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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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The Medical Quack
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Mon, Jun 8 2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Business Intelligence, AMA, Data Mining, Fines, Algorithms, formulas, United HealthCare, Inginex, overcharges, Ingenix, Senate Hearings, Andrew Cuomo, Medpoint, Intelliscript
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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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The Medical Quack
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Thu, Apr 2 2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Business Intelligence, AMA, Data Mining, Fines, Algorithms, formulas, United HealthCare, Inginex, overcharges, Ingenix, Senate Hearings, Andrew Cuomo, Medpoint, Intelliscript
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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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The Medical Quack
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Sun, Mar 29 2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Business Intelligence, Blue Cross, AMA, Data Mining, Fines, MIB, Algorithms, formulas, Wellpoint, United HealthCare, Inginex, overcharges, Ingenix, Senate Hearings, Andrew Cuomo, Medpoint, Intelliscript