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In the news this week Cleveland Clinic was reported laying off around 200 employees to restructure with current economic conditions, so this might add a little more reason to look for and solicit additional business. Earlier this year the Cleveland Clinic signed a contract with Lowes for cardiac...
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Thu, Nov 11 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Cardiology, Heart Disease, Medical Tourism, Heart Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, United HealthCare, Heatlh Insurance, Lowes
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It just so happens the next World Medical Tourism Conference is up and coming and it’s kind of interesting too as there’s another convention of insurance companies that takes place at the same hotel at the same time as the Tourism Conference. I noticed that last year when I attended for a day. ...
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Tue, Aug 31 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Surgery, healthcare, health insurance, Medical Tourism, Los Angeles, Cigna, speakers, World Healthcare, Global Health, Vanbreda International
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Last year I attended and did a short interview with Microsoft and the CEO of Bumrungrad hospital and then spent the rest of the day learning and talking to many of the attendees and I learned a lot. You can read what I gathered up last year at the link below. I do have to say this was an entire...
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Mon, Aug 30 2010
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Back in April things were already stirring relative to to charges from hospitals and in Germany they can also opt for additional private health insurance as well as contributing to the government system. With the new increases the poor will be protected and their payments will be subsidized by...
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Tue, Jul 6 2010
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Filed under: Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, health insurance, EHR, medical billing, PHR, HealthVault, Medical Tourism, Heatlhcare, Politics, Patients, Cost, Germany, insurance agent, Dr Horst Kunhardt
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Many people travel to other countries to have surgical procedures and do just fine; however this story is about a woman who could not afford to have the surgery done here and searched the internet. She now has to have a procedure done here in the US to correct the botched surgery she had in Mexico...
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Sun, Jul 4 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Surgery, healthcare, health insurance, Medical Tourism, bariatric surgery, weight loss, Patients, Mexico, lap band, Tijuana
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This is straight out of the Wall Street Journal and we all know China is fast catching up to the US in many areas and that includes healthcare, drugs and medical devices. So convinced is one insurance company, United Healthcare, recently purchased a China Gateway company that has a line of communication...
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Mon, Jun 28 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Investors, Medical Devices, Medical Tourism, China, Stocks, Mergers and Acquisitions
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This is another area of healthcare that keeps coming up in conversation as well as US citizens and those from other countries exploring alternatives. Here in the US, cost is the driving factor. There are even methodologies being developed for easy access to information via a software application...
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Sun, May 30 2010
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Medical tourism keeps adding more innovations as the concept moves along. Now through this company in California you can have your surgery done outside the US by a US doctor. Not too long ago I posted about surgeons who travel from facility to facility and it appears if signed up here they...
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Fri, Apr 30 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Surgery, healthcare, Hospitals, Budgets, Medical Tourism, Heatlhcare, Patients, nurses, locum tenens, temporary doctor, healthcare reform
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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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Thu, Apr 22 2010
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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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Mon, Apr 19 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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This sounds quite similar to what we have going on here in the US with costs and claims being scrutinized. In reading here too it says they have a “complicated payment system”. What is interesting though on their practice in reading here is that if the insurer opens up a claim and it is not...
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Here’s one more application for the iPhone if you are traveling and want to located medical services outside the US to be available this year. With rising healthcare costs in the US, many other countries are extremely interested in touch economic times in making an inroad to capture some of our...
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Fri, Feb 26 2010
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Mexico is also becoming a popular alternative for Medica Tourism, and they have the closest locations for those of us living in the southern half of the country. Also, notice the mention of insurance companies who cover treatments there. In reading this article though, it states that they...
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Tue, Feb 2 2010
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Everyone seems to think of medical tourism as jumping on a plane and going to a foreign country, not necessarily so, we have competition within the US with hospital marketing and pricing too. With the current state of affairs with approximately 55% of the hospitals operating in the red in the...
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Tue, Nov 24 2009
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Granted this is not mainstay yet, but as I have mentioned before, you may not be able to count on the current business models to stay the way they are with insurance , as everything today out there seems to be subject to change, like daily. So far it has only been a small number of patients who...