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Slow Medicare reimbursements are hurting doctors in California, Nevada and Hawaii

One more reason it may be hard to find a primary care physician that will take Medicare, part of the issues lie with the new Medicare contractor for the area as well, big transition when getting data bases connected and data aligned. I have myself...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 1:42 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, medicare, Physicians, Budgets, California, Family Practice

Trend of Medicaid pay increases is expected to end as states struggle

This is a big problem in California, it is very difficult already to find physicians who will take Medicaid, thus the pay decrease will limit access even more and possibly the same with hospitals. With finally having a budget, healthcare facilities...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 12:15 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Medicaid, Budgets, California

Desperate Hospitals: Chicago Hospital Hangs For Sale Sign

We just had the same happen not too long ago here the Los Angeles area, Century City, right on the outskirts of Beverly Hills that could not come up with buyer and had to close down at the end of August. Hospitals even the affluent areas are not...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 4:33 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, Budgets, Insolvency, Desperate Hospitals, Finances

Congress Cut DARPA Budget by $130 Million – Why?

This does not make sense, why don’t we find other ways to spend the funds, like perhaps some additional limbs for soldiers that come home from war, bionic arms and hands which DARPA has funded and helped create? What’s up with this? DARPA...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2008 9:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, DARPA, Biotech, Congress, Budgets

National Institute of Health Director Elias Zerhouni to Step Down

He also did recognize the effect of current budget cuts are having on the progression of R and D, as anyone who applies for and receives grants these days knows the bar has been raised and it is a bit more difficult to secure them, as a result many are...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 10:08 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Genomics, healthcare, Biotech, Grants, Budgets, R and D, NIH, National Institue of Health

Bankruptcy Bug Hits Hospitals – Desperate Hospitals

Modern Healthcare.com has also published an article about the status of affairs of many hospitals. To read further, click here to review the series I began last month called “ Desperate Hospitals” in where there are several updates and additional...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 5:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Charity, Budgets, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Economics, Chapter 11, Desperate Hospitals

Health Insurance bills head to Governor - California

The one item in particular requiring health insurers to devote 85 percent to medical care is something perhaps we all wonder about, where does the money go? We don't know as consumers, and when faced with a claim, were there funds directed...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 11:02 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Budgets, California, California Legislature

Financial Report Projections reflect downgrades of not for profit hospitals - more Desperate Hospitals on the horizon?

Increased charity is one of the reasons and of course there is the pressure from Medicare and insurers to limit rate increases, but many insurers are on their way to China as posted in prior articles here. There is also the big loss of federal funds...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 5:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Budget Cuts, Hospitals, Budgets, Desperate Hosptials

Hospital - Revenue is up, profits are down

Words of reality quoted by this hospital CEO, "There are too many variables involved until we go line item by line item", and that is certainly one big challenge as well. Many hospitals have active fund drives in place as well as other...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 11:15 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, CEO, Hospitals, Budgets

Behind Rising Health-Care Costs

This is an interesting analysis from BusinessWeek, and covers some areas perhaps not discussed enough, software and hardware. When you develop one side, the other side needs to improve as well. As mentioned, robotic surgery is the rage with...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 12:37 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, Surgery, healthcare, Budgets

How Do You Outsource Health Care – You Don’t

Every industry has what is called a “business model’ and different industries can all learn from each other on marketing techniques, practices, etc. to create a proof of concept, but the one industry that is different is healthcare. I guess if you wanted...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2008 1:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Outsource, Budgets

Medi-Cal providers bracing for pay cut - California

There’s a lot of focus this week on the Medicare reductions, but in California there’s also the Medi-Cal cuts. Already it is very difficult to find physicians who will still take Medi-Cal today, that battle through attrition has already be done...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2008 12:06 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, Budgets, Medi-Cal

FDA Budget Swells as Administration Bows to Congress

The basis of the current affairs of the FDA are not unlike many other stories being told today. We live in a world of transparency, and we are all still getting used to it for that matter, but things don’t fit under the carpet anymore. The...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2008 12:09 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, FDA, Congress, Budgets

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