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Visions: Preizler offers insurer's perspective on healthcare IT

, views the benefits in much the same way and he explains why in Part...
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Doctors unhappy with insurer’s ratings proposa

In the latest salvo in the pay-for-performance medicine, one of the Triad’s largest insurers United Healthcare, is rolling out a controversial plan to rate physicians on its network based on the quality of care provided by them. // This means that patients will be allowed to choose the doctor rated best by the insurer as well as by other patients. Naturally, doctors are not amused by...

Insurers Want Breast Cancer Test Results

Insurers in Britain are planning to impose higher premiums on women who have not tested themselves for breast cancer. Insurers have approached government regulators in this regard and are asking that women test themselves for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations,// which play a huge role in the development of breast and ovarian cancers. Currently, the insurance industry cannot ask for...

Private Medical Insurers Rise To Women’s Requirement of ‘Hercepti’

Herceptin, the wonder drug for breast cancer victims is denied by the NHS to victims who are suffering the initial stages of cancer, but the private medical insurers have saved their day by pitching in. // Bupa, a private insurer, has already made available this drug to almost 100 women, who have been diagnosed in the early stages, and standard life has made the drug available in 30 s...

Should Genetic Information Be Disclosed to Insurers?

There is no good reason to deny insurers access to genetic information, argues a Professor of Ethics in a debate published in this weeks BMJ. Only if we refuse to give insurers access to all health information can we reasonably stop them seeking genetic test results, says Professor Soren Holm from Cardiff Law School. If insurers were denied access to any health inform...

Life Insurers in India to Launch Health Insurance Policies

Buoyed up by a resurgent economy, the Rs 3,200-crore Indian health insurance industry is poised to reach further heights, observers say . At a growth rate of over 44 per cent per annum, it is one of the most attractive businesses for non-life insurers and even life insurers are jumping in the fray. The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), for instance, is planni...
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