Sentences with phrase «on the medical care of»

Both of these types of organizations, among others, tend to have diverse populations, it would be nothing short of doctrinaire to impose a particular religious dogma on the medical care of everyone who is a patient, a student or an employee.

However Beth has asked for solo child custody and exclusive authority over decisions on the medical care of the children.

Not exact matches

The Trump administration's moves on Obamacare last week — including the decision to stop paying subsidies meant to lower low - income enrollees» out - of - pocket medical costs to insurance companies — have dominated health care headlines.

Vivek Kopparthi is the co-founder and CEO of NeoLight, an empathy - driven technology company primarily focused on lean medical devices for newborn care.

Caring.com found that 53 percent of Americans have granted someone legal authorization to make decisions on their medical care if they are unable to do so.

The Advisory Board Co., a consulting firm that advises medical and educational institutions on a variety of issues — including their health care spending — had completed a survey of 80 hospital members.

Like an MD, they can diagnose and treat patients independently, prescribe medications, and order medical tests, all while maintaining the focus on attentive patient care typical of a nurse.

Authors Mark Rovere and Brett J. Skinner found that although Canada is one of the biggest spenders on national health care within the 27 - member Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it nevertheless ranked below average on most of the indicators measuring availability of medical resources and services.

But they also noted that it was difficult to know how much credence lay people placed on fictional portrayals of medical care.

But the bill Cassidy went on to co-author with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R - SC), known now as the Graham - Cassidy health care bill, would almost certainly fall short of that goal, according to initial analyses by major medical groups.

CHICAGO, April 4, 2018 / PRNewswire / — Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic investor focused exclusively on the health care industry, and Sarnova founder, Matthew D. Walter, announced today that they have completed the sale of Sarnova, the nation's premier national distributor of health care products to the acute care and emergency medical services (EMS) markets, to Patricia Industries.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, which has a separate budget, seeks to spend $ 69 billion on medical care in fiscal 2018.

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

Under the model of such a «patient - centered medical home,» for instance, health care providers could give people practical (and personally tailored) advice on the «next best action» they may be able to take in order to improve their health, perhaps by improving their diet or boosting how much exercise they get.

As Amino CEO David Vivero told me back then, the firm's platform is «based on insurance claims data from both public and private players,» allowing for a more accurate depiction of how much medical care costs.

Wasteful use of medical care has «become so normalized that I don't think people in the system see it,» said Dr. Vikas Saini, president of The Lown Institute, a Boston think tank focused on making health care more effective, affordable and just.

Yet in a new Manhattan Institute study of New York State hospital ratings on Yelp, which boasts some 140 million unique monthly users, Yelp reviews were correlated with better medical care.

According to the Health Care Cost Institute, about 43 % of all spending by individuals with employer - sponsored insurance in 2011 was shoppable, meaning that it was spent on medical services whose prices could be significantly lowered without compromising quality.

Both Price and Gottlieb were questioned on their intimate involvement with biopharmaceutical and health care companies by lawmakers; Price specifically was the subject of sharp ethics questions about his financial investments in medical firms that would also benefit from legislation he was pushing while serving in the House of Representatives.

• Ping An Good Doctor, a Chinese app for medical care, is readying an IPO of $ 1 billion, with J.P. Morgan and Citigroup working on the deal, Reuters reports.

As Wallerstein sees it, there's only one for corporations: «The way the IRS's rules are set up for health - care reimbursement FSAs, an employee could decide to contribute, say, $ 2,000 over the course of a year, spend that money on medical procedures during the first two months of the year, and then quit, leaving his company holding the bag for any funds that hadn't yet been deducted from his paycheck.»

CVS will extend use of Epic's EHR technology to its specialty care programs for managing complex and chronic medical conditions and rare diseases, the company announced on Friday.

Named one of the best «Best Places to Work in the Valley» by the Phoenix Business Journal for the last seven consecutive years, the Chandler Regional Medical Center is dedicated to its employees and credits its success on the people who care for its patients.

The medical loss ratio provision of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, requires most insurance companies that cover individuals and small businesses to spend at least 80 percent of their premium income on health care claims and quality improvemCare Act, or Obamacare, requires most insurance companies that cover individuals and small businesses to spend at least 80 percent of their premium income on health care claims and quality improvemcare claims and quality improvement.

Our service is focused on multiple social determinants of health, and delivers the quality of care and on - time certainty that medical facilities need in order to increase throughput and reduce wait times.»

Forward - looking statements may include, among others, statements concerning our projected adjusted income (loss) from operations outlook for 2018, on both a consolidated and segment basis; projected total revenue growth and global medical customer growth, each over year end 2017; projected growth beyond 2018; projected medical care and operating expense ratios and medical cost trends; our projected consolidated adjusted tax rate; future financial or operating performance, including our ability to deliver personalized and innovative solutions for our customers and clients; future growth, business strategy, strategic or operational initiatives; economic, regulatory or competitive environments, particularly with respect to the pace and extent of change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with Express Scripts Holding Company («Express Scripts») and other statements regarding Cigna's future beliefs, expectations, plans, intentions, financial condition or performance.

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.

Maybe 15 percent of your income is taken right off the paycheck by the FICA [Federal Insurance Contributions Act] for Social Security and essentially pre-saving for Social Security medical care (which provides the government with enough money to cut taxes on the higher brackets.)

He has advised clients on a range of issues, including portfolio reorientation to focus on higher - growth areas, growth strategy development and implementation, cost diagnostics, accountable care strategy development, adjacency prioritization work and medical management model development.

We provide our services to a variety of industries and facilities, providing cleaning services and janitorial maintenance for offices, auto dealerships, schools, daycare centers, retail stores, places of worship, medical and health care facilities and the list goes on.

«Following a recent series of hospitalizations, and after consulting her family and doctors, Mrs. Bush, now age 92, has decided not to seek additional medical treatment and will instead focus on comfort care,» spokesman...

The analyst also lowered his outlook for the medical office building REIT segment as a whole to Neutral on the basis of his view that growth will slow and better value can be found in the health care REIT sector.

It wasn't the practical reasons, like lower cost of living, great — and cheap — medical care, and friendly people, that convinced Dave Scott to move to San Ramón, a town on the western edge of Costa Rica's Central Valley region.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

With the rise of Managed Care resulting to enormous increase on payer denials, Infinit Healthcare uses our extensive experience in the medical billing industry to implement techniques that diminish these denials.

The elderly tend to dedicate twice as much of their aggregate spending to medical care, as well as more on housing costs, relative to working - age Americans.

With consumers on the hook for more of their health care, they need to be educated about how to navigate medical costs - both before and after a medical event.

Nevertheless, prescription drugs CPI is only 1.37 % of the aggregate index (according to a BLS official at the time of writing), thus the overall effect on medical care inflation and headline aggregate index should be limited.

He says the future of health care is going to depend, mostly, on the time people spend outside the grasp of the traditional medical system.

Ativa Medical Corp. is a privately held, emerging growth medical diagnostic company developing and commercializing novel point - of - care diagnostic technologies.This technology will enable health care professionals to perform critical hematology and blood chemistry tests on - site and get accurate results within about 5 mMedical Corp. is a privately held, emerging growth medical diagnostic company developing and commercializing novel point - of - care diagnostic technologies.This technology will enable health care professionals to perform critical hematology and blood chemistry tests on - site and get accurate results within about 5 mmedical diagnostic company developing and commercializing novel point - of - care diagnostic technologies.This technology will enable health care professionals to perform critical hematology and blood chemistry tests on - site and get accurate results within about 5 minutes.

For example, an Anthem nurse will be alerted to connect with a member based on their medical or lifestyle needs and can help members follow their doctors» plan of care, flagging missed lab tests and providing additional educational resources.

Instead of offering medical care and medicine when their child was ill, they relied on faith and pray.

Look it up for yourself: the GOP has cut school lunch programs, Aid to dependent children, Planned Parenthood health care which provides medical care for expectant mothers (under the guise that they perform a limited number of abortions annually), Medicare programs which provides health care to the children who were born in the past because they weren't aborted, WIC which provides food to Women, Infants and Children... one could go on.

Wendy — is it ok if your employer denies you any health care coverage based on his or her beliefs that prayer is the only acceptable form of medical intervention?

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

The ethics committee at the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan weighed in on August 9, 1993, opining that to honor the parents» desire to continue Baby Terry's treatment «would be contrary to medical judgment and to moral and ethical beliefs of physicians caring for the patient» (my empMedical Center in Flint, Michigan weighed in on August 9, 1993, opining that to honor the parents» desire to continue Baby Terry's treatment «would be contrary to medical judgment and to moral and ethical beliefs of physicians caring for the patient» (my empmedical judgment and to moral and ethical beliefs of physicians caring for the patient» (my emphasis).

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Nursing of elderly patients who are on the LCP, in proximity to those in whom evidence - based medicine is determining care, is confusing to junior medical staff and nurses alike.

Is it unreasonable to expect that we spend as much on food and medical care and justice for the whole rest of the world as we do on luxuries for ourselves?

So we buy fancy cars and travel first class and build mansions for ourselves and furnish them with luxuries to satisfy our whims while our neighbors on this planet live in shacks and struggle against oppression and watch their children die young from lack of food and medical care.