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Military, civilians partner to treat mental healthFORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Fort Campbell is reaching out to the medical community in Kentucky to help address the challenges of post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury among returning service members and veterans. |
October Issue 3 2012 | |
State wants study of Medicaid expansion costsThe state is soliciting proposals for a study on the cost of Medicaid expansion in Alaska. |
October Issue 2 2012 | |
Mass. gov: Drug firm may have misled regulatorsThe specialty pharmacy linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak may have misled regulators and done work beyond the scope of its state license, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Wednesday. |
October Issue 1 2012 | |
Commission to focus on ways to manage benefit costsYou’re in business and you see that your employee health benefits costs are rising 15 percent a year. |
October Issue 1 2012 | |
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Businesses shouldn’t wait to deal with health care reformAs implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Jan. 1, 2014, continues to draw near, employers are faced with grasping what the law means for their business, both in terms of their ability to comply and the possibility of additional health insurance costs on their bottom line. The 2012 Alaska State of Reform Health Policy Conference held on Sept. 27 at the Dena’ina Civic & Convention Center in Anchorage, confronted these issues directly. |
October Issue 1 2012 |
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Upgrades coming online for Alaska health care facilitiesAround Alaska, new health care projects are at every stage of construction, from breaking ground to opening doors. |
October Issue 1 2012 |
Report: Premium hikes for top Medicare drug plansWASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of seniors enrolled in some of the most popular Medicare prescription drug plans face double-digit premium hikes next year if they don’t shop for a better deal, says a private firm that analyzes the highly competitive market. |
October Issue 1 2012 | |
Q&A: Tumultuous times ahead for health care industryKaren Perdue, president of the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association, shared her insights on the state of the health care industry in a Q&A with the Journal. |
October Issue 1 2012 | |
Incentives for wellness programs included in health care reformWith uncertainty surrounding how the roughly 2,700-page law will impact benefit costs for employers, fostering a healthier workplace, and in turn healthier employees, as a way of driving benefit costs down, was an overriding message at the State of Reform health policy conference. |
October Issue 1 2012 | |
Saving money with smart open enrollment changesEmployers will soon be offering workers their yearly opportunity to make changes to their health care benefits. All too often this open-enrollment period has required combing through pages and pages of confusing insurance terms. |
September Issue 4 2012 |
