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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

85 Year Old Surgeon Gets 3 Years Probation in Death of Patient Under Going Cosmetic Surgery-Economic Times With Retired MDs Re-Entering Practicing Medicine?

You have to wonder about this case as yes it is unfortunate the woman died and the article states he had not performed surgery in over 5 years, so one has to ask, why now? Was this driven by economic times as an MD who needed the money? Is...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 12:12 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Lawsuit, Plastic Surgery, Patient, California, Heatlhcare, Orange County, Medical License, Economics, Money, surgeon

Orange County Conference Markets Medical Marijuana To Seniors at Laguna Woods

Speakers talked about micro molecular components of cannabis during the Medical Cannabis Convention. One woman showed off her glycerite she uses for her multiple sclerosis pain in which she puts a few drops under her tongue for pain relief. ...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2011 12:35 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Pain management, Heatlhcare, Orange County, Seniors, Medical Marijuana, senior care, Medical Cannabis, Laguna Woods

Update on Physician Compare Sites-One MD Reader Found CMS to be More Accurate

The CMS system is not without errors and as mentioned, this is the first run at it but a physician reader did his comparison and shared his findings. He said in his area at least he didn’t find any “dead” or “retired” doctors on the list, so that...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 10:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, drugs, healthcare, medicare, medical billing, Cancer, Oncology, CMS, Fraud, Orange County, Health Insuance, American Cancer Society, Treatment, Glen Justice, AVVO

China bars O.C. Diabetic Businessman From Returning Home Over Business Deal/Legal Case-Runs Out of Insulin End Up in Hospital

This is an interesting case on US laws and those in China. It has been business as usual for this man from Orange County, CA and due to no fault of his own, the manufacturer didn’t create products up to spec in California. This is just some...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2011 4:22 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Diabetes, China, Orange County, fine, dipsute, products, imports lawsuit, shanghai

Yahoo Search-Dead Doctor Listings and Flaws Alive and Well There too! Is Everybody on the Web Drinking the Flawed Data?

If you are a doctor you might check out and what is listed about yourself on the web as it appears someone out there has the key and dollars to the “master” data base here and is probably making a few million marketing it. It appears that even last...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2011 12:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, medicare, medical billing, Oncology, CMS, Fraud, Orange County, Health Insuance, Healthline, yahoo, Glen Justice, AVVO

CMS Physician Compare Site-Same as Websites For Profit? Same MD Convicted of Medicare Fraud and Dead Chimney Doctor on the List

Well if you read the Medical Quack often enough you know that I have poked around these site a bit as I want to check for accuracy after finding my former doctor who had been dead for 7 years still listed. I think everyone got the word via this...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2010 5:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, medicare, medical billing, Cancer, Oncology, CMS, Fraud, Orange County, Health Insuance, American Cancer Society, Treatment, Glen Justice, AVVO

$120 Million Dollar Pacificare Dividend Payment to Parent Company United Healthcare Blocked by CA Insurance Commissioner-Subsidiary Watch

Back in September California regulators were digging around and were looking to fine United Healthcare subsidiary Pacificare $10 billion in fines, based on data found in audits. We all know that getting a judgment and collecting are 2 different issues...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2010 2:34 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, HMO, Orange County, United HealthCare, Contracts, branding, PacifiCare, algorithms fraud, capitation, St. Josephs Hospitals, rebranding, subsidiaryies

Avvo Physician Rating Service Can’t Get Accurate Information Listed on Doctors - One OC Oncologist Sitting in Jail for Fraud

These folks sent me an email about their new service and the first I’m going to do is look for a couple obvious doctors and it didn’t take more than 1 search and I found a doctor that admitted fraud, made national news and I even blogged about it back...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2010 2:37 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, medicare, medical billing, Cancer, Oncology, Fraud, Orange County, Health Insuance, American Cancer Society, Treatment, Glen Justice, AVVO

St. Joseph Home Health Network In the OC Working With Aegis Health (Just Purchased by PE) Group to Enhance Physician Relationships–Analytics and Algorithms

This about improving financial relationships with the Home Care area and the company specializes in working with hospitals and how to grow their bottom line. Aegis was born from Vanderbilt University and interestingly enough was just sold this week...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2010 9:29 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Physicians, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Orange County, Studies, algoirthms, efficiencies, St Josephs Home Healthcare, Metalmark Capital, Aegis Health Group

Prime Healthcare Under Investigation for High Infection Rates in California in Four Hospitals

Prime Healthcare is back in the news again, this time not over ownership and claim issues, but infection rates this time. Prime Health though is still in the business of buying up hospitals when the opportunities arise and a few months ago they...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2010 9:53 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Investors, Hospitals, California, bankruptcy, Orange County, Prime Healthcare, Money, infections, funds, network

Heritage Provider Network May Join Prime Healthcare in Bidding for Bankrupt Victor Valley Community Hospital

If Heritage does not place a bid, then Prime Healthcare would move in as the new owner as by law the process has to be open for bidding. Prime bid last year unsuccessfully for the 4 hospital chain IHHI in Orange County, CA which returned to the...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2010 10:29 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Investors, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Orange County, Prime Healthcare, Money, funds, Chaudhuri, Hertize Provider Network

California Regulators Seeking up to 10 Billion in Fines Against United HealthCare With Over 1 Million Violations After The Purchase of Pacificare HMO

This is a large number of violations stacked up here by the State, 992,936 with a fine of 10k for each violation. This could stand to be the largest fine in US history against a health insurance company. United Health Group is appealing the...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2010 7:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, HMO, Orange County, United HealthCare, Contracts, branding, PacifiCare, algorithms fraud, capitation, St. Josephs Hospitals, rebranding, subsidiaryies

SimMan The Robot Patient–Used With Premed To Encourage More Students to Enter Healthcare

The robot is portable and can be used with conventions or at group sessions. In the video the group here are given “black” coats as participants and the motivation here is to work their way up to a “white coat”. The robot is controlled by...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2010 10:43 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Training, healthcare, Orange County, Computer, Mission Hospital, robot, premed

Hoag Hospital Irvine Opens–New State of the Art Facility

This is the old Irvine Regional Hospital once owned by Tenet that closed down in January of 2009, basically due to the fact that the new Kaiser Permanente facility opened one exit down the freeway and that’s where the patients went. When the Irvine...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2010 9:20 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Hospital, Surgery, healthcare, Kaiser, Orange County, Hoag Hospital, Irvine, emergency department

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