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Does the average person care about how many seats one party or the other has, I don’t really think so as that does not impact their day to day life very much but does the average American think about healthcare reform, you bet. If you think it makes a difference on whether or not you “like” a Congress...
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Congress, Washington DC, Politics, Entertainment, Democrats, collaboration, healthcare reform, Non participants, GOP, Ignorance, filibuster
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Jackson Health System is in financial hurt as governing board of the Jackson Health System that acts on behalf of the Miami-Dade County Commission is in a stew for finding new and faster emergency revenue to keep the hospitals open. After the hurricane in Haiti, the system provided a ton...
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03-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Hospitals, Budgets, Medical Services, Patients, Desperate Hospitals, healthcare reform, Jackson Health System, Haiti, emergency funds
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Outsourcing is what is happening here with many of the employees having a new boss, and reason is to save money. Over 50% of the US hospitals are now operating in the “red” and by shifting the cost over to a contract, benefits, health insurance, etc. are now going to a new source for the employee...
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03-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Budgets, Economy, Layoffs, Benefits, Desperate Hospitals, Cobra, healthcare reform, labor, catch 22, Jewish Hospital & St Mary's Healthcare, Jewish Hospital
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With the talk of reform and policy cost improving, there’s still a lot of money in the till for acquisitions it appears. You can check out the website and again this i s one more program focused at employers. They have a gym in Seattle that goes along with the program. They also have...
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The focus here is for more money spent on preventive care, but when the big ones come, such as a knee or hip, or even cardiac care, it will be more out of pocket for the employees here. It is lowering the cost on the preventive side, where we can usually afford, but passing along the bigger expense...
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03-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Blue Cross, preventive medicine, Doctors, Algorithms, Blue Shield, formulas, ER, healthcare reform
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I just received this in my email today and for the last month or so, I am getting weekly door hanger advertisements as well, similar to the image below. With all the recent price increases coming out and talks in Washington, it appears they are on the move to find all the consumers with any ability...
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This is how one country is doing it, with the Government jumping in for relief. Granted Australia is not quite as bad in the economic hurt area as the US is right now so they have some additional positives going in their direction. What is being emphasized here too is standards and better...
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03-05-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Health IT, Hospitals, elections, integration, Australia, Standards, healthcare reform, Prime Minister, taxes
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This is not lining up against Obama Care in my eyes, it’s rather saying that it is almost non Constitutional to force citizens to purchase insurance from companies that are actively traded on the stock market and have a responsibility to shareholders first , rather than the insured. I have made...
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03-05-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Mayo, Kaiser Permanente, Obama, Cleveland Clinic, Wall Street, Non Profit, Algorithms, healthcare reform, Virgina, stockholders
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The first matter supported by the group in healthcare reform is a permanent fix for the Medicare physician reimbursement issue and replacing with one based on the Medical economic Index. They also want neurologists to be be recognized at the principal providers for patients with very complex neurologic...
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This tells the story pretty well and there’s stories just like it all over the US. Fixed costs have gone up over the years an .png?imgmax=800" width="167" height="172" alt="" /> d basically family practice doctors have not had any increase since 2001. In my travels, I have run into physicians who...
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03-04-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, medicare, health insurance, medical billing, Congress, Politics, Coding, Doctors, Patients, Algorithms, healthcare reform, costs
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This week we have a 30 day extension on the Medicare/Tri-Care cuts and this meeting occurs about one week before the next deadline hits again. The pay cut situation has gone on for way too many years without a permanent solution. The testimonies are requesting detailed information so get those...
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It looks like the doctor, Gary Michelson was right, 10 million was nowhere near enough and well, just look at where we are today with Congress. Do you think anyone in Congress wants to be a millionaire, no wait a minute, most of them already are. We do know that Wellpoint is passing along...
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03-03-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Dogs, Grants, Charity, R and D, X-prize, Wellpoint, sterilization, cats, healthcare for pets, Gary Michelson
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All I have now is a press release so what they amount is, I can’t say, but lets’ hope it will make it worthwhile. The website is interesting full of available services and information in including TelMed, liability insurance to address risks associated with telemedicine. Of course there has...
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This is the latest request from MedPac and with trying to equal out what is being paid out. Reports like this normally send panic to those who are participants in the Advantage plans. From one side of the coin there are many pharmacy benefit managers and insurance HMO type of companies making...
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The pilot will start out with a small trial and will graduate to a larger trial based on chronic disease control medications, diabetes, cholesterol, and high blood pressure. Some of the comments in the article stated the messages were annoying but some didn’t mind. The results will be interesting...
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03-02-2010
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Filed under: Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, Fines, personal health record, Express Scripts, overcharges, Vitality