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UnitedHealthcare Lays Off 180 Employees In Orange County-Initial Notification Sent By Instant Message to Those Affected

Talk about drama when getting a lay off notice, an instant message to meet in the lobby and then taken to a hotel for the official word. Drama king tactics seem to exist with layoffs today. It sounds almost like people are being round...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2011 3:15 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, medicare, health insurance, UnitedHealthcare, Orange County, Layoffs, Profits, revenue

Sanofi Uses Automated Calling System And Emails For Last Round of 1700 Layoffs–Fired by the HR Textbox

Algorithms can be programmed for many uses and this one seem so very impersonal with first a mass email effort that contained instructions to call in to a 800 number and a code. An automated voice according to this article told those who were going...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 11:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Pharma, Code, Layoffs, Algorithms, Phone, Sanofi-Aventis, HR, drug reps, employees

Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital Layoffs Coming Up to 120 Jobs–Medical Employment at a Standstill in California

Salinas is about 100 miles or so south of San Francisco and due to escalating costs and the need to save money layoffs have been announced. Interesting enough the local Healthcare Union stated the hospital should begin reducing the salaries paid...

Published Sun, Dec 12 2010 2:37 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, healthcare, California, Layoffs, Budget, Salinas, March LifeCare Campus, March Air Force Base, Salinas Valley Memorial hospital

FDA Lays Off Senior Staff Members to Make Room for Younger People-Probationary Incompetence or the Opportunity to Resign

The article states that Beth Martino felt uncomfortable around those who know more than she does and wanted to be surrounded by more people closer to her age. Was it going to also cost more to keep those employees on the government health plan too...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2010 5:36 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, FDA, Layoffs, Sebelius, specialists, 50, incompetence, journalists, age

John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix Closes Birthing Center–Lay Offs Will Follow

This one kind of hits home as I grew up about 2 blocks from the hospital in Phoenix and watched it grow over the years and family members have have surgeries performed there. Like many other stories we have heard in the news, this is not the first...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 12:31 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, Budgets, Layoffs, Phoenix, John C. Lincoln Hospitl, birthing center

UnitedHealthcare Begins Pharmacy Saver for Medicare Plan Members January 1st-Better Record Tracking for Compliance at $2.00 For Generic Drugs or Existing Co-Pay

Here we go again, half off of the $4.00 prescriptions already offered by Kroger, Walmart and others. This may not sound like a big deal if you are already paying $4.00 but your data and prescription refill information is like gold and part of the...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2010 5:25 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Pay for Performance, Safeway, doctor, Primary Care, Layoffs, Outsourcing, Algorithms, Express Scripts, Ingenix, pharmacists, Kroger, wellness, transactions, analysis, UnitedHealthare, P4P

Judge States NYC Public Hospitals Can’t Lay Off 150 Labor Employees-A Sound Methodology Was Not Submitted

I am guessing the case for the layoffs and replacements were not substantiated and the employees stated it would put patients at risk. This is the first I have read something of this sort but the article did not state what percentage of the entire...

Published Sat, Nov 11 2010 12:55 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, Heatlhcare, Layoffs, New York, judge, labor

Bayer Cuts 4500 Jobs Worldwide–Press Release Went Out Early-How Many Employees Found Out - Will Have 2500 News Jobs In China on the Roadmap

You can read the entire press release here where it states that they need to expand in Asia and China is the good guess and there could also be other countries involved, but most of pharma and many medical device companies are already heavily invested...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2010 3:55 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, Budgets, China, Research and Development, Layoffs, Germany, Bayer, reform, Bayer Schering, emerging markets

Roche Pharma to Cut 4800 Jobs- Sales, Marketing and Research and Development

Here in the US, Genentech, known for their cancer drugs and research is expected to be hit as well, although no particular numbers are out. Last year Roche took over Genentech for $47 billion, huge purchase here, but the company always had maintained...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2010 1:16 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Pharma, Biotech, Cancer, Oncology, Marketing, Genentech, Roche, Research and Development, Sales, Layoffs, RNAi

Express Scripts- New Program to Contact and Predict Patients Who May Not Be Taking Their Medicine Based On Ingenix Algorithms–We Want the Revenue Please Don’t Stop

Ingenix started selling its diabetes-prediction service in February to insurers and employers, one more way they make money. I would think information this vital and helps with compliance could be open source or at least free so further analysis...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2010 1:32 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Pay for Performance, doctor, Primary Care, Layoffs, Outsourcing, Algorithms, Express Scripts, Walgreens, Ingenix, pharmacists, wellness, transactions, analysis, YMCA, UnitedHealthare, P4P, CVS. lawsuitsm Pfizer

Sanofi-Aventis Announces Dropping 1,700 Jobs–13% of Their US Workforce

The company is facing generic competition just like many of the other major pharmaceutical companies and also in the news they are attempting to purchase another biotech company, Genzyme. Sanofi Proposal to Acquire Genzyme Rejected–Looking for Other Alternatives...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2010 4:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, Biotech, FDA, Layoffs, contamination, virus, Sanofi-Aventis, Genzyme, Enzyme deficiencies, orphan drugs

The Brits Get Viagra At Tesco With No Prescription But Screening for High Blood Pressure, Diabetes and Cholesterol Will be Required by the Pharmacist

This is no a cheap drug by any means and a while back I did a post to show what it costs here in the US. What Does Viagra Cost? Here in the US Pfizer could not get the trademark on the name Viagra as it the active ingredient was said to be too close in...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2010 6:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, Viagra, Pfizer, Economy, ED, Layoffs, Horny Goat Weed, prescription, TESCO

Rite Aid Distribution Center in Rome New York To Close by Next Year–Some Employees May Be Able To Transfer

The facility will be completely closed by July of next year so it sounds like there’s some time for employees to begin looking or trying to make alternative plans. According to the article the building was old, the roof leaked and there was no additional...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2010 10:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Layoffs, Rite Aid, drug stores, taxes, warehouse

Memorial Hospital in Gulfport, Mississippi To Lay Off 47 Workers–Reminder This Area Was Also a Victim of Katrina

We always focus on New Orleans but there were other areas hard hit 5 years ago too and this is one of them. The reasons slated here for the layoffs is back to the same old story, money. Reductions in Medicare and Medicaid are at the top of...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 1:39 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid, Budgets, Layoffs, healthcare reform, Gulfport, Mississippi

Children's Hospitals In Minneapolis Plans Cut Backs and Layoffs of up to 250

Children’s Hospitals are a non profit system and through early retirements, not filling vacated positions and some layoffs by November the magic number here is projected to be around 250 positions. Treating a large number of Medicaid patients has...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2010 11:30 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospitals, Medicaid, Layoffs, healthcare reform, non profits, Minneapolis, Children's Hospitals

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