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Generically, a professional engaged in the delivery of health services, including physicians, dentists, nurses, podiatrists, optometrists, clinical psychologists, etc. Hospitals and long term care facilities are also providers. The Medicare program uses the term "provider" more narrowly, to mean participating institutions: hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, etc.

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Genetic testing for breast cancer: Psychological and social impact

Published December 4, 2008, 7:08 pm, Mayo Clinic

Genetic testing to estimate breast and ovarian cancer risk may elicit many emotional and psychological reactions. How will getting the news that you've tested positive or negative affect you?

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Mo. company backs out of Rehab Hospital deal

Published December 4, 2008, 6:55 pm, The Woonsocket Call

NORTH SMITHFIELD — A transaction to convert ownership of the Landmark Medical Center-owned Rehabilitation Hospital of Rhode Island on Eddie Dowling Highway to a Missouri-based company that provides physical rehabilitation program management services has collapsed after the company withdrew from the deal on Thursday.

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Woman at Center of Anorexia Lawsuit Against Horizon Talks to WPIX

Published December 4, 2008, 6:06 pm, WPIX 11 New York

FAIRHAVEN, N.J. - A week after the largest health insurance provider in New Jersey agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought by parents of children suffering from anorexia, one of the women involved in the case is speaking out in a WPIX Exclusive. Lara Drazin says she started starving herself to death at the age of 14. Now 18, Drazin says at one time she did lose hope on recovering. ...

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Health plan ignites debate

Published December 4, 2008, 5:35 pm, The Bona Venture

The St. Bonaventure University health insurance options available to faculty and staff effective January 2009 have many university employees struggling to swallow the increase in insurance costs and the administration's lack of communication. "The new health insurance plan is not going to break me, and I won't be as hurt as a lot of people, but I fear people will choose to not get health ...

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Government hopes to lure doctors, nurses by paying student loans

Published December 4, 2008, 5:12 pm, 9 News Denver

BRIGHTON - Dr. Kelly McMullen went into medicine after seeing how people in Ecuador live without any physicians nearby. Now, she sees the same problem in rural America.

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Published December 4, 2008, 5:07 pm, R News

• Local Firm Becomes iPhone Developer HoliMoli! Media is in the news. The local firm specializing in educational applications became a certified Apple iPhone developer.

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Research group: Binghamton MSA is in "expansion"

Published December 4, 2008, 5:02 pm, Press & Sun-Bulletin

Broome and Tioga counties are among a handful of regions in the nation -- and the only part of New York -- that are classified as in "expansion," according to a recent report by Moody's Economy.com, but that label isn't necessarily an indicator of the area's economic reality.

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Don Yee Named President of OptumHealth Vision Care

Published December 4, 2008, 4:55 pm, Finanzen.net

OptumHealth ...

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Don Yee Named President of OptumHealth Vision Care

Published December 4, 2008, 4:50 pm, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn.----OptumHealth Inc. today announced that it has named Don Yee president of its Vision business, which offers the fastest growing managed vision care plan in the nation with more than 18 million participants and 27,000 providers.

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Opportunity knocks for local nonprofit

Published December 4, 2008, 4:33 pm, Atlanticville

LONG BRANCH — When opportunity came knocking at the door of a local nonprofit, the organization jumped at the chance to expand its services to the community.

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