Mental Health Parity Act Spurs Early Action Among Employers
Some have begun full-parity plans ahead of deadline; new case studies available CHICAGO, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- ComPsych reports the majority of its customers are revamping their benefits plans to comply with the Mental Health Parity Act, and that a significant amount already have gone "full...AARP, Others Push for Health Parity for Puerto Rico
NEW YORK, June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As lawmakers in Washington prepare to formally debate national health care reform, AARP has joined with top state and Puerto Rican officials today to pledge "Health Parity for Puerto Rico." The United States is home to some 8 million Puerto Ricans, wit...Mental Health America Hails Approval of Federal Parity Legislation
Bill Broadly Outlaws Health Insurance Discrimination; Recognizes Importance of Mental Health to Overall Health ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mental Health America today hailed as "a great civil rights victory" the approval of a mental health parity legislation that will b...AHIP Statement on House Passage of Mental Health Parity Legislation
WASHINGTON, March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Karen Ignagni, President and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), today issued the following statement on the passage of H.R. 1424 in the House of Representatives: (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040830/AHIPLOGO ) "M...Mental Health Parity Laudable, But House Legislation Would Put Medicaid Patients at Risk, Lilly Says
Provisions of HR 1424 could reduce access to necessary medications for thousands of Americans INDIANAPOLIS, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY ) reiterated its strong support for mental health parity -- the principle that insurers...Fairness Coalition Applauds Senate Passage of Mental Health Parity Bill
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Coalition for Fairness in Mental Illness Coverage commends the United States Senate for passing S. 558, the Mental Health Parity Act of 2007, setting the stage for enactment of a strong parity bill. This legislation -- because of the leadersh...Milliman Analysis: Preparing for Mental Health Parity
Steve Melek White Paper Offers Advice to Health Plans SEATTLE, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time for increasing awareness about mental health issues and getting support to those who need it. This year, health insurers are also looking for guidance as they pre...Engineering algae to make fuel instead of sugar
...rovement in the performance of photosynthesis under mass culture conditions, and in the yield of "biofuels" by the microalgae are needed before a cost parity with traditional fuels can be achieved." ...Brazil's Scientific Research On The Rise, Thomson Reuters Study Finds
...editor of Science Watch . "Although still registering below the overall world average for scientific impact, Brazil has been steadily rising towards parity since the late 1980s. It has moved from a score that was at 44 percent of the world average during the 1985-1989 time period to 63 percent of the worl...New one-of-a-kind technology will fly on 2 NASA missions
...llites would have to greatly reduce science data return or use an inferior technique with less performance," Yeh said. The third chip the Low Density parity Check encoder, adds redundancy information to data before it is transmitted to Earth. This allows for error corrections caused by signal degradation. ...New one-of-a-kind technology will fly on two NASA missions
...llites would have to greatly reduce science data return or use an inferior technique with less performance," Yeh said. The third chip the Low Density parity Check encoder, adds redundancy information to data before it is transmitted to Earth. This allows for error corrections caused by signal degradation. ...Top 10 Cognitive Fitness Events of 2008 to be Unveiled at SharpBrains' Webinar
...nostics and treatments. 8) August: CogniFit secures $5 million from Milk Capital. 9) September: The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 is signed into law. 10) October: Allstate launches a large-scale research project to measure the impact of Posit Sci...Spallation Neutron Source sends first neutrons to 'Big Bang' beam line
...will address the interaction between neutrons and simple nuclei and may help to explain universal 'parity' violation," Greene said. "Roughly speaking, parity is the symmetry that implies that the laws of physics are invariant when 'viewed in a mirror.' The surprising fact is, at a basic level, the universe ...Interview: Billpoint Founder Jason May on eBay, Open Source
...will continue to do so. As an open source advocate, I'm excited by the upcoming MySQL (and InnoDB ) features that will bring it closer to key feature parity with the commercial databases. For platform selection for large enterprise IT database implementations, there are many other concerns that come in...Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the mosh pit
...smatches between capabilities and needs for your IT shop and for the organization it is a part of. Cutting-edge IT in a company aiming for competitive parity isn't a winning strategy and neither is the reverse. Figure out where negative behavior is being rewarded and remember that compensation is only the t...With copper pricing skyrocketing, fiber-optics is the way to go
...l be made every Friday at 1 p.m. EST." For many contractors and new facilities developments, Bisbee thinks that fiber-optic solutions have reached parity with the high-end, copper-based unshielded twisted pair (UTP) alternative. This new round of major cost increases that has been added onto UTP w...Brazilian bio-industry should impress American investors
...U.S. (e.g. Chile). But with the largest economy in Latin America, and one of the largest in the world (about $1 trillion, and on a purchasing power parity basis about $1.6 trillion), and a population of 190 million people, Brazil needs to be embraced by the U.S. Unfortunately, most U.S. companies seem to...