PolyXen

PolyXen® is an enabling technology for protein drug delivery.  It uses the natural polymer polysialic acid (PSA) to prolong the active life and improve the stability of therapeutic peptides...

Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Arizona Expands Medicare Product Choices For Annual Open Enrollment Period

PHOENIX, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ) is now offering Arizona seniors new Medicare Advantage health plans through its affiliate, Blue Cross Blue...

Anthem Expands Medicare Advantage Offerings to Three New Counties in New Hampshire

Anthem is expanding its Medicare Advantage (MA) offerings to three new counties in New Hampshire in time for the 2013 Annual Election Period (AEP), which is when most people buy t...

Anthem Expands Medicare Advantage Offerings to 13 New Counties in Maine

Anthem is expanding its Medicare Advantage (MA) offerings to 13 new counties in Maine in time for the 2013 Annual Election Period (AEP), which is when most people buy their Medica...

Blue Shield of California Medicare Plans Receive Four Stars for Quality

Sacramento County Medicare Advantage Plan Earns Separate Award for Overall Value SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Blue Shield of California's 2013 Medicare Advant...

Anthem Expands Medicare Advantage Offerings to Three New Counties in Missouri

Anthem is expanding its Medicare Advantage (MA) offerings to three new counties in Missouri in time for the 2013 Annual Election Period (AEP), which is when most people buy their...

Shield Therapeutics Selects OpenClinica Enterprise

Waltham, MA & Wollerau, Switzerland (PRWEB) January 04, 2013 OpenClinica, LLC and Shield Therapeutics announces that Shield Therapeutics has selected the OpenClinica Enterprise software for its...

Medicare Questions Answered at Local Stores throughout Ohio by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Representatives

Representatives of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio will be in nearly 200 stores across the state during Medicare’s Annual Election Period (AEP) to answer people’s qu...

MedicareBlue Rx Drug Plan Earns Federal Government's Top Rating

"Five star" status expands enrollment opportunity throughout all of 2013 EAGAN, Minn., Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A special designation from the federal government is making i...

Results of the Medicare Health Support disease-management pilot program.

In the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, Congress required the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to test the commercial disease-management model in the Medicare fee-for-service program.

ZPICs.

The Zone Program Integrity Contractors (ZPICs) program is a government effort to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare. ZPICs perform a range of medical review, data analysis, and Medicare aud...

Shield or not to shield? Postoperative protection after modern cataract surgery.

Flaws in the medicare readmission penalty.

Flaws in the Medicare Readmission Penalty This letter discusses unintended consequences of the Medicare readmission policy, which could have adverse effects on hospitals.

The insurance value of medicare.

Medicare should provide access to care and protection from catastrophic spending while not being so generous that beneficiaries overconsume low-value care, thus driving up costs. Setting cost sharing...