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GOP Trying to Scare the Democrats? I Think They are Scaring Everyone As Non Participants

Does the average person care about how many seats one party or the other has, I don’t really think so as that does not impact their day to day life very much but does the average American think about healthcare reform, you bet. If you think it makes...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 4:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Congress, Washington DC, Politics, Entertainment, Democrats, collaboration, healthcare reform, Non participants, GOP, Ignorance, filibuster

Jackson Health System Announces the Closure of 2 Hospitals in the Miami-Dade Area – Not Enough Money To Keep the Doors Open

Jackson Health System is in financial hurt as governing board of the Jackson Health System that acts on behalf of the Miami-Dade County Commission is in a stew for finding new and faster emergency revenue to keep the hospitals open. After...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 1:45 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Hospitals, Budgets, Medical Services, Patients, Desperate Hospitals, healthcare reform, Jackson Health System, Haiti, emergency funds

Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare Cutting 500 Jobs – Food and Environmental Services to be Contracted Out

Outsourcing is what is happening here with many of the employees having a new boss, and reason is to save money. Over 50% of the US hospitals are now operating in the “red” and by shifting the cost over to a contract, benefits, health insurance...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 1:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Budgets, Economy, Layoffs, Benefits, Desperate Hospitals, Cobra, healthcare reform, labor, catch 22, Jewish Hospital & St Mary's Healthcare, Jewish Hospital

Blue Shield in Washington Buys Wellness/Fitness Company – Venture Capital Investors Were Pleased With ROI

With the talk of reform and policy cost improving, there’s still a lot of money in the till for acquisitions it appears. You can check out the website and again this i s one more program focused at employers. They have a gym in Seattle that...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 10:44 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Blue Shield, Fitness, wellness, heatlhcare reform, coaching, Kinetix

Insurance Plans at This Employer Get a Little More Difficult to Decipher – More Confusing Algorithms That Lead to More Cost Out of Pocket for Big Expenditures

The focus here is for more money spent on preventive care, but when the big ones come, such as a knee or hip, or even cardiac care, it will be more out of pocket for the employees here. It is lowering the cost on the preventive side, where we can...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 10:20 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Blue Cross, preventive medicine, Doctors, Algorithms, Blue Shield, formulas, ER, healthcare reform

Anthem Blue Cross Marketing – Working Overtime to Sell that Expensive Insurance in California

I just received this in my email today and for the last month or so, I am getting weekly door hanger advertisements as well, similar to the image below. With all the recent price increases coming out and talks in Washington, it appears they are...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 10:46 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Email, health insurance, Marketing, Blue Cross, Advertising, healthcare reform, mail, Anthem

Australia Announces Government Will Take Over 60% of the Funding for Country Hospital System For a Price

This is how one country is doing it, with the Government jumping in for relief. Granted Australia is not quite as bad in the economic hurt area as the US is right now so they have some additional positives going in their direction. What is...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 2:26 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Health IT, Hospitals, elections, integration, Australia, Standards, healthcare reform, Prime Minister, taxes

Virginia The First State to Pass Legislation to Protect Citizens From Being Forced to Purchase Health Insurance – If the Insurance Companies Were Non Profit It Might Make A World of Difference

This is not lining up against Obama Care in my eyes, it’s rather saying that it is almost non Constitutional to force citizens to purchase insurance from companies that are actively traded on the stock market and have a responsibility to shareholders...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 2:30 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Mayo, Kaiser Permanente, Obama, Cleveland Clinic, Wall Street, Non Profit, Algorithms, healthcare reform, Virgina, stockholders

Neurologists on Capitol Hill to Push for Health Care Reform Next Week

The first matter supported by the group in healthcare reform is a permanent fix for the Medicare physician reimbursement issue and replacing with one based on the Medical economic Index. They also want neurologists to be be recognized at the principal...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 12:37 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, medicare, Congress, Pay Cuts, Washington DC, Politics, Neurology, healthcare reform, Neurology on the Hill

Primary Doctor Talks About What He Makes and How Devastating Medicare Cuts Would Be

This tells the story pretty well and there’s stories just like it all over the US. Fixed costs have gone up over the years an .png?imgmax=800" width="167" height="172" alt="" /> d basically family practice doctors have not had any increase since...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2010 7:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, medicare, health insurance, medical billing, Congress, Politics, Coding, Doctors, Patients, Algorithms, healthcare reform, costs

Health Insurance Companies Summoned To Washington on March 23rd To Testify in the House

This week we have a 30 day extension on the Medicare/Tri-Care cuts and this meeting occurs about one week before the next deadline hits again. The pay cut situation has gone on for way too many years without a permanent solution. The testimonies...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2010 2:59 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, CEO, Congress, investigations, heatlth insurance, Testify, rate hikes

What Happened to the Healthcare X PRIZE – The 10 Million Donation from Wellpoint That Went Nowhere – PR Stuff

It looks like the doctor, Gary Michelson was right, 10 million was nowhere near enough and well, just look at where we are today with Congress. Do you think anyone in Congress wants to be a millionaire, no wait a minute, most of them already are...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 10:09 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Dogs, Grants, Charity, R and D, X-prize, Wellpoint, sterilization, cats, healthcare for pets, Gary Michelson

Virginia Becomes the 12th State To Legislate Payment Coverage for Telemedicine

All I have now is a press release so what they amount is, I can’t say, but lets’ hope it will make it worthwhile. The website is interesting full of available services and information in including TelMed, liability insurance to address risks associated...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 9:22 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Physicians, Mobility, Telemedicine, Doctors, Compensation, Heatlh Insurance, utilizaiton

Medicare Panel Requesting Cuts on Payments to Private Insurers for Medicare Advantage

This is the latest request from MedPac and with trying to equal out what is being paid out. Reports like this normally send panic to those who are participants in the Advantage plans. From one side of the coin there are many pharmacy benefit...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2010 10:02 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, medicare, health insurance, Seniors, Advantage Plans, drug plans, MedPac

Express Scripts Pilot To Begin Testing the Glow Cap Wireless Pill Container – Wireless Medication Monitoring

The pilot will start out with a small trial and will graduate to a larger trial based on chronic disease control medications, diabetes, cholesterol, and high blood pressure. Some of the comments in the article stated the messages were annoying but...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2010 2:17 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, Fines, personal health record, Express Scripts, overcharges, Vitality

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