several states have begun requiring hospitals to disclose prices paid for services.
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Record Number Of Students Apply To Medical Schools
The number of medical school applications from black and Hispanic males increased by 9.2% in 2007.
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Clinton Plans To Expand Paid Family Leave
Hillary Rodham Clinton released a plan that aims to combat workplace discrimination against pregnant women, expand paid family leave from work and increase funding for child care services.
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Red Cross To Support Employee Health While Reducing Costs
American Red Cross is joining the movement to create a more environmentally friendly workplace at more than 100 of its Biomedical Services offices nationwide.
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Five Tips To Help People Get The Most From Their Employee Benefits
For many companies, between now and January is open enrollment season, when most employers offer their employees the daunting task of reviewing and updating their benefits package.
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Healthy Hispanics In California Could Help Reduce State Health Care Costs
Inclusion of a few million more healthy, employed, low-service-use Latinos into the health insurance pool would provide a timely 'shock absorber' for the costs of the inevitable baby boomer crunch.
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Newspapers Examine Employers' Efforts To Reduce Health Care Costs
Several newspapers recently published articles about employers' efforts to control health care cost.
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Research Examines Why Few Blacks Become Doctors
Research examines definition of socioeconomic status in relation to health disparities and why few blacks become doctors.
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Smaller Class Sizes Could Lead To Health Care Savings
Reducing class sizes in the early grades of elementary school could be among the most cost-effective ways to reduce costs for health care and medical intervention.
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Medicaid Spending Increased By 10.7%
Medicaid spending increased by 10.7% in the first six months of 2007 -- the largest increase since 2001.
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UAW-GM Contract Reduces Health Plan Choices
The tentative contract between United Auto Workers and General Motors would reduce the number of health plans available to about 412,000 unionized workers.
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Survey Shows Compensation Of Professional Medical Interpreters
Results of a new survey offer insight into the steadily growing profession of medical interpreting.
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Workers Hold Pickets For Right To Improve Care
Healthcare workers at four nursing homes across Northern California conducted simultaneous informational pickets.
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Fatherhood Program Tackles Unemployment With 82% Employment Rate
OCSS has increased the number of Fatherhood participants who have obtained employment by eleven percent.
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US Faces Shortage Of Pediatric Subspecialists
Despite an increase in the number of specialty pediatricians over the past decade, there is a nationwide shortage of pediatric subspecialists.
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Disabilities Rising Among Workers
Employees need additional information about the likelihood of experiencing a disability and how to manage the accompanying financial consequences.
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Government Immigration Policy To Blame For Medical Unemployment
The threat of unemployment among UK medical graduates is being blamed on the failed computerised recruitment system.
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Why losing money may be more painful than you think
Losing money may be intrinsically linked with fear and pain in the brain, scientists have discovered.
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Task Force To Address Problems With Financial Stability Of Entitlement Programs
Senate Budget Committee introduced a bill that would require the next Congress to address problems with the long-term financial stability of Medicare.
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Health Care Spending Highest In Northeastern US
U.S. residents in the Northeast spend more on health care per capita than those in other areas of the nation.
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