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- Insurers can't comply, official says
- Could vaccine forms spook parents?
- Over-billing: just FL culture?
- Patients decry C-section rate
- State agencies on trial today
- Some defend DOH secrecy
- Uninsured Mexicans find care
- Patient or fetus -- whose rights prevail?
| Insurers can't comply, official says Posted: By Carol Gentry 5/5/2010 © Health News Florida A “huge” number of insurance products being sold in Florida fail to meet spending requirements under the new federal health law, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said Tuesday. Under the mandate that 80 percent or more of the premium go to patients' care, he said, "we won't have an insurance industry at all." |
| Could vaccine forms spook parents? Posted: By Jim Saunders 2/17/2010 © Health News Florida State Rep. Kevin Ambler says he wants to make sure parents have adequate information about vaccinations that children need to enroll in school. But doctors say it could scare parents away, leaving kids unprotected. |
| Over-billing: just FL culture? Posted: By Cynthia Washam 2/16/2010 © Health News Florida Brevard County’s largest medical group is close to settling a complaint that it overbilled Medicare $8 million by giving cancer patients more expensive treatments than they needed. Is this a case of fraud, as the Justice Department maintains, or an example of Florida's overheated style of medical treatment? |
| Posted: 2/12/2010 © Health News Florida Advocates for women's health are hosting a seminar today and Saturday on the alarming rate of unnecessary Cesarean sections in Miami, where the surgery accounts for more than half of births. Meanwhile, the Orlando Sentinel reports on another patient-education effort: on the dangers of MRIs for pacemaker patients. |
| Posted: By Sammy Mack 2/9/2010 © Health News Florida A landmark lawsuit that seeks to rewrite Florida's Medicaid policy resumed today in Miami, with plaintiffs charging that state agencies' low pay for doctors and dentists and tendency to switch plans without notice often leave children with no access to care. A related story in Florida Today shows the struggle of dentists who take Medicaid. |
| Posted: By Carol Gentry 2/8/2010 © Health News Florida The state Department of Health's decision to withhold information on its consumer web site about pending actions against health professionals -- including arrests --- is entirely appropriate, say attorneys who defend doctors. The public's reaction was different. As one woman said, "I was horrified." |
| Posted: 2/2/2010 © Orlando Sentinel When Josefina de la Rosa was diagnosed with cancer in 2007, she could not afford treatment. In stepped nonprofit Casa de Mexico, which finds doctors to help. |
| Patient or fetus -- whose rights prevail? Posted: 1/26/2010 © Associated Press The case of Samantha Burton, who was forced to remain in the hospital for the welfare of her fetus, is drawing attention to the question of whether pregnancy deprives patients of their rights. |
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