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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

Colonoscopy Without the Scope – Study States CT Scan is Effective

The debate over Medicare paying for this procedures has been up in the air for years, but now I believe the cost as well as convenience issue is starting to come together. CT Scanners have had this service available for years and it certainly is much...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 11:16 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, medicare, Colonoscopy, Virtual Colonoscopy, Cancer, CT Scan, Advanced Body Scan

Medicare rules ban cold-calling by insurers and will use “secret shoppers”

There is a potential fine for violators and they cannot initiate the call, the consumer has to initiate, but once that is done then it is pretty much up to the consumer once more to make that bone crushing decision, as it’s not getting any easier or simpler...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 10:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, medicare, health insurance, CMS, part D, Sales and Marketing, Secret shoppers

Hospice Group Sues Bush Administration to Stop Cut in Medicare Payment

Hospice is not an issue anyone really wants to take a full look at, that is unless you or a family member are impacted. Budget cuts are already making things difficult in this area, so sad we have to resort to continued legal actions to allow the...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2008 1:33 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, medicare, Medicaid, CMS, Law Suit, Hospice, Bush Administration

Cerner CEO calls for a change with insurers

Cerner president speaks out about the insurance business, "they need to be redefined". Amgen CEO and President Kevin Sharer called for a better structured FDA . Overall the summary statement says the same thing I have brought...

Published Sun, Aug 08 2008 11:48 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, medicare, health insurance, FDA, Cerner, Amgen, Fixiing Healthcare

Medicare overpays for new generics - Find Drug Information on this site

This bring up a very good point with all the recent budget cuts, why does it take Medicare so long to realize the savings? Camptosar is not on the $4.00 generic listings, as all generics do not make the list, but worth checking. One resource...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 11:52 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, medicare, Drug Information, Epocrates, Generic

More states shred bills for awful medical errors

Many states have already addressed the issue of not billing patients for medical errors, namely the "8 nevers" that come in to play starting in October from Medicare. Several insurers have also adopted the same policies. Many states...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 10:31 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, medicare, Hospitals, Medical Errors

PHR Vendors and Testers wanted for a Pilot program in Arizona and Utah - Medicare Contractor

Through the program, all Medicare billing information will be populated in to a Personal Health Record. Where does this leave Google Health and the HealthVault? Can they participate? The key to the whole program is to pre-populate...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 1:35 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, PHR, Google Health, HealthVault, Medicare contractor

How To Fool The Feds Into Paying For Your State's Socialized Healthcare System

Dr. Doug Farrago with his input on what's happening in Massachusetts with their healthcare system. Long and short of all of this, is who's going to pay the bill? I feature Dr. Farrago under my "Need a Laugh" section as he...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 1:14 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, Medicaid, Placebo Journal, Dr. Farrago, Massachusetts

Medicare Plan Changing - PFFS - Private Fee For Service

PFFS plans now cost the government more per patient than traditional Medicare. Be informed and watch for the rate increases to perhaps roll in. There is a a little time left before this is law, but as the article states, insurers could...

Published Sun, Aug 08 2008 1:01 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, Private Fee for Service

Why Do Doctors Make Mistakes that Injure Or Kill Their Patient's?

The insurance executives have taken the medical decisions and good medical care out control of clinicians, pretty simple. Have you had a surgical procedure lately? I had one surgeon recently tell me of procedures lined up by the hour, seven...

Published Sun, Aug 08 2008 12:16 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Hospital, medicare, Physicians, HMO, Medical Errors, Surgeons

FBI raids three Southern California hospitals in probe of Medicare fraud

Desperate hospitals taking desperate measures, with none of this being legal and lead a couple arrests with more to come. Empty beds cost hospitals money, so was this an attempt to fill the beds or fill some pockets. Over 50% of the...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 6:03 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid, Los Angeles, Fraud, Homeless

Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections - Interview

Recently with all the discussion on catheters and hospital acquired infections, I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Thomas Cherry from Cook Medical to find out a little bit more on the topic. As mentioned in the interview, CMS is...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 12:39 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, medicare, Cook Medical, Medicaid, CMS, HAI, Catheters, hospital acquired infection, imprenated catheters, CRBSI

Medicare Expands List of 'No-Pay' Hospital Conditions

These 3 new items could sure leave some questions on the table and issues could be cloudy. These 3 should be evaluated on an individual patient basis and not an overall listing, after all one patient could be allergic to most medications used for...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 7:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, medicare

A sensible censor for sharing medical records – Anonymize medical records for research…

This could be great news as how many times do medical records need to be anonymized for research, a lot. We all remember the case with the NHS and their mistake made a few months back with the records. This will be nice too if it is...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 4:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, techonology, Medical Records, medicare, FDA, HIPAA, MIT, Anonymize

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