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Anthem Blue Cross, California's largest for-profit health insurer, is raising premiums for individual insurance policies by 30-39 percent on March 1, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. Click to continue »In what may be an unprecedented prosecution, Anne Mitchell was scheduled to stand trial Feb. 8 in a Texas court for "misuse of official information," a third-degree felony charge, after reporting a physician last April to the Texas Medical Board for what she deemed improper prescribing and surgical procedures, according to a story in The New York Times. Click to continue »A Colorado physicians' group has settled allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that the group participated in price-fixing, according to a news release by the FTC. Click to continue »The healthcare industry, including hospitals, ASCs and physicians' offices, added 14,500 jobs from Dec. 2009-Jan. 2010, according to a news release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Click to continue »Rep. Betsy Markey (D-Colo.) and Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.) will introduce legislation to repeal the special anti-trust exemption for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance companies, according to a news release by Rep. Markey's office. Click to continue »Gastroenterology Consultants, based in Reno, Nev., has opened its new clinic in Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare in Carson City, Nev., according to a report in the Nevada Appeal. Click to continue »The National Institutes of Health has convened a panel to identify ways to further increase the use and quality of colorectal cancer screening in the United States, according to an NIH news release. Click to continue »All but one of the nation's largest health insurers reported significant commercial enrollment losses in 2009 and all of them are cautious about growth in 2010, according to the insurers' recently issued annual reports. Click to continue » |
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