NEWS
By Erik Nelson and Erik Nelson,Staff Writer | November 5, 1992
Looking down his office driveway at the wooden ranch-style sign, the rusty horse trailer, chicken coop and Jerseys grazing in the back pasture, it might be difficult to place Dr. Melvin Stern on the cutting edge of a hot national issue.But walk up along the split-rail fence and into his crowded waiting room, and his agenda might be easier to understand."For every dollar spent immunizing kids, we save $10 in potential cost for caring for sick kids," says Dr. Stern, sitting in his cramped inner office overlooking the pasture.
NEWS
By Robert Pear and Robert Pear,New York Times News Service | June 19, 1991
WASHINGTON -- In a departure from longstanding practice in the health insurance industry, which has emphasized the treatment and cure of disease without paying for much preventive care, Blue Cross and Blue Shield offered yesterday to provide insurance for routine tests to detect cancer, heart disease and other illnesses.The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association issued guidelines for a lifetime schedule of medical tests to detect adult diseases and said it would offer coverage for these services.
NEWS
By Jonathan Bor and Jonathan Bor,Staff Writer Staff writer Jackie Powder contributed to this article | December 23, 1993
The Clinton administration dispatched two top officials to Maryland yesterday to tout its health care reform package, each promising the plan would improve the health of the nation's children by covering preventive care.Carol M. Browner, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, toured the lead poisoning prevention clinic at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, which currently treats 800 children who have high levels of lead in their blood.She said the reform package, which goes before Congress next year, would widen the use of blood-lead screenings by mandating insurance coverage.
HEALTH
By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun | February 29, 2012
Kaiser Permanente will open a new medical facility in Lansdowne next year as part of a long-term strategy to double the number of patients it serves in the Mid-Atlantic region in the next decade. The health care provider said Wednesday that the 130,000-square-foot building will take a one-stop-shopping, approach, with many specialty services offered under one roof, much like California-based Kaiser's facilities on the West Coast. Kaiser also will build three other new facilities by 2013 in Montgomery County, Fairfax County, Va., and Washington.
NEWS
June 20, 1991
When half the beds at Johns Hopkins Hospital are filled with people whose illnesses or injuries could have been prevented, insurance coverage for preventive medical care seems to be common sense. Yet many insurance policies do not cover the simple procedures that can detect problems before they mushroom into serious, expensive conditions. Why? Because, too often, employers are not prepared to pay increased fees up front for savings down the line.Even so, this week the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association announced new guidelines for its 73 independent member plans, recommending that they provide coverage for routine screenings for such conditions as breast cancer, lung cancer, heart disease, diabetes, thyroid disease and osteoporosis.
NEWS
By Roni Rabin and Roni Rabin,NEWSDAY | May 12, 2004
A report card that evaluated the quality of U.S. health care has concluded that American adults receive only about half of the treatments recommended for both acute and chronic conditions and half the recommended preventive care. The Rand Corp. report, based on one of the largest studies of health care quality ever undertaken, says inadequate care translates into tens of thousands of deaths and unnecessary complications, posing "serious threats" to the public's health. The study was published in the journal Health Affairs.