A Robust Year for Healthcare PR
The national healthcare act and its new regulations are just one issue benefiting the public relations industry over the past year. PR firms and their client’s grapple with numerous heath related issues according to 2011 O’Dwyer’s healthcare rankings.
Texas Women’s Health Federal Funding In Jeopardy
The federal government will withdraw funding for a Texas program providing more than 130,000 low-income women which preventive health care, including birth control and lifesaving cancer screenings because Planned Parenthood clinics are not allowed to participate in the program.
Dallas Doctor Arrested for Alleged Role in $375 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
Doctor Jacques Roy of Rockwall, TX and five owners of home health-care agencies were arrested on charges that they fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid nearly $375 million in what authorities described as the largest case of its kind.
HHS Unveils Requirements For Consumer
The Obama administration has unveiled final regulations detailing the new health insurance summaries that the federal health law requires plans to give to consumers to help them make informed coverage choices.
Alzheimer’s Research Gets Funding Boost
The Obama administration announced plans Tuesday for a two-year, $156 million cash infusion for Alzheimer’s research and care. The money will help solidify a still-developing national plan to better treat and even prevent the illness by 2025.
HHS Denies Texas Claim to Phase in Medical Loss Ratio
The Department of Health and Human Services has denied Texas a waiver to phase in the medical loss ratio rule under the health care reform law.
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