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HCC Awarded Grant by CareFirst
Harford Community College has received a $25,000 grant from CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield to support development of an electronic health records system that will bolster training of the institution's nearly 2,200 Nursing and Allied Health students....Tags: Harford Community College, Johns Hopkins University, Medical Specialization, Financial Aid, Howard Community College
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Obama seeks to allay healthcare law concerns
WASHINGTON — President Obama sought to tamp down fears Tuesday that his landmark healthcare law would raise insurance costs and cause other disruptions, saying most Americans were already benefiting from it and others soon would. "Any time you'...
Tags: Kathleen Sebelius, Business, Max Baucus, Washington, DC, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce
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Md. hospitals say rate vote means jobs cuts
Maryland hospitals said they will need to cut jobs and patient services after a state panel voted Wednesday to keep hospital rates flat, despite a 2 percent cut in Medicare payments required by federal sequestration. "There are significant job cuts...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Obstetrics
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Rate-setting commission recommends no increase in hospital charges
The state's hospitals would absorb all of the 2 percent Medicare cuts required by federal sequestration under a proposal released Thursday by the state panel that sets hospital rates. The recommendation by the staff of the Health Services Cost Review...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Insurance, Government Health Care
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CareFirst proposes 25 percent rate increase under health care reform
Blaming the cost to implement health care reform, the state's largest health insurer has proposed eye-popping rate increases to state regulators for individuals and small businesses. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield wants to raise rates an average of 25...
Tags: Senior Health, Executive Branch, Business, Healthcare Policies, Small Businesses
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CareFirst sticker shock
The Obamacare critics were no doubt gleeful this week when CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield proposed average rate increases of 25 percent for its individual HMO customers next year, when it will be required to follow the requirements of the Patient...
Tags: Howard County, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Consumers, Health Insurance Cost, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Hospitals concerned about state rate-setting proposal
A state plan to tie medical spending to the growth of the economy is making hospital executives uneasy. Executives support the spirit of the plan proposed by the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which seeks to reduce health spending by...
Tags: Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Government Health Care, Medicaid
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Bromwell was among state's most powerful
Sun ReporterIn Annapolis, Thomas L. Bromwell invariably sported a huge gold ring he described as "big and gaudy and loud" - much like himself. A big man with a thick Bawlamer accent, the former tavern owner from Perry Hall was a colorful and imposing figure during...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Health, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice
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Driver's license bill veto is urged
Sun StaffThe annual campaign by interest groups to persuade Maryland's governor to sign -- or veto -- legislation sitting on his desk is taking an unusually emotional twist this spring. In a radio spot airing statewide, a father who lost his son Sept. 11, 2001,...Tags: Family, Defense, Demonstration, Executive Branch, National Security
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Dr. Philip J. Ferris, Franklin Square surgery chairman
Dr. Philip J. Ferris, former longtime chairman of the department of surgery at Franklin Square Medical Center, died Nov. 8 of cardiac arrest at his Lutherville home. He was 79.
"He was just a great man. He was down-to-earth and fun, but at the same...Tags: Breast Cancer, Hunting, Johns Hopkins University, Ocean City, Colleges and Universities
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Insurance co-op to start with $65 million federal loan
A Maryland group led by Howard County health officer Peter Beilenson has received a $65 million loan under federal health reform to start the state's first insurance co-op, a consumer-owned nonprofit that will compete against private insurers to sell...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Howard County, Medical Specialization, Government Health Care, Career and Workplace
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Health care reform: Caring about costs, too
By establishing a health benefit exchange and expanding Medicaid coverage, Maryland is on a path to extend access to affordable health care to hundreds of thousands of individuals, families and small businesses. For our progress to be sustainable,...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Family, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Safety at Work, Business
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