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...
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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...
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on 11-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Surgery, health insurance, Hospitals, Blue Cross, Medical Tourism, India, Risk Management, Wellpoint
FDA approved - investigational? Why do we have issues with insurance companies? Where does the money get spent, California is trying to change this to where 85% of premium money goes towards healthcare. It does make you wonder sometimes when you see so many projects funded by insurance...
Interestingly enough, while I was watching this video, my cell phone rings from Anthem Blue Cross with an automated questioning system about taking care of my health, somewhat of a parody as I was reviewing the video for the blog. I went through the system and first off I do have to make one comment...
Posted to
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on 08-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, privacy, health insurance, Marketing, Blue Cross, bankruptcy
It used to be we would hear some type of concern, but the comments here sound like a torrid of anger, hope this is not a sign of the times when it comes to working with carriers for health care. It makes it sound more like a war than a negotiation process towards working to achieve better healthcare...
Good news to help some of the financially strapped hospitals here in California, but how much will each one actually see, as 11.8 million among 480 hospitals is not a huge chunk of change. In the meantime though, the current woes for WellPoint continue over stiffer penalties. One report from last...