CMS Denial of Coverage for Virtual Colonoscopy May Cost Lives
Congress Should Act to Require Coverage of CT Colonography RESTON, Va., May 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today's determination by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to not cover screening computed tomography colonography (CTC), also known as virtual colonoscopy, exams is no...Chef Grills GEICO over Claim Denial Allegations
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Chef and caterer to the stars, Dean Kropp, challenged the practices of GEICO Auto Insurance, health insurance agencies and government agencies who denied injury claims, in his scathing expose, "A Bone to Pick"... and he won. After...Recondo Technology Announces Authorization and Denial Prevention Software Service
Recondo Auth-DP Service Helps Manage Insurance Plan Authorizations and Reduces Denials GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Recondo Technology, a leading provider of revenue cycle solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced the release schedule of Auth-DP, the firm's ...Magistrate Judge Recommends Denial of Class Certification in Funeral Industry Antitrust Litigation
BATESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hillenbrand, Inc. (NYSE: HI ) -- On Nov. 24, 2008, a magistrate judge in the United States District Court in the Southern District of Texas (Houston) issued recommendations that plaintiffs' motions for class certification be denied in two previ...'Insight' deficit may explain denial in drug addiction
WASHINGTON, D.C. Drug abusers are often characterized as being in "denial" not recognizing the severity of their disorder. Although "denial" is often considered to be a form of deception, emerging research suggests that it may be due to a specific brain dysfunction similar to that observed in ot...RNs, Family Protest Denial of Critical Surgery for Orange County ICU Nurse
Nurses' Campaign Floods Blue Cross with Message: Save Our Colleague COSTA MESA, Calif., March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Registered nurses, family, and concerned community members will protest Blue Cross of California in support of 46-year-old Kim Kutcher, RN, as she battles Blue Cross and its decisi...Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Starts Advanced Breast-Cancer Risk-Assessment Program
...east cancer shouldn't be something that's scary for women," said oncology breast surgeon Dr. Kandice Kilbride. "The reality is that we're all at risk; denial doesn't make the cancer risk go away. This program simply measures what level of risk and gives women the tools to address those risks." For more in...Mayo Clinic Proceedings Contributors Discuss Impact of Donor Organ Allocation System
...Clinic Jacksonville liver transplant team and lead researcher for a Mayo study on this topic. The Mayo study examined the evaluation practices and denial and acceptance criteria for liver transplant used by the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Transplant Center after the MELD system was implemented. "Obtain...Demonstration Features Commercial Technology for Combating Terrorism
...igation systems; cargo inspection devices; chemical and biological detection, mitigation and protection equipment; communications equipment; delay and denial technology; explosives detection systems; explosive ordnance disposal equipment; fence sensor systems; individual protective equipment; night vision a...Demonstration Features Commercial Technology for Combating Terrorism
...igation systems; cargo inspection devices; chemical and biological detection, mitigation and protection equipment; communications equipment; delay and denial technology; explosives detection systems; explosive ordnance disposal equipment; fence sensor systems; individual protective equipment; night vision a...Demonstration Targets Terrorism
...igation systems; cargo inspection devices; chemical and biological detection, mitigation and protection equipment; communications equipment; delay and denial technology; explosives detection systems; explosive ordnance disposal equipment; fence sensor systems; individual protective equipment; night vision a...Experts tackle shipment issues for beneficial radiation sources
...te best practices; and A regional database of denial of shipments instances that will help identify iss...rs include the International Steering Committee on denial of Shipments, the IAEA, the UN and International M...ighlighted the importance of tackling the issue of denial of shipments of radioactive material, emphasizing ...UC biology prof traces his roots to the first Earth Day
... vilified as tree-huggers and Birkenstocks (and let's not forget the nickname "Ozone Man"). Our government has wasted precious time creating doubt and denial regarding global warming, which has been recognized and understood by scientists since the 1980s. Some of the dire predictions of that earlier time...STAAR Surgical Releases Afinity(TM) Collamer(R) Aspheric Single Piece NTIOL
...New lens designs may require clinical research studies and applying for the FDA's premarket approval, which are expensive and could result in delay or denial of approval. Other risks and uncertainties include our limited cash resources, the effect on our liquidity of the recent court judgment against us, th...Trinity Biotech Management Refuses to Honor Call for a Special Meeting of Shareholders
...November 5, 2008 that they would not call the special meeting as requested. In their refusal letter, the Trinity Biotech directors stated that their denial was based on a determination that the ADR holders, as contrasted with the ordinary shares they represent, do not have the authority under Irish law to...PacifiCare Capitulates to Latest Patient Revolt
... a humane healthcare system." DeMoro said that CNA/NNOC will continue to encourage patient protests and publicize stories about insurance companies' denial of care, as it has all year through its http://www.guaranteedhealthcare.org website, while pressing for real healthcare reform "that takes medical d...UW attracts speaker on network that could supplant Internet
...ience, Peterson admitted that malicious code run on PlanetLab itself could potentially be devestating. "This is the world's most efficient distributed denial of service platform," he said. But the system has checks on it, including the ability to restrict specific users' access to the Internet and their ...Corporate identity fitness test
...nagement. Corporations that have paid millions in adopting such identities still continue to spend millions in explaining their name, often stay in denial and will not accept this fundamental analysis. These names simply bleed and sink some very great projects. Ask yourself the real question: if a nam...Stay in the driver's seat, but don't ditch technology
...rket analysis or financial projection, we shouldn't get trapped in a 25-year-old assessment of the role of technology. It takes a prodigious amount of denial to suggest that we can afford to spend as much as we do on technology and not have it drive our businesses in some way. Yes, we need to be extremely e...