Sentences with phrase «of health care regulations»

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The nondiscrimination rules and regulations of the Affordable Care Act make it difficult for employers to switch workers» eligibility for health benefits between exempt and non-exempt status.

And while the bill's supporters argue that the legislation is a sensible fix that gives states much - needed flexibility on health care programs, the AMA, AAMC, and AARP say it would benefit the young, the healthy, and the rich at the expense of the old, the sick, and the poor by taking hacksaw to the Medicaid program that covers low - income Americans and allowing states to opt out of benefits requirements and other regulations under Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care care programs, the AMA, AAMC, and AARP say it would benefit the young, the healthy, and the rich at the expense of the old, the sick, and the poor by taking hacksaw to the Medicaid program that covers low - income Americans and allowing states to opt out of benefits requirements and other regulations under Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Care Act.

'' [Trump's] first objective is not to mollify protesters who will never be happy even after they benefit from his rollback of regulations, his tax relief package, his infrastructure [spending], and his making health care more affordable,» she said.

Paychex president and CEO Martin Mucci said some caution is seeping into labor markets ahead of the presidential election and as business owners juggle new health - care and minimum - wage regulations and prepare for the launch of overtime rules in December.

But it has failed to recover in recent years because of a series of policies that increase the burden on small - business owners — higher taxes, increases to health - care costs, more costly regulations, and now the minimum wage increase proposal

U.S. stocks took their biggest loss in five months Tuesday as a health care bill backed by President Donald Trump ran into trouble in Congress, which raised some questions about his agenda of faster economic growth spurred on by lower taxes and cuts in regulations.

Some of the risks associated with investment in the health care sector include competition on branded products, sales erosion due to cheaper alternatives, research & development risk, government regulations and government approval of products anticipated to enter the market.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

An Abbreviated New Drug Submission (ANDS) must be approved by Health Canada, the country's federal department in charge of national health care, under Canada's Food and Drug regulations before the generic drug can be marketed in the coHealth Canada, the country's federal department in charge of national health care, under Canada's Food and Drug regulations before the generic drug can be marketed in the cohealth care, under Canada's Food and Drug regulations before the generic drug can be marketed in the country.

After enjoying a period of very strong performance, the shares of health care companies fell by more than 40 percent in value from the beginning of 1992 through the summer of 1993 (while the market was flat) as investors feared lower health care profits from proposals of broad nationalization and increased regulation.

Novell Net Services Software Enables Metropolitan Health to Cut Costs, Improve Patient Care and Meet the Challenges of New Government Healthcare Regulations

Investments in fast - growing industries like the technology and health care sectors (which have historically been volatile) could result in increased price fluctuation, especially over the short term, due to the rapid pace of product change and development and changes in government regulation of companies emphasizing scientific or technological advancement or regulatory approval for new drugs and medical instruments.

CNN: Catholics clergymen come out swinging against HHS regulation Catholics around the country got an earful on Sunday from the pulpit over a new health insurance policy by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that forces employers to cover contraception and abortion as part of preventative care regardless of religious behealth insurance policy by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that forces employers to cover contraception and abortion as part of preventative care regardless of religious beHealth and Human Services that forces employers to cover contraception and abortion as part of preventative care regardless of religious beliefs.

Bottom line: To reduce health insurance costs and to not be subject to Obama care regulations about supplying contraceptives, the Catholics should simply not hire those in need of contraceptives and fire those who demand such coverage.

In short, it seems that most of the real gains from nationalization can be achieved by government regulations that safeguard the safety and health of workers, insure that they are taken care of when they are unemployed and when they retire, and allow them to organize to promote their own interests.

Bottom line: To reduce health insurance costs and to not be subject to Obama care regulations about supplying contraceptives, Catholic groups should simply not hire those in need of contraceptives and fire those who demand such coverage.

While Smith's analysis is on target, his remedy (more government regulation and financing of health care) may exacerbate the very disease he wishes to cure: what makes him think that government bean - counters will want to pay to keep people alive?

That regulation from the Department of Health and Human Services helping implement the 2010 health care law requires employers to provide their workers with coverage for contraceptives with mechanisms that can potentially induce aborHealth and Human Services helping implement the 2010 health care law requires employers to provide their workers with coverage for contraceptives with mechanisms that can potentially induce aborhealth care law requires employers to provide their workers with coverage for contraceptives with mechanisms that can potentially induce abortions.

«That meddlesome regulation encouraging healthcare workers to obstruct needed treatment considered offensive,» Barbara Coombs Lee, the head of Compassion and Choices, railed on her blog, «allows ideologues in health care to place their own dogmatic beliefs above all.»

State regulation would require, as is now required of other health care professions, demonstration of a minimum competency level in the athletic training profession.

The multi-disciplinary Task Forces reported on their progress and discussed the priority areas including: site of birth decision - making, interprofessional collaboration and education, regulation and licensure, health disparities and equity, consumer engagement, liability, research and data collection, and physiologic birth care.

Companies will also need to ensure that carelines, websites or mother and baby clubs, and any advertisements for these means of communication, supply only factual information to consumers and health care professionals and, where they constitute advertising comply [with the regulations, that is, no advertising of infant formula, brand names are not made the focus etc].

She is a member of the firm's Litigation group and is also active in the Health Care and Life Sciences, and Federal Government Contract and Agency Regulation groups.

Constitutional convention of cabinet collective responsibility - Baroness Miller of Hendon Regulation of healthcare assistance in the light of the Health and Care Professions Council's preliminary finding that there are significant shortcomings in a voluntary register - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

Health care isn't really a «right», more as an essential service in sore need of a regulation overhaul.

In this post I look at Trump's proposals for trade, health care, financial regulation and climate change and conclude that his administration is likely to run into major obstacles in each of these areas.

This model, which advances New York's goals for improving health care quality and reducing costs, is the type of inventive approach not contemplated in existing statute or regulation.

Other provisions include an agreement to implement yet to be finalized changes in employee health care intended to save at least $ 3.4 billion, a loosening of regulations intended to allow greater control by individual principals and teachers, an increase in parent / teacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Reserve.

A new state regulation now requires that people ages 13 to 64, and other ages as indicated, be offered voluntary HIV testing as a routine part of health care at hospitals and in primary care settings.

While there are federal health care laws that must be followed, many of the rules, regulations and laws regarding health care, itself, let alone health care financing differ from state to state:

Health and Human services: U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury Issue Regulation on «Grandfathered» Health Plans under the Affordable Care Act press release on June 14, 2010 included the following estimates:

Second of all, the recovery is terrible because obama and the extremist nut cases who back him, like yourself, passed a horrible health care law that has slowed the economy, hes raised taxes and regulations and he's more obsessed with social engineering than helping people get back to work.

The Assembly's budget kept intact roughly a quarter of the more than two - dozen health initiatives proposed by Cuomo, including a bill of rights for Ebola health care workers, streamlined regulations governing the establishment of new health facilities, and the expiration of some Medicaid cuts to providers.

Department of Health Commissioner Richard Daines, M.D., said: «As New York's health care system continues to modernize, so must the State's regulations for ensuring New Yorkers have access to a full range of serHealth Commissioner Richard Daines, M.D., said: «As New York's health care system continues to modernize, so must the State's regulations for ensuring New Yorkers have access to a full range of serhealth care system continues to modernize, so must the State's regulations for ensuring New Yorkers have access to a full range of services.

If health care and financial regulation bills are passed and the economy is growing at 4 % or better by the second quarter of next year, Democrats will easily win in all four of those contests.

«That this House notes that the Government regulation implementing Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act contradicts previous Ministerial assurances that NHS commissioners should decide when and how competition should be used to serve patient interests; acknowledges that, although the last Labour Government rolled out the red carpet to private companies to make profits from NHS services, believes that patients come before profits in our NHS; and therefore calls on HM Government to withdraw SI 257, go back to the drawing board and draw up a policy which supports an integrated NHS which encourages collaboration in the interest of patient care rather than a fragmented service driven by profit.&raCare Act contradicts previous Ministerial assurances that NHS commissioners should decide when and how competition should be used to serve patient interests; acknowledges that, although the last Labour Government rolled out the red carpet to private companies to make profits from NHS services, believes that patients come before profits in our NHS; and therefore calls on HM Government to withdraw SI 257, go back to the drawing board and draw up a policy which supports an integrated NHS which encourages collaboration in the interest of patient care rather than a fragmented service driven by profit.&racare rather than a fragmented service driven by profit.»

More positively, it is welcome that, responding to the suspension of data - sharing, Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth noted yesterday «Theresa May has ignored warnings that the regulations on ID checks at hospitals are also damaging patient care» and added that «The Government must now suspend these regulations while a full review is carried out.»

A health care consultant with close ties to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo did not violate state lobbying regulations when he contacted state officials on behalf of a Queens hospital seeking more Medicaid financing, a confidential investigation by the state ethics commission has determined.

ALBANY, NY (11/27/2013)(readMedia)-- PEF filed a lawsuit November 26th in state Supreme Court, Albany County, challenging a regulation of state Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah requiring persons working in patient care to wear surgical masks during flu season, if they have not been vaccinated against the flu.

The others are the definition of the child under domestic law and regulations; civil rights and freedom; family environment and alternative care; health and welfare; education, leisure and cultural activities; special protection measures; and responsibilities of the child.

As a champion of accountable government regulation, universal health care, and individual liberty, he has applied the values of the Enlightenment to the 21st century.»

Individual obstetricians and their professional organizations should protest the injustice, describe the health and financial costs of the current consent process, and prevail on government health care officials to change the regulations.

Other bills that address the topic focus on shortening the time from discovery to treatment in the U.S. health care system, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), or on tweaking specific federal regulahealth care system, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), or on tweaking specific federal regulaHealth (NIH), or on tweaking specific federal regulations.

«Reducing exposure to phthalates and other hormone - disrupting chemicals is something that needs to be addressed at a societal level through consumer advocacy and regulation, and education of health care providers.»

Ho's research examines the effects of economic incentives and regulations on the quality and costs of health care.

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Government regulations mandate that the USDA routinely conduct unannounced intensive program inspections to thoroughly examine all aspects of animal health, housing facilities, veterinary care, medical documentation, and work practices at licensed facilities.

He is strictly against the looming globalist Codex Alimentarius regulations that have been designed to rob individuals of their personal health freedoms and turn everyone's health care decisions over to faceless corporate bureaucrats.

The North Dakota Board of Integrative Health Care makes every effort to include on this website all relevant information pertaining to the licensing and regulation of the licensing and regulation of Naturopathic Doctors, Music Therapy, and Acupuncture.