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This is a good comprehensive report, including comments from members of Congress, both sides. The comments are interesting when talking about health insurance, where most are happy with their policy. Watch the video when you have some time to spend. Also worth watching the the documentary...
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09-25-2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, medicare, health insurance, Education, Congress, Hospitals, bankruptcy, PBS, heatlhcare reform, High Frequency Healthcare, Obama heatlhcare, government option for insurance
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This hospital is located in southern California and over the last year there has been a bit of discussion on the internet about their financial status. The hospital was in the news when the Martin Luther King hospital was closed as this hospital was one of the closest that would be impacted with...
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How much can we afford to pay for chronic care illness, and what are patients missing when the care and expenses are out of reach. As insurance coverage has changed with more on catastrophic coverage plans, the money is coming out of the patient’s pocket. It is also having an affect on the development...
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06-22-2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Patients, Cost, Treatment plans, chronic health conditions, health reform, co-payments
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Some of the hospital in the now bankrupt corporation have been sold to other concerns. Back a number of years ago Envision was slated as being a new coming in the hospital chain market, but as you read on you can see those plans did not materialize. There are many discussion as to what happened...
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Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston made the “Desperate Hospitals” update I do every month in March, with a note about what they were doing to get staff and employees involved. (Desperate Hospitals was also featured in the Chicago Sun Times ). “Note: hats off to Mr. Levy’s approach with involving everyone...
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04-02-2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, health insurance, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Economy, Chapter 11, Chapter 7, Layoffs, Desperate Hospitals, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Paul Levy, stimulus
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We certainly hope our physicians make the right decision, and there is a lot to say for “quality of life” by all means, but this article discusses how hospitals and doctors are rated, and obviously the ones who take great care with working with some of the most difficult situations, in other words perhaps...
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04-02-2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Hospitals, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Economy, Desperate Hospitals, Risk Management, Hospital ratings
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This is a monthly update I started back in October 2008, when Century City Hospital, on the outskirts of Beverly Hills, located in the heart of corporate USA in the Los Angeles area could not get funding or find a buyer and had to close. This sent a message off to me that something was cooking...
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03-19-2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, health insurance, Hospitals, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Economy, Chapter 11, Chapter 7, Layoffs, Desperate Hospitals, stimulus
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Here is this months listings of hospitals either laying off, closing selling, bankruptcy, or cutting back in order to survive. This is from news around the web this month. If I missed any, please feel free to let me know. The related reading has additional posts from the...
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02-17-2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, health insurance, Hospitals, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Economy, Chapter 11, Layoffs, Desperate Hospitals
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It appears many had to wait weeks to get paid, according to the article the situation has been addressed, but hospitals were running out of supplies and were going to local veterinary offices to get them. The hospital system reportedly owes approximately $23 million to about 6,500 creditors, sounds...
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01-29-2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Australia, Debt consolidation, Vendors, Transparency, Hosptials
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Well it appears Prime Healthcare is not alone in California with balance billing. This is truly the no-win situation in healthcare where patients, hospitals and doctors are pit against one another over insurance payments or non payments on balances owed. It is hard today to figure out...
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Currently all services are outpatient, no in this case nobody will need to be moved, this hospital would definitely be in the “desperate hospital” listing. The reason for the closure, no money. Since 2004, the hospital has filed for bankruptcy twice. BD A historic Atlanta hospital,...
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It’s time for another unfortunate update to the Desperate Hospital series since last updated in November, and the related reading below has the links to the entire listings. First and foremost, the story at the top of the list is probably one of the worst hit hospitals with the employees not getting...
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01-10-2009
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Well sure everyone is hurting, but don’t forget the big reserves (money that is not for operating, etc. just sits there for just in case circumstances) these folks all have too, maybe a trillion or better if you added them all up? Also, it has not stopped Blue Cross from having a bunch of money...
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12-22-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, Hospitals, Blue Cross, bankruptcy, Desperate Hospitals, Blue Shield, Venture Capital, Reserve Funds, Profits, Bank
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Both links offer some good insight as to what goes on behind the scenes. As patients, we just want to be taken care of, but behind what we may see are some long political battles, ones the hospitals I’m sure would rather do without. So why are they battling for patients, it comes right back to...
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12-10-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Physicians, Tenet, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Balance Billing, Transparancy, Debt consolidation, Vendors, Hosptials, HCA
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This is an update of some of the hospitals in the news either filing for bankruptcy, trying to recover from bankruptcy, working to maintain and stay open, and other drastic cut backs by those trying to avoid getting to the bottom with their algorithms for planning and projections, which we hope works...
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11-22-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Hospitals, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Economy, Chapter 11, Prime Healthcare, Desperate Hospitals