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Sickest patients face insurance denials: "They won't help me"
31 Mar 2025 09:25 GMT
HENRICO, Va. — Sheldon Ekirch spends a lot of time on hold with her health insurance company.
Sometimes, as the minutes tick by and her frustration mounts, Ekirch, 30, opens a meditation app on her phone. It was recommended by her psychologist to help with …
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America's Health Insurance Plans Annual Institute & Expo Showcases Top-Performing Payer Technologies, Announces 2024 Black Book Survey Results
10 Jun 2024 17:24 GMT
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LAS VEGAS, NV / ACCESSWIRE / June 10, 2024 / Black book Research recognizes the leading companies across diverse IT market segments at the AHIP conference in Las Vegas this week. Based on the largest industry client survey …
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Aeroflow Health Announces its Participation at America's Health Insurance Plans’ AHIP 2024 Flagship Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada
07 Jun 2024 12:45 GMT
ASHEVILLE, N.C., June 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aeroflow Health, a pioneering healthcare company that leverages cutting-edge technology to support the delivery of medical products and services, today announced its attendance and participation in the …
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Power 250: Introducing the 75 most powerful businesspeople in Western New York
28 Mar 2025 09:28 GMT
Today we wrap up our countdown of our annual list of powerful people in Western New York.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Business First has been highlighting the most powerful business people in Western New York since 2013.
This year's countdown wraps up today with …
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Big Pharma's $13.8B DTC ad spend drives drug costs
20 Mar 2025 11:48 GMT
A new analysis from the Campaign for Sustainable Rx Pricing has reignited debate over direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising, revealing that the 10 largest pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. spent nearly $14 billion on promotional efforts in 2023 …
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Obesity won't be solely defined by BMI under new guidelines
29 Jan 2025 09:18 GMT
A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for the disease caused by excess body fat.
Under …
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End of the Line for BMI? Experts Propose New Obesity Definition
16 Jan 2025 01:17 GMT
A group of global health experts are proposing changes to how obesity is defined and diagnosed.
Their aim is to move beyond the long-criticized Body Mass Index (BMI) in favor of combining other useful metrics.
Findings detailed in a report published in The …
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Global experts propose new obesity diagnosis method beyond BMI
15 Jan 2025 19:23 GMT
A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for the disease caused by excess body fat.Under …
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Experts row back on ‘flawed’ BMI as new definition of obese proposed
15 Jan 2025 08:51 GMT
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