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SenSlip, the artificial retractable foreskin, yes this is a real product with patents. At least if one has had some perhaps not so good issues, there’s a product to help out, a sock or undergarment as it is called. If you are allergic to latex, you are out of luck. BD Being circumcised...
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I think we saw this same story in Sicko, almost the exact same story so must be more of this going around with irregular periods now being a basis for denying insurance coverage. Another woman was turned down due to "history of infertility" as she had taken a fertility drug. How...
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One more analysis program to drive employees and employers nuts in the search for recommendations for improving health and reducing risk , I would prefer my doctor giving me the sites and information to read as he is the qualified person who has my chart and knows my health, again putting the point of...
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I guess the local departments of motor vehicles aren’t doing the job in determining whether or not we are fit to drive, so here comes something new, software to determine how safe you are as a driver? Of course it will all be related to money and the hope is to eventually offer a discount for those...
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The catch is you need to have a 45 day or longer wait, or be put on the list that is anticipated to take that long. Premiums will be around $75 to about $225 a month. The coverage would allow for treatment in Private BC clinics or in the US. Canadians are getting their first exposure...
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The comment below from a vendor is interesting, as he comments on the fact that a physician can make an extra $125,000 in 5 years, well some family care practice doctors today in California would like to just be making that in one year, as all the recent contracts with insurance companies are getting...
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Charity, CMS, Linux, Donations, bankruptcies
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Without coverage how do you test for it? Good move and I can’t understand why a test would be denied in the first place if someone asked for it. BD AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the operator of the largest non-government HIV testing program in California, today applauded Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...
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This story about Walgreens illustrates a little bit of both. After the economy and Wall Street news of the last couple of weeks, we should know now about how programmers set algorithms to select, process and deliver data. Need a refresher, you can check here relative to Wall Street out coding...
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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? I am not speaking of wrong side surgeries, but...
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94 percent of for-profit nursing homes were cited compared to 88% of non profit. 163 nursing facilites will receive an extra effort in the monitoring end of things, this is scary. For profit numbers somewhat indicate there’s more interest in a dollar than healthcare, but all together, look at these...
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Is this any indication on how the big healthcare institutions think of Congress, much less Medicare? We have lived through the Medicare nightmares for the last number of years and all we hear is cut, cut and cut again, as there’s such an over lack of knowledge in healthcare that really is not understood...
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This is just the start here and it seems to appear the marketing of genomic testing and labs is beginning to resemble the CT scanner rage of a few years ago, except this process is a bit more complicated and still needs more education from the medical side of the business before successful marketing...
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If the governor is having a hard time, what about us? Read the article and you may be more confused on what can be covered and what is not. It keeps getting more confusing all the time with little or no relief in site. Who can keep track of the provisions from the insurance companies...
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“ There's nothing in the rules that says you can't get divorced for Medicaid”…first it was getting married for insurance benefits and now it’s getting divorced for Medicaid. Healthcare is starting to erode a lot of ethics here , and all due to money. If this doesn’t point out that...
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The man had insurance coverage and had 21 liens from hospitals, doctors, etc. – was the HMO slow in paying? BD I now have an amputated left leg and a 'frozen' left shoulder. I was released from the rehabilitation hospital in July of last year. But during the preceding May and June...