Sentences with phrase «private health funds»

As the funding of the HCH by the Federal Government is minimal, additional funding from State Governments and Private Health Funds may be necessary to make the model a success.

Compare registered private health funds on the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman website.

A qualified naturopathic nutritionist will also be registered with professional associations such as the Australian Traditional Medicine Society, enabling their clients to claim nutrition consultations with private health funds.

Note reluctance of small physiotherapy practices to engage with ACCC «for fear of «damaging their relationship with private health funds.»

The ACCC «has granted authorisation to the Catholic Negotiating Alliance (CNA), a network of nine hospital and aged care service providers, to collectively negotiate with Funding Organisations (including private health funds) and suppliers of various goods and services.»

This would see Australia move towards a European - style system of publicly - subsidised universal health insurance provided by competing private health funds.

Health Minister Sussan Ley's flight to the sin bin leaves premium rates covering 13.5 million health fund members and the $ 20 billion private health fund sector up in the air.

The initiative aimed to offer a flexible and collaborative approach to service delivery, and to assist families with accessing available rebates via Medicare, ATAPS and private health funding.

Not exact matches

Trump said he was not pleased with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price following reports on his use of government - funded private jets.

With some provinces whining that the funding is inadequate, private, often for - profit, health - care options will increasingly become a necessity for the country rather than a political choice.

So the group committed to making that a reality — working with their Global Forum colleagues and others in the private and nonprofit sectors to fund a corps of 750,000 community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa and other underserved rural areas of the globe.

She currently serves as President and Executive Director and as a member of the board of directors of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), an independent 501 (c)(3) charitable organization established by Congress to support the mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by raising private funds for biomedical research and fostering partnerships and alliances around the world.

This is an idea - allowing private delivery within the publicly funded health care system - that the Liberals have tolerated, and the Conservatives have a long list of quotations on their Web site designed to show that Harper's stance is the same as the Liberals».

From health care to retail, private funds, and beyond, what are the most lucrative investment opportunities in China and where should investors place their future bets?

We've identified 34 digital health companies on our Tech IPO pipeline list, alongside 6 digital health companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for rethealth companies on our Tech IPO pipeline list, alongside 6 digital health companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for rethealth companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for retHealth, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for returns).

«The reality is these proposals prop up Obamacare instead of repealing it,» said Alexei Woltornist, spokesman for the Republican Study Committee, a large bloc of House conservatives that says the plan amounts to a taxpayer - funded giveaway to private health insurers.

The main driver of that customer churn is confusion about the 48,000 different products being sold by funds, private health insurance executives told Dr Ratnanesan as part of a report to be released on Tuesday by his advisory outfit Energesse.

KT currently serves on the board of Diversified Health Services, a private healthcare services company that operates assisted living and nursing care facilities in the United States and was formerly on the board of Index, a retail software company funded by General Catalyst, Innovation Endeavors and Khosla Ventures.

Funding under the AFLA went, as Congress intended, to a wide variety of recipients including state and local health agencies, private hospitals, community health associations, privately operated health care centers, and community and charitable organizations, many of them with ties to religious denominations.

Federal funds are also granted to state public health programs ($ 66,000,000 in the fiscal year 1969) Community mental health receives a minimum of 15 percent of each state's allotment, and 70 percent of the grant is available to support services in communities for which both public and private nonprofit groups may apply.

More than thirty states have passed community mental health service acts or other legislation which makes funds available on a continuing basis to match local public or private nonprofit expenditures for mental health services.

Australia enjoys a robust private health system that is supported by public funding.

We eradicate stigma by increasing the availability and accessibility of mental health care worldwide by: treating patients, training professionals, including psychologists, therapists, OBGYNs, pediatricians, nurses, and midwives, providing public programs, including new parent groups, breastfeeding clinics, and adolescent services, funding research, providing curated content online, and advocating in public and private sectors.

The PPA will help represent the state pediatric dentistry association in promoting children's oral health issues with the state legislature and other elected bodies, state regulatory agencies (including Medicaid and health departments), licensing bureaus, professional health and child welfare organizations, oral health coalitions, foundations, institutions of dental education, publicly - funded safety net programs, and the private sector benefits industry.

«Most people will see this bill for what it is — a cynical attempt to deflect growing public concern about the behaviour of rich corporate lobbyists representing hedge funds and private health companies, many of whom donate substantial sums to the Conservative party,» general secretary Frances O'Grady said.

I'm sure the «masters of the universe» in banks, Murdoch - owned newspapers, hedge funds, private equity firms, management consultancies, accountancy firms and private health - care companies, many of them officially resident in tax havens in British jurisdictions, prefer Gray's «raffish capitalism» to any conceivable alternative.

And despite growing support - from India to Sierra Leone - for publicly funded health and education systems modelled on our own, the Conservatives are pushing for private sector provision in DfID's new private sector strategy.

What it didn't announce was that two - thirds enrolled in the taxpayer - funded Medicaid program — not the private health - insurance exchanges.

«We're going to be out there campaigning on economic justice issues and we will take the fight to the Tories because there is a choice to be made: do we want to live in a society based on individualism and private provision, or do we want to defend the principles of the national health service and properly fund social care?»

Earlier, the Chairman, Dutch's Health Insurance Fund, Mr. Kees Storm, who signed on behalf of Dutch Government, said the Kwara State Health Insurance Fund would pool resources from the state government, federal government, communities, development partners and private sector to ensure a successful future of the programme.

As Health Secretary Alan Johnson is, of course, responsible (a) for the NHS, through which New Labour induced public / private arrangements run like a bad bout of MRSA and (b) for declaring hypocritically that cancer patients could not combine NHS and privately funded treatments.

Worries about health service funding have emerged with increasing intensity in the run - up to the autumn statement on 23 November after it emerged that May told the head of the NHS in private that it would get no additional money this parliament.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced $ 1.5 billion in grants last March to fund health care capital and infrastructure improvement projects, only eight of the 162 grants went to private businesses.

Nixon's celebrity status should be a boon to the fund — which seeks to raise private funding for partnerships on public programs dealing with education, health, the arts and other issues.

A senior Labour source said: «This raises serious questions about Andrew Lansley's judgement and it is difficult to see how he can continue on in his role as shadow health secretary when it would appear that a private health care company is helping to fund the development of Tory healthy policy.

City Mental Health Plans: First Lady Chirlane McCray, Chair of the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, announced a $ 30 million public - private partnership to support the new Connections to Care program, which will «integrate mental health services into programs already serving low - income communities.&Health Plans: First Lady Chirlane McCray, Chair of the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, announced a $ 30 million public - private partnership to support the new Connections to Care program, which will «integrate mental health services into programs already serving low - income communities.&health services into programs already serving low - income communities.»

A U.S. attorney says the Dutchess County surgeon Thursday pleaded guilty to operating a long - running health care fraud scheme in which he defrauded Medicare, the New York State Insurance Fund, and numerous private health insurance providers out of more than $ 2.5 million by lying about the nature and scope of the surgical procedures he performed.

Volunteers with specific skills were given demand driven work in the education, health, justice, community and private sectors alongside partners such as SURF, the Survivors Fund which supports survivors of the Rwandan genocide.

In fact GASB 45 is a recent accounting requirement put in place because private sector employers routinely under funded and misstated their own pension and health insurance obligations.

School nurse positions funded through the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will be downsized, affecting some 33,000 students in public, private and parochial schools.

As part of the CLS program — which is funded by the state, the city, the UFT and private donors — a full - time community school director is hired by each school to secure and manages services in six areas: health and wellness, educator supports, academic supports, expanded learning time, parent supports and community outreach.

Huge sums that are supposed to fund the National Health Service are finding their way into yet more offshore tax havens, channelled through Private Finance initiative (PFI) projects.

In order to ensure that individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health issues, and our seniors have a safe and comfortable place to call home, the IDC calls for: (1) a $ 40 million fund to incentivize housing for middle - and low - income seniors; (2) a $ 7,500 tax credit for repairs to seniors» homes where the resident can not afford the cost of repairs; (3) the creation of a $ 25 million housing disability fund to leverage private financing to develop or retrofit up to 1,400 housing units for people with mental or developmental disabilities; and (4) setting aside $ 10 million of existing Medicaid redesign team supportive housing funds for the upstate region.

The majority of the funding for the activities of the Project on Science, Technology and Disability came from the National Science Foundation, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, IBM, Xerox and other corporate and private grants.

In the current climate, the main source of funding for studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policy.

The Supreme Court today struck down a federal requirement that forced private health organizations to denounce prostitution in order to get funding for programs aimed at preventing or treating HIV / AIDS.

This study is among several funded under a public - private partnership established in 2008 between NICHD and the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, a division of Mars Inc., to establish a human - animal interaction research program to support studies relevant to child development, health, and the therapeutic use of animals.

One hot topic in public health funding, he said, is the idea of working with the private insurance and reinsurance sectors to begin insuring against pandemics in the same way that these companies insure against natural disasters such as hurricanes.

Stamets has no regular academic or institutional affiliation; his research is funded mostly by the profits from his private company, Fungi Perfecti, which sells gourmet and medicinal mushrooms (along with growing kits, mushroom - derived supplements and mushroom - related books and knickknacks) by mail order and at health food stores.

Barriers to access to the benefits of science, particularly in the health sector, result from a shift in the balance of public sector funding for research and private sector funding for development, Wyndham noted.