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Cerner president speaks out about the insurance business, "they need to be redefined". Amgen CEO and President Kevin Sharer called for a better structured FDA . Overall the summary statement says the same thing I have brought up time and time again, who's going to to...
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This bring up a very good point with all the recent budget cuts, why does it take Medicare so long to realize the savings? Camptosar is not on the $4.00 generic listings, as all generics do not make the list, but worth checking. One resource I used to find out more about the drug was the...
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Many states have already addressed the issue of not billing patients for medical errors, namely the "8 nevers" that come in to play starting in October from Medicare. Several insurers have also adopted the same policies. Many states are still pondering and working on policies. ...
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Through the program, all Medicare billing information will be populated in to a Personal Health Record. Where does this leave Google Health and the HealthVault? Can they participate? The key to the whole program is to pre-populate the information so the consumer has very little...
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Dr. Doug Farrago with his input on what's happening in Massachusetts with their healthcare system. Long and short of all of this, is who's going to pay the bill? I feature Dr. Farrago under my "Need a Laugh" section as he produces new videos, I like his humor and unique...
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PFFS plans now cost the government more per patient than traditional Medicare. Be informed and watch for the rate increases to perhaps roll in. There is a a little time left before this is law, but as the article states, insurers could possibly start ahead of time with creating networks...
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The insurance executives have taken the medical decisions and good medical care out control of clinicians, pretty simple. Have you had a surgical procedure lately? I had one surgeon recently tell me of procedures lined up by the hour, seven knees in seven hours, now does that make sense? ...
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Desperate hospitals taking desperate measures, with none of this being legal and lead a couple arrests with more to come. Empty beds cost hospitals money, so was this an attempt to fill the beds or fill some pockets. Over 50% of the hospitals in the US border on insolvency. ...
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Recently with all the discussion on catheters and hospital acquired infections, I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Thomas Cherry from Cook Medical to find out a little bit more on the topic. As mentioned in the interview, CMS is imposing some new rules starting in October that pretty...
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, medicare, Cook Medical, Medicaid, CMS, HAI, Catheters, hospital acquired infection, imprenated catheters, CRBSI
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These 3 new items could sure leave some questions on the table and issues could be cloudy. These 3 should be evaluated on an individual patient basis and not an overall listing, after all one patient could be allergic to most medications used for blood clots as a simple example. BD ...
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This could be great news as how many times do medical records need to be anonymized for research, a lot. We all remember the case with the NHS and their mistake made a few months back with the records. This will be nice too if it is open source and I hope they send the software over...
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6 months is not that long , so I would think any physician who is not presently e-Prescribing might want to seriously take a look and think hard about it. A little practice and learning curve ahead of time can’t hurt . Many offices already have electronic records that integrate this service...
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Oh you have love this, how can a person today not read!! My 83 year old mother depends on the Internet and searches out her Medicare information all on her own, she and I do more than that too, we file share with Folder Share from Microsoft, so we don’t have to email pictures! She...
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The Health Blog at the Wall Street Journal picks up on some influential health bloggers here and investigates nice credit to the bloggers ( KevinMD and Dr. Secretwave101 ) too! This somewhat shows how complicated the billing process is today for healthcare. There are thousands of codes used...
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This is very perplexing based on the votes the bill had from both the House and Senate and appears now to be a game of cat and mouse or more like “Custer’s Last Stand” in a sense. It is not like he’s risking his political future at this point and after all the work and effort this just seems to...