One more reason to think about a PHR, personal health record. Earlier today it was announced that United Healthcare was offering their own PHR, but this set up makes more sense to me, import your information from Blue Cross in to your Google Health Record, in other words you are still in control...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 12-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, Blue Cross, personal heatlh records, mentors
This ruling puts emergency physicians in a hard spot, but protects consumers. This goes back to the Prime/Kaiser scenario and more can be found under the related reading section here. There is a separate case pending with the California Supreme Court, so the matter is not closed yet by any means...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, health insurance, Health Care, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross, Balance Billing, Prime Healthcare, Venture Capital, Californa Medical Association, Insurance Reserves, Out of network care
Health Insurance companies despite the downturned economy are still showing major profits and as stated below maintaining some pretty large “reserve” funds, money that basically just sits there and collects interest, which is some pretty large dollar amounts and the related reading below will give some...
Posted to
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on 11-15-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Hospitals, Blue Cross, bankruptcy, Desperate Hospitals, Blue Shield, Venture Capital, Reserve Funds, Profits, Bank
If you work at Serigraph, a specialty printer based in West Bend, Wisconsin, you will be part of the pilot program. It starts in January and offers no out of pocket expenses for the employee. Hospital are approved by the joint commission. The rights and remedies statement below interesting...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Surgery, health insurance, Hospitals, Blue Cross, Medical Tourism, India, Risk Management, Wellpoint
Sandbox Industries will be the responsible party to manage the 116 million dollar fund. Interesting that their first investment was an EHR/data integrator health service. The information management portion consolidates and integrates data through the HL7 format. They also offer services...
Posted to
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on 11-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, EHR, Blue Cross, Practice Management, Blue Shield, Venture Capital, data integration, provider, payers, Technology software
Well Point and United Healthcare have created their own banks, it was either this or connect with a 3rd party. I first posted about this last year and you can read the articles under related posts below. It is still a risk management business by all means though, so this is just another expansion...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Physicians, Blue Cross, Doctors, Insurance plans, Wellpoint, Insurance premiums, United HealthCare, Banks, Consumer Healthcare
We all complain about having to wait and the referral process of HMOs. This is a good post to take a look at here as this man has created an online diary as to the processes that are taking place to get his hip surgery done, a replacement for an artificial hip that is failing. He driving...