It does make one wonder how large can it grow. United Health Group is certainly growing by leaps and bounds with technology and it’s getting difficult to keep up with all the subsidiaries they have these days to include a bank, several wellness companies, other data base companies and we still...
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Are you tired of analytical software yet? Here’s one more software tool aimed at the employer to help manage their employee benefits as relates to health insurance and what the employees are opting for or what services they could using that are cheaper, like encouraging employees to use generic...
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This is not to say that systems need to conform and have certain interoperability formats to provide physicians with a tool where they are not “taken” on their investment, but it’s been spoken many times that the insurers are the ones that benefit more than the doctors. What we seem to be missing...
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Not too long ago one of my contact, a cardiologist wrote to his Congress person about the cuts for cardiology and received no a response after having met in person at a dinner, so we have distracted and disruptive people making laws too. Anyway, back to the point here below is a couple paragraphs...
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This is a rather long but very informative “diary” written with both opinion and fact as to why our current health insurance plan is not working. Some of the facts mentioned that I found interesting was the budget of AARP for example which is 1 billion a year and 700 million of that is derived...
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Mon, Jun 8 2009
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It appears the investigation is going to phase 2, with a request to 20 other insurers to find out how they are using the data base. Recently the AMA filed a class action suit as well to investigate and find out as well. These are business intelligence data bases used to crank out the numbers...
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Thu, Apr 2 2009
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With the Ingenix story in the news the last few weeks, there are a couple of other data sources out there that are used to mine your medication and health records data. Part of the reason that is is all coming to light is due to the fact the data is now trying to be used in a constructive basis, for...
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