Insurance, Health - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Uninsured children and adolescents with insured parents.

20 Oct 2008 CONTEXT: Millions of US children and adolescents lack health insurance coverage. Efforts to expand their insurance often focus on extending public coverage to uninsured parents. Less is known about the uninsured whose parents already have coverage. ... Read more...

Compliance with biologic therapies for rheumatoid arthritis: do patient out-of-pocket payments matter?

13 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of patient out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures on adherence and persistence with biologics in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS: An inception cohort of RA patients with pharmacy claims for etanercept or ... Read more...

Federal employees health benefits acquisition regulation: Board of Contract Appeals. Final rule.

6 Oct 2008 The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is adopting as final,without change, the proposed rule published April 7, 2008 to remove the designation of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA)from the Federal Employees Health Benefits ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Insurance, Health'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Insurance for $30 a month. New just-in-case policies aren't perfect, but they'll do in a pinch. 25 Oct 2008
• Three "inconvenient truths" about health care. 21 Oct 2008
• Slowing the growth of health care costs--learning from international experience. 21 Oct 2008
• Health insurance costs remain a burden for employers and working families. 20 Oct 2008
• Congress passes mental health parity bill. 20 Oct 2008
• Upper income limit for SCHIP and forgone care among uninsured US children. 20 Oct 2008
• Uninsured children and adolescents with insured parents. 20 Oct 2008
• Making access to quality and affordable health care a reality for every American. 20 Oct 2008
• Affordable health care for all Americans: the Obama-Biden plan. 20 Oct 2008
• Compliance with biologic therapies for rheumatoid arthritis: do patient out-of-pocket payments matter? 13 Oct 2008
• Why Oregon went wrong. 12 Oct 2008
• Vetting McCain's health plan. 11 Oct 2008
• Federal employees health benefits acquisition regulation: Board of Contract Appeals. Final rule. 6 Oct 2008
• [Analysis of the quality of health care for patients with type 2 diabetes enrolled in statutory or private health plans] 5 Oct 2008
• Squashing reforms. Schwarzenegger vetoes healthcare bills in Calif. 4 Oct 2008
• Still in the game--harnessing employer inventiveness in U.S. health care reform. 30 Sep 2008
• The role of citizenship, employment, and socioeconomic characteristics in health insurance coverage among Asian subgroups in the United States. 29 Sep 2008
• Introduction to special theme issue on health insurance in the United States. 29 Sep 2008
• Thinking clearly about the issue of health insurance. 29 Sep 2008
• Separate and unequal: self-segregation in health insurance. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Insurance, Health'

Definition: Insurance providing coverage of medical, surgical, or hospital care in general or for which there is no specific heading.

Descriptor UI: D007348

Alternative terms: Insurance, Health; Health Insurance; Health Insurance, Voluntary; Insurance, Voluntary Health; Voluntary Health Insurance; Group Health Insurance; Health Insurance, Group; Insurance, Group Health;

Related Mesh Headings: Physician's Practice Patterns; Medically Uninsured;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N03.219.521.576.343;

Technical Notes: specify geog if possible; CHAMPUS: index under HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE