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Many physicians have sold their practices to Children’s Hospital and are a little unsure about how things will run with Johns Hopkins as the new owner. The name affiliation I am thinking would stand to draw more patients with the reputation that Johns Hopkins has. Some physicians mentioned...
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IHHI should almost have their own book or soap opera as they have been through some very unusual ups and downs and the chain must have 9 lives. Apparently things are coming back under order since the former owner is now back in charge, and his funding comes from a hedge fund. We are seeing...
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07-13-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, healthcare, Investors, Hospitals, Orange County, Money, IHHI, SEC, funds, Medical Capital Holdings, Mogel, MedCap, Chaudhuri, hedge fund, UnitedHealthGroup
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This is an interesting case and ruffled feathers along with the facts from what I read here seem to be mixed in. The hospital fired the doctor who works for a physician’s group; however, doctors in California are covered under the whistle blower statutes. He wants to be able to come back...
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07-08-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, CEO, Lawsuit, Claims, doctor, Whistle Blower, Patients, peer to peer, management, Modesto, corporate medicine
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In case you have not heard of this company, they provide physicians for hospitals, in other words doctors that work on staff but are not direct employees of the hospital, contracted instead. In 2008 the company was awarded the Physician Entrepreneur of the year award. This is a public company...
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07-07-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, Physician, healthcare, medicare, CMS, Mergers and Acquisitions, Partners, The Hospitalist Company, practice group
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This is probably not the first time you have heard this but these conversations are going on all the time at hospitals and other health care facilities due to economic times. Hospitalists are graded on their return admissions and each case is scrutinized by what actions they took and in many cases...
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06-29-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Hospital, healthcare, health insurance, Pay for Performance, Budgets, Doctors, Hospitalists, Patients, Contracts, goals, City of Hope, peers
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Emergency room physicians rank among the top numbers as far as specialists that are sued today, and they are also some of the strongest advocates to have access to medical records too. When you stop and think about it, they do not have a chart most of the time like your primary care doctor has...
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06-22-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, Doctors, Algorithms, ER, malpractice, healthcare reform, legal cases, costs, utilization, medical records DOD, emergeny room, ER physicians
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Additional more joys of hospital use of data and while this is not bad as they are looking for donations, there’s just something that is a bit irritating, especially if you are a patient who’s in the process of battling your insurance company over what they covered on your hospital visit. If I...
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05-24-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, data bases, HIPAA, Heatlhcare, Money, Philanthropy, solicitors, fundraisers
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Back in October of 2008 I made a post about the 2 new hot words in healthcare and it just keeps coming around as these 2 items seem to generate money over and over all throughout healthcare. The 2 New Hot Words in Healthcare: Algorithms and Whistleblowers This is an interesting case as you can read below...
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05-24-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Hospital, healthcare, Lawsuit, Cardiology, Fraud, incentives, Whistleblowers, penalties, healthcare reform certification, Christ Hospital
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In the case of an emergency, you may not have time to consult and see what hospital is in network, depending on what the emergency is. This has been a huge on going battle for years, and especially felt big time in California, lawsuits over this issue too, and a study showed that one of of every...
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05-21-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, health insurance, bankruptcy, Prime Healthcare, Emergency Room, Lawsuits, ER, healthcare reform, out of network
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Those rate increases were too high for him to maybe? Of all places, but we don’t have any control over what happens when our bodies talk sometimes. At any rate it states he’s expected to be fine. BD INDIANAPOLIS - The brother of former President George H.W. Bush collapsed during health...
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This is something that we hope gets a second look here before the time runs out as the small and rural hospitals more than likely will not be able to afford the cost of having to credential twice. The approval processes of the Joint Commission have become a popular discussion area on the web. ...
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05-06-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, Telemedicine, Congress, Hospitals, inspections, CMS, Heatlhcare, Hospital Safety, Joint Commission, Accredited, Hospital Grades, Investigation, previlege by proxy
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Back in December insurers were looking at the procedure which is less invasive for the patient and allows for less time in the hospital and a faster recovery and it appears now that NuVasive has made some read headway here. Big Insurers Consider NuVasive Spine Surgery Procedure Experimental But...
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04-27-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Hospital, healthcare, health insurance, Medical Devices, FDA, Back Surgery, Spinal Surgery, XLIF, NoVasive, investigational surgery
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In viewing the video, Mr. Davies appears to have an English accent so it seems he was from the British Isles originally so for him to travel back to where things are familiar are not as stressful as going to a country where you don’t know anyone. He did save huge dollars and was able to “afford...
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This is an item certainly worth paying attention too as Mexico is vying to attract some of the revenue for American healthcare in Mexico and just like real estate, it’s about location to the US. HealthNet has one program already in place, even though limited but it’s a start. I used some...
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04-22-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, Surgery, healthcare, health insurance, Medical Tourism, Politics, healthcare reform, Mexico, dental work
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Hospitals pay to be accredited and the Joint Commission was initially established to ensure safety and good clinical habits and adherence in the US, however, this over the last few years has changed to where they now accredit hospitals outside the US. This accreditation also opens the doors to...
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04-19-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, Surgery, healthcare, health insurance, Medical Tourism, Politics, healthcare reform, Mexico, dental work