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Georgia’s health outcomes took a hit from high mortality rates for residents with kidney disease (18.87 deaths per 100,000 residents) and strokes (44.27 deaths per 100,000).
RAND Health Insurance Experiment. The RAND Health Insurance Experiment (RAND HIE) was an experimental study from 1974 to 1982 of health care costs, utilization and outcomes in the United States, which assigned people randomly to different kinds of plans and followed their behavior.
The Anthem medical data breach was a medical data breach of information held by Elevance Health, known at that time as Anthem Inc. . On February 4, 2015, Anthem, Inc. disclosed that criminal hackers had broken into its servers and had potentially stolen over 37.5 million records that contain personally identifiable information from its servers.
Healthcare in Georgia is provided by a universal health care system under which the state funds medical treatment in a mainly privatized system of medical facilities. In 2013, the enactment of a universal health care program triggered universal coverage of government-sponsored medical care of the population and improving access to health care services.
A former Georgia insurance commissioner who made a failed Republican run for governor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud. John W. Oxendine of Johns Creek entered the ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the health insurance rate review program in order to protect consumers from unreasonable rate increases. [1] Through this program, proposed premium increases in the small group and individual markets that are above a threshold amount (ten percent or more, as of February 2014) are reviewed by states or ...
Premiums for a healthy 55-year-old woman can range from $1,500 to $7,000 a year, depending on the benefits, according to the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance. If she’s healthy ...
An insurance company, as defined in section 26.1-02-01, health maintenance organization, or any other entity providing a plan of health insurance subject to state insurance regulation may not deliver, issue, execute or renew a health insurance policy or health service contract unless confidentiality of medical information is assured pursuant to ...