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A product to overcome the effects of circumcision

SenSlip, the artificial retractable foreskin, yes this is a real product with patents. At least if one has had some perhaps not so good issues, there’s a product to help out, a sock or undergarment as it is called. If you are allergic to latex...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 10:37 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Insurance, Other Items of Interest

When you are denied health insurance

I think we saw this same story in Sicko, almost the exact same story so must be more of this going around with irregular periods now being a basis for denying insurance coverage. Another woman was turned down due to "history of infertility"...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 5:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Claims, pre-existing conditions, Sicko

Benefits Vendor Adds Assessment Tool

One more analysis program to drive employees and employers nuts in the search for recommendations for improving health and reducing risk , I would prefer my doctor giving me the sites and information to read as he is the qualified person who has my chart...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 3:14 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Risk Management, Blue Shield

Allstate testing “brain fitness” software on older drivers

I guess the local departments of motor vehicles aren’t doing the job in determining whether or not we are fit to drive, so here comes something new, software to determine how safe you are as a driver? Of course it will all be related to money and...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 11:06 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Safety, Allstate, policies

Private clinic medical insurance offered to 800,000 Canadian B.C residents

The catch is you need to have a 45 day or longer wait, or be put on the list that is anticipated to take that long. Premiums will be around $75 to about $225 a month. The coverage would allow for treatment in Private BC clinics or in the US...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 12:39 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Canada

EHR Adoption Remains Off in the Distance – Getting way to complicated

The comment below from a vendor is interesting, as he comments on the fact that a physician can make an extra $125,000 in 5 years, well some family care practice doctors today in California would like to just be making that in one year, as all the recent...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 7:41 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Charity, CMS, Linux, Donations, bankruptcies

First-In-The-Nation HIV Testing Coverage Bill

Without coverage how do you test for it? Good move and I can’t understand why a test would be denied in the first place if someone asked for it. BD AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the operator of the largest non-government HIV testing program...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 5:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance

The 2 New Hot Words in Healthcare: Algorithms and Whistleblowers

This story about Walgreens illustrates a little bit of both. After the economy and Wall Street news of the last couple of weeks, we should know now about how programmers set algorithms to select, process and deliver data. Need a refresher...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 3:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, Medicaid, Medications, Medicare contractor, Whistle Blower, Data, Data Base, Algorithms

Medicare's No-Pay Rule Is Small Potatoes for Hospitals' Bottom Line

Small potatoes maybe in the overall picture, but where I go for health care as far as a hospital may be one of the 50% in this country that are bordering on insolvency, so add on a legal suit to one of the “never-never” rules and then what happens? ...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 7:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, medicare, Hospitals, CMS, Medicare contractor, Never-Never

Violations Reported at 94% of Nursing Homes

94 percent of for-profit nursing homes were cited compared to 88% of non profit. 163 nursing facilites will receive an extra effort in the monitoring end of things, this is scary. For profit numbers somewhat indicate there’s more interest in a dollar...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 3:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Nursing Homes, Fines, Violations

Mayo & Johns Hopkins CEOs Want Buffer Between Congress & Medicare

Is this any indication on how the big healthcare institutions think of Congress, much less Medicare? We have lived through the Medicare nightmares for the last number of years and all we hear is cut, cut and cut again, as there’s such an over lack...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 3:06 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance

Clinical Data Online begins to market genomic testing to physicians and consumers through Website

This is just the start here and it seems to appear the marketing of genomic testing and labs is beginning to resemble the CT scanner rage of a few years ago, except this process is a bit more complicated and still needs more education from the medical...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 1:39 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Genomics, Physicians, Lab Tests, Pharmacogenetics

Schwarzenegger grapples with new medical insurance laws

If the governor is having a hard time, what about us? Read the article and you may be more confused on what can be covered and what is not. It keeps getting more confusing all the time with little or no relief in site. Who can keep track...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 1:38 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance

Divorce for Medicaid and Marry for Insurance – The American Healthcare System

“ There's nothing in the rules that says you can't get divorced for Medicaid”…first it was getting married for insurance benefits and now it’s getting divorced for Medicaid. Healthcare is starting to erode a lot of ethics here , and all...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2008 6:25 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Cancer, Medicaid, Seniors, Dissolution, Marriage, Medical Assistance, Divorce

Insured Amputee Still Faces Liens Against Home

The man had insurance coverage and had 21 liens from hospitals, doctors, etc. – was the HMO slow in paying? BD I now have an amputated left leg and a 'frozen' left shoulder. I was released from the rehabilitation hospital in July of...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 10:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance

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A product to overcome the effects of circumcision

When you are denied health insurance

Benefits Vendor Adds Assessment Tool

Allstate testing “brain fitness” software on older drivers

Private clinic medical insurance offered to 800,000 Canadian B.C residents

EHR Adoption Remains Off in the Distance – Getting way to complicated

First-In-The-Nation HIV Testing Coverage Bill

The 2 New Hot Words in Healthcare: Algorithms and Whistleblowers

Medicare's No-Pay Rule Is Small Potatoes for Hospitals' Bottom Line

Violations Reported at 94% of Nursing Homes

Mayo & Johns Hopkins CEOs Want Buffer Between Congress & Medicare

Clinical Data Online begins to market genomic testing to physicians and consumers through Website

Schwarzenegger grapples with new medical insurance laws

Divorce for Medicaid and Marry for Insurance – The American Healthcare System

Insured Amputee Still Faces Liens Against Home