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Members with chronic conditions that put them at risk for high health care costs but don't fall into traditional disease management programs are learning how to manage their conditions through the ComplexCare program from Health Management Corp.
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A multidisciplinary care management program for young Medicaid beneficiaries with complex conditions has resulted in significant increases in members' use of effective treatments and services.
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Pancreatic cancer makes headlines when someone famous dies of the disease such as Luciano Pavarotti, the world-renowned opera singer that lost his fight with the disease in early September 2007.
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A newly diagnosed diabetic, we'll call him Mr. Smith, called in to Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Health Coach Connection because his doctor had told him he needed to undergo gastric bypass surgery if he was going to live another 10 years.
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Health care providers are among groups ethically and legally obligated to report suspected child abuse.
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A patient on a transplant waiting list learns she can quickly and less expensively obtain the organ she needs in Thailand.
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In recent months, 16 of the 38 states that have the death penalty have put executions on hold, primarily over objections raised regarding the lethal injection method.
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Call it health care travel or medical tourism, international travel by people seeking medical procedures and therapies is big business, with estimates commonly in the neighborhood of $20 billion per year.
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Research ethics is seen as a nuisance at best, an impediment to progress at worst, says a Cornell University medical ethicist, who adds that a closer collaboration between researchers and ethicists might lead to a change in that perception.
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A chaplain who recently resigned from her post at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD, said her resignation was requested by the hospital after she tried to end a policy permitting The Gideons missionary organization to deliver Bibles to all hospital patients.