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Officials warn of Obamacare scams
State Insurance Director and Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor has issued an alert warning consumers to be wary of telephone con artists leveraging the confusion surrounding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to steal Ohioans’ personal information. Scammers billing themselves as government representatives have contacted consumers across the state, asking ...
Budget cuts limit cancer treatment options
Cancer clinics across southwest Ohio are struggling to provide drug therapies for many of their patients as a result of Medicare cuts in reimbursements for cancer drugs included in the government’s spending cuts known as sequestration. The 2 percent cut in drug reimbursements not only applies to the average cost ...
Are you a Medicare patient receiving chemotherapy drug treatments?
Are you a Medicare patient receiving chemotherapy drug treatments who has been referred to a hospital for treatment because your doctor can no longer afford to provide the drugs for you? If so, we would like to hear your story. Please contact medical reporter Randy Tucker at (937) 225-2437 or ...
Medicare drug tab $2.55B for older and disabled Ohioans
Elderly and disabled Ohioans were charged nearly $2.6 billion in drug costs in 2010, most of it spent on prescriptions for medications to treat hypertension, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, according to a report Monday from the independent investigative news organization ProPublica. Ohio pharmacies filled nearly 3 million prescriptions ...
Hospital charges vary widely for same procedures
New government data showing the amounts U.S. hospitals’ charge Medicare for certain procedures confirm what consumer groups have suspected for years: hospitals, even in the same or nearby communities, can charge wildly different amounts for the same procedures. In Ohio, for example, the average charge to implant a permanent pacemaker ...
High-deductible health plans to impact Ohioans
A growing number of Ohio employers are giving their workers just a single choice for their health insurance or encouraging them in other ways to sign up for high-deductible health plans that generally carry a higher out-of-pocket costs than traditional employer-sponsored health plans.About 663,000 Ohioans were covered by high-deductible plans ...
Dealing with high health-care costs?
Are you among the estimated one-third of U.S. adults who have you put off getting medical care because the out-of-pocket costs of your high-deductible health plans are just too high? If so, we’d like to hear your story. Please contact health care reporter Randy Tucker at (937) 225-2437 or rtucker@coxohio.com.
Local amputees: Boston Marathon victims will recover, inspire others
Adapting to life without a foot or leg can be a daunting task, but the spectators and runners who lost at least one limb in the Boston Marathon bombings last week will be aided in their recovery by advances in prosthetic limb technology. It's technology that could have at least ...
WSU officially breaks ground on $37M research facility
Wright State University officials broke ground Thursday on a new $37 million state-of-the-art laboratory building that will bring neuroscience and engineering researchers together under one roof. The four-story, 90,000-square-foot Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration (NEC) Building is to be completed in early 2015 and will employ more than 100 faculty, staff and ...
Complaints of weight-loss pills continue to rise in Ohio
Increasingly popular over-the-counter dietary supplements were responsible for more than half of all major drug recalls in the United States in the past decade and have been tied to a sharp spike in complaints to the Central Ohio Poison Center over the same period, according to new data from medical ...
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