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		<title>Insurance Company to Offer Same-Sex Health Benefits</title>
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Story Published: Jul 28, 2008 at 8:30 PM EDT

 By     John Borsa &#124; WKBW.com
 Blue Cross &#38; Blue Shield of Western New York announced on Monday that it would immediately begin offering spousal health insurance benefits to same-sex couples that have been legally married.
The change in policy comes three weeks after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcarebpo.wordpress.com&blog=3665921&post=114&subd=healthcarebpo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is That Business Legitimate or a Scam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FTC is drafting new rules to counter unfair practices. In the meantime, aspiring business owners should apply lots of common sense
by John Tozzi
July 23, 2008, 1:33PM EST &#124; BusinessWeek

The Internet is littered with offers for home-based business opportunities that promise big profits for easy work. But many of these offers, which range from envelope [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcarebpo.wordpress.com&blog=3665921&post=112&subd=healthcarebpo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indians write the BPO script in Philippines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[22 Jul, 2008, 0745 hrs IST
Deepshikha Monga &#38; Chaitali Chakravarty, ET Bureau
The Economic Times

NEW DELHI: BPO firms, which have so far been big job creators in India, are now shifting employees from here to emerging outsourcing destinations, including the Philippines.
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		<title>Head to head on health care</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jul. 14, 2008 02:35 PM
The Arizona Republic





Barack Obama

John McCain







Uninsured
Obama: Advocates a new national health plan that would be similar to the Medicare program that provides coverage for senior citizens. All children would be covered, either through an expanded State Children&#8217;s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP) or private plans. Young adults could be carried on their parents&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcarebpo.wordpress.com&blog=3665921&post=106&subd=healthcarebpo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>L.A. city attorney sues insurer over health policy cancellations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, right, meets with Ana Maria and Augustine Simoes and their attorney, William Shernoff, before announcing a lawsuit accusing Blue Shield of California of illegally canceling the health insurance coverage of hundreds of Californians. The couple say they were saddled with $60,000 in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcarebpo.wordpress.com&blog=3665921&post=104&subd=healthcarebpo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Injured By a Spacecraft? There’s a Diagnostic Code for That</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 15, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
By Jacob Goldstein &#124; The Wall Street Journal Health Blog

So we’ve got this patient here who was injured in this spaceship accident. You know, just a routine, uh, orbital mishap. But how do we account for that? Oh, right, it’s ICD-9 code E845 — “Accident involving spacecraft.”
Apropos of nothing in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcarebpo.wordpress.com&blog=3665921&post=102&subd=healthcarebpo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Software, BPO industry growth will slow down in 2009: NASSCOM</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economic Times
NEW DELHI: The software and business process outsourcing (BPO) industry&#8217;s growth is expected to slow down considerably next financial year, the organisation representing the Indian software industry says in its annual report released Wednesday.
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 14, 2008 &#124; The Hindu
The BPO industry in India is facing the challenge of finding quality human resources, given the current attrition rate.


 

 Attrition is emerging as a key business concern for organisations. It is turning into a bigger issue than attracting talent. The annual attrition rate is 20-30 per cent (reduction in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcarebpo.wordpress.com&blog=3665921&post=100&subd=healthcarebpo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acute Cost and Growth Pressures to Drive Large-Scale BPO and ITO Outsourcing/Offshoring in Healthcare Sector over Next Three to Five Years</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 08, 2008 09:30 AM EDT &#124; BUSINESS WIRE
HOUSTON &#8212; The slumping economy may be slowing deal flow in some sectors, but it is accelerating adoption of outsourcing in the healthcare industry as it struggles to streamline its back-office and ramp up to meet increased demand for services as the U.S. population ages, according to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcarebpo.wordpress.com&blog=3665921&post=98&subd=healthcarebpo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christopher Lee, Washington Post Staff Writer
washingtonpost.com &#124; Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Medicare has paid as much as $92 million since 2000 to medical suppliers who billed the government for wheelchairs and other home equipment purportedly prescribed by physicians who, according to records, were dead at the time, congressional investigators said yesterday.
The Centers for Medicare and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcarebpo.wordpress.com&blog=3665921&post=97&subd=healthcarebpo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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