Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia Foundation MPH Student Support Fund Application due date: February 10, 2014 Applications should be emailed to Ginny Ingels, ggi@uga.edu, as email attachments by 5:00 pm on February 10, 2014. Please name the application file with your last name_ bcbs (eg: ingels_bcbs.docx) Award Purpose: The purpose of the Fund is to provide a scholarship to an MPH student. If this scholarship is awarded to a UGA employee, it will be awarded as a special pay through payroll, and there will be tax implications. read more...
Phaedra Corso named UGA Foundation Professor of Human Health Phaedra Corso, Ph.D., MPA, professor of health policy and management in the University of Georgia College of Public Health, has been named the inaugural UGA Foundation Professor of Human Health. The professorship was approved by the Board of Regents at its September 2013 meeting and became effective Jan. 1. read more...
Out-of-Network, Out of Luck? A Growing Body of Caselaw Addressing… It's become a common scenario for medical providers: a provider treats a patient covered by employer-provided health insurance for which the provider is out-of-network, receives an assignment of benefits from the patient and is reimbursed by the benefits plan administrator at a rate much lower than the amount charged, if at all. The provider then embarks upon the often Sisyphean journey of navigating the plan's lengthy and nebulous appeals process....
CDC Community Guide Internship Opportunity! New internship opportunity for Summer 2014-- appropriate for EPI, HPRB, and HPAM! CDC-Community Guide: Community Guide is requesting students to function as abstractors on the topic of Cancer interventions. To learn more about the Community Guide go to: http://www.thecommunityguide.org If you are interested, please send a resume and cover-letter to Nina Cleveland: ninac64@uga.edu...
