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House Clears Way for Electronic Prescriptions of Powerful Drugs

Advocates of House Bill 4013 say that allowing doctors to prescribe Schedule II drugs electronically will make life easier for practitioners and pharmacists while cutting down on prescription forgeries.

The House unanimously passed its first healthcare bill of the 2014 session Thursday, a bipartisan measure that will allow physicians and nurse practitioners to file electronic prescriptions of Schedule II drugs, simplify

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Christopher David Gray

Simple, At-Home Test Will Detect Most Colorectal Cancers

Largest and most comprehensive review of ‘FIT’ finds it is an effective cancer-screening tool

Tests that require patients to collect a single stool sample at home and then send it to a lab for analysis will detect about 79 percent of colorectal cancers, according to a new evidence review published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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Kaiser Permanente

Union Upset About Elimination of Periodontal Hygiene Classification

The organization’s 17 periodontal hygienists are still at work, but earning less -- and may not be able to take care of their longtime patients

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Christen McCurdy

Kaiser Permanente Questions Appeals Process

When Kaiser turned someone down for insurance coverage because of a medical condition, they were told the Insurance Division would conduct an independent review but that didn’t occur.

July 15, 2013 -- Denying health insurance coverage for medical reasons will soon be a thing of the past when the Affordable Care Act comes into full swing January 1. But there are still many unanswered questions about what’s going to happen until then.

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Joanne Scharer

Shields Pushes to Empower DCBS as Effort to Put Insurance Under UTPA Flounders

Senate Bill 414 would give DCBS the authority to order insurance companies to pay meritorious claims to consumers, while House Bill 3160 — the push to put allow consumers and businesses to sue insurers for fraud under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act, which passed the House — is close to being dead in the Senate.

June 17, 2013 — Paul Terdal is not a lawyer, and he never intended on learning the Oregon insurance code backwards and forwards, but his sons have autism, and his health insurance company — Kaiser Permanente — wouldn’t pay for their prescribed treatment, applied behavioral analysis.

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Christopher David Gray

128 Students to Receive $2,000 KAISER Permanente Health Care Career Scholarships on May 18

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Kaiser Permanente

Long-Term Use of Prescription Painkillers Linked to Erectile Dysfunction

Kaiser Permanente Study First to Use Electronic Health Records to Document Link Between Prescription Opioid Use and ED Prescriptions

May 15, 2013 – Regularly taking prescription painkillers, also known as opioids, is associated with a higher risk of erectile dysfunction (ED) in men, according to a study published online today in the journal Spine.

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Kaiser Permanente