Labour and Employment
The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury (the “Departments”) recently issued Interim Final Regulations (the “Regulations”) on grandfathered health plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (”PPACA”). Grandfathering allows employers to continue health plans that were in existence on March 23, 2010 and exempts such plans from a [...]
Dental Health Plans
Business notes
• Mission Health System in Asheville has selected Ronald A. Paulus, M.D., MBA, to be the new president and CEO of Mission Health System and Mission Hospital.
MVP Health Care Connects Capital Region Physicians and Patients Through RelayHealth
As part of MVP Health Care’s corporate initiative to improve health care quality by promoting primary care and the adoption of electronic medical records, MVP has enabled more than one hundred Capital Region providers to offer their patients the convenience and efficiency of secure online [...]
Free Healthcare at CityFest
At CityFest, a small help goes a long way.
Dental researchers learn human beta defensin-3 ignites in oral cancer growth
Detecting oral cancer in its earliest stages can save the lives of the nearly 40,500 people diagnosed annually. But early detection has been hard. Researchers learned a biomarker, called human beta defensin-3, which may serve as an early warning. The defensin is present in all [...]
