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Study shows cost savings behind bariatric surgery
jerry submitted, created time 2 months 1 week (money.cnn.com)
Insurance companies do usually cover the costs of bariatric surgery, they would start now: A new study shows that, among morbidly obese patients, having a stomach stapling or an intestinal modification causes them to shed insurance claims as well as pounds.
The study looked at the insurance claims of 7200 morbidly obese patients, half of whom had had the surgery and half of whom had not 
American Company Tries Western-Style Hospitals in China
kavin submitted, created time 4 months 4 weeks (buzz.yahoo.com)
An American company is trying to popularize Western-style hospitals that cater to the elite in China. But it faces significant hurdles when it comes to getting the Chinese to pay for its services.
Chindex International, a Bethesda, Md., company featured in today’s Washington Post, has opened hospitals and clinics where foreign physicians and some of China’s top doctors charge as much as several hundred dollars for a single visit. That’s steep compared to the $10 or $20 per-visit charge at state-owned hospitals
Dissatisfaction covers doctors' careers even as paperwork covers their desks!
Darkfrog submitted, created time 5 months 5 days (www.nytimes.com)
Want to know what's it's actually like to be a doctor? I tell you, this article makes me feel a little better about not going to medical school. If the medical dramas showed just how much time doctors spent getting procedures approved and just how handcuffed they feel, we'd have a bigger shortage than we do.
Genetic Information Nondescrimination Act passes!!
Darkfrog submitted, created time 6 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)
The Genetic Information Nondescrimination Act has passed in the U.S. government. Now employers and insurance companies are forbidden on the federal level to use the results of genetic testing to hire, fire or give or deny insurance. Basically, this means that the movie Gataca won't happen in real life.
Genetic Information Nondescrimination Act poised to pass
Darkfrog submitted, created time 6 months 4 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
The U.S. Congress is preparing a bill that would forbid employers and insurance companies from denying or terminating employment or coverage based on the results of genetic tests. Federal law already prohibits group policies, such as those attained through one's employer or other organization, from discriminating using genetic information, but this bill would apply accross the board.
This bill is likely to pass, and I think it will remove one of the main fears associated with genetic testing (finally finding out that one has a 40% chance of lung cancer is still there, though).
Genetic Discrimination: No Longer Just Science Fiction
Sue Wu submitted, created time 8 months 3 weeks (www.themoneytimes.com)
You might have caught the article in the Sunday New York Times or today's segments on CNN highlighting a serious form of discrimination, the improper use of genetic information by a person's employer or insurer.
More advanced cancer seen in uninsured Americans
DanyC submitted, created time 9 months 4 days (www.reuters.com)
Uninsured Americans and those in a government health program for the poor are far more likely to have advanced diseases when diagnosed with cancer than those with private coverage, researchers said on Sunday.
The study published in the medical journal Lancet Oncology also showed blacks and to a lesser extent Hispanics, regardless of insurance status, were more likely than whites to have advanced cancer when first diagnosed.
Child health fight grim sign for broader U.S. reforms
crazy submitted, created time 1 year 5 days (www.reuters.com)
Washington is abuzz with predictions of health care system reforms after the 2008 presidential elections but an unexpectedly bitter impasse over insuring poor children is a telling reminder that few things stir up partisan passions like health care.
Researchers complain of privacy rules
jane2007 submitted, created time 1 year 1 week (www.nature.com)
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule is designed to protect patients by ensuring that groups don't have total access to information, and must take steps to ensure the privacy of their records.But researchers have their opinions aout it. Many researchers complain that research has been made more difficult by HIPAA.
Do frozen human ova remain viable? Different voices disagree.
Hecate submitted, created time 1 year 4 weeks (www.nature.com)
Scientists are debating whether the practice of freezing human ova should be considered experimental or whether it should be deemed standard. (This distinction, pedantic though it may seem, has some consequences for health insurance.) The debate covers not only the best method for freezing eggs (slow-freeze vs. fast, in layman's terms) but the circumstances under which it is appropriate to do so at all.
Many women choose to freeze their eggs because of illness. For example, some forms of radiation and chemotherapy can cause infertility
Medicare will not cover stents for neck arteries
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nytimes.com)
Heart stents made the news recently, but this article discusses stents that are placed in neck arteries to prevent stroke. The issue isn't whether or not they work but who will pay for them.
Dr. Barry T. Katzen, director of the Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute in Miami, says that this will actually help research: By linking their willingness to pay to the efficacy of clinical trials, he says, they will influence doctors to be more stringent with those trials.
He sure sounds as though he's making the best of it. Thoughts?
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