All the headlines from our Drugs Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 4 2005 // Kibble & Prentice announced the results of its annual employee benefits survey. With nearly 250 Washington state companies reporting, the results showed two surprising trends: The rate of increase of health plan costs...
Jul 4 2005 // Over the past couple of years, the most used phrase in the employee benefits industry has been consumer-driven health care. Though its broadest definition may refer to limited employer contribution or dual option plans,...
Jul 4 2005 // Carmelo Sanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills, have pleaded guilty to charges...
Jul 4 2005 // Kibble & Prentice recently announced the results of its annual employee benefits survey. With nearly 250 Washington state companies reporting, the results showed two surprising trends: The rate of increase of health...
Jul 4 2005 // Analysis From Three Perspectives: Consumer, Employer and BrokerOver the past couple of years, the most used phrase in the employee benefits industry has been consumer-driven health care. Though its broadest definition may...
Jun 23 2005 // Seattle-based Kibble & Prentice announced the results of its annual employee benefits survey. With nearly 250 Washington state companies reporting, the results showed two surprising trends: the rate of increase of...
Jun 16 2005 // The Rhode Island Health Department has drafted guidelines that would govern drug imports from Canada, and help ensure the medications meet quality and safety standards in Rhode Island.The proposed rules would be another...
Jun 9 2005 // Concord, N.C. Police Officer Dana Lynn Beninati has been suspended without pay after allegedly passing fake prescriptions and billing her insurance company. Lynn was arrested at her home and charged with 23 counts of...
Jun 3 2005 // With prescription drug costs in workers’ compensation mounting at an annual rate of 13 percent, Professional Reviews Inc., a physician peer review company based in Atlanta, has launched Physician Pharmaceutical...
Apr 26 2005 // Dealing with the thorny issue of how to ease doctors’ rising medical malpractice insurance rates, Connecticut lawmakers have managed this year to whittle dozens of proposals down to two.The work isn’t finished...
Feb 21 2005 // A federal judge has sided with the state of Maine in an industry challenge to the constitutionality of a state law that requires pharmacy benefit managers to disclose side payments from drug companies and other financial...
Feb 21 2005 // When word spread that people injured by the fen-phen diet drug cocktail could share in a multibillion dollar legal settlement, law firms began sponsoring health screenings so large that a judge quipped that one...
Feb 7 2005 // A federal judge has sided with the state of Maine in an industry challenge to the constitutionality of a state law that requires pharmacy benefit managers to disclose side payments from drug companies and other financial...
Feb 3 2005 // Saying he wants to cut costs for business and boost benefits for injured workers, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry announced his comprehensive reform plan for the state’s workers’ compensation system.Based on the...
Dec 20 2004 // A Medicare prescription drug benefit for senior citizens through private plans is still more than a year away. But for state lawmakers and health officials preparing to help administer the complex new law, crunch time is...
Dec 20 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Union General is offering coverage for facilities specializing in care and treatment of drug and alcohol abusers, including for profit and nonprofit centers and halfway houses. Coverage available for...
Oct 6 2004 // Around and around they went.For some 90 minutes, Vice President Dick Cheney and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards debated and most often, disagreed on the issues, during the first and only Vice Presidential debate Tuesday...
Sep 27 2004 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has adopted amendments to its Model Regulation to Implement the NAIC Medicare Supplement Insurance Minimum Standards Model Act to make it compliant with the...
Sep 6 2004 // Soaring health care costs, coupled with the looming retirement of a record 77 million Americans starting in 2011, are casting a shadow of concern over states that worry their public health care systems can’t shoulder...
Aug 23 2004 // As a Florida resident who chose to return to Kentucky during my first try at retirement (a decision that drew puzzled looks from many), I appreciate many things about the Commonwealth—the natural beauty, the quality of...