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Dr. Bruce Hopper from HelloHealth Speaks Out on Restoring Professionalism to Private Practice and the Danger Of Healthcare “Algorithms For Profit Only” Eroding the Patient-Doctor Relationship
In Texas the Lawmakers Follow Doctors’ Orders to Improve Patient Care
UnitedHealth Ingenix's acquiring AIM Healthcare Services in Tennessee
Insurance CEOs Get Rich While Denying Health Coverage to Children – As Noted in the Senate Hearings
Sutter Hospitals and Ingenix working together on Business Intelligence Software

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Dr. Bruce Hopper from HelloHealth Speaks Out on Restoring Professionalism to Private Practice and the Danger Of Healthcare “Algorithms For Profit Only” Eroding the Patient-Doctor Relationship

First of all I feel flattered that a post made here at the Quack caught attention here as I write about technology and morality in healthcare all the time here. I have written a number of algorithms myself and I do see the value with Health IT with...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2010 5:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Senate, Balance Billing, Algorithms, formulas, healthcare reform, Texas, Fraud Against Practitioners, legislation, Penal Code, database mining, Rockefeller, HelloHealth, Dr. Bruce Hopper
In Texas the Lawmakers Follow Doctors’ Orders to Improve Patient Care

A little news on what’s happening in Texas and last I looked they have not left the union yet (grin). I cover quite a bit here too about what is happening in Texas as they have set the pace in many areas of healthcare. In the related reading...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2009 9:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, Balance Billing, Algorithms, formulas, Texas Medical Association, healthcare reform, Texas, Fraud Against Practitioners, legislation, Penal Code, database mining
UnitedHealth Ingenix's acquiring AIM Healthcare Services in Tennessee

Health insurers hire AIM Healthcare to collect overpaid medical claims to providers, who in turn also hire AIM to get back any dollars they may have overpaid to insurers. This seems to be a match made in heaven, depending on what type of data...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2009 11:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Senate, Balance Billing, Algorithms, formulas, healthcare reform, Texas, Fraud Against Practitioners, legislation, Penal Code, database mining, Rockefeller
Insurance CEOs Get Rich While Denying Health Coverage to Children – As Noted in the Senate Hearings

Senator Rockefeller asked a question a couple weeks ago, asked the CEO of UnitedHealthCare how he was able to sleep at night? The family mentioned in this post can’t afford or get health insurance, so here’s the case for a government plan right...

Published Mon, May 05 2009 3:16 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Senate, Balance Billing, Algorithms, formulas, healthcare reform, Texas, Fraud Against Practitioners, legislation, Penal Code, database mining, Rockefeller
Sutter Hospitals and Ingenix working together on Business Intelligence Software

It appears this is another solution for physicians to look at cost as it is business intelligence. Although the AMA had this to say on the topic: “Cohen also warns against paying for data from a source that isn't entirely transparent. Like many...

Published Mon, May 05 2009 11:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, Balance Billing, Algorithms, formulas, United HealthCare, Ingenix, Texas, Fraud Against Practitioners, legislation, Penal Code, database mining, Rockefeller, Sutter
Is This a Case for a New Law – Illegal Algorithms? How Do You Sleep at Night Rockefeller asked the CEO of United Health Care

The Ingenix Inquisition continues with efforts to find out if federal employees were also potential victims. We have laws for almost everything else you can think of out there, and algorithms determine about 95% of all business decisions today. ...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 1:05 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Balance Billing, Algorithms, formulas, United HealthCare, Ingenix, Texas, Fraud Against Practitioners, legislation, Penal Code, database mining, Rockefeller
Texas Joining the Ingenix Inquisition with Introducing Bill for New Penal Codes – Fraud Against Practitioners

This is right from the web page of Rep. Allen Vaught in Texas. He is introducing a bill and is asking for thoughts and information. If you are a physician in Texas and have any input you want to add, there’s an email listed to contact him...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2009 8:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Balance Billing, Algorithms, formulas, Ingenix, Texas, Fraud Against Practitioners, legislation, Penal Code, database mining

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