Healthcare and the way it is practices has certainly changed over the last few years, no doubt about it. Technology though is not the reason to blame in it’s entirety though, it’s the other stuff that goes along with others initializing technology and software benefits that hits below the belt...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, Congress, Medicaid, software, Patient Advocacy, Health Insuance, Point of Care, Physician Overload
This may be a result of the questions posed last week by Senator Grassley. It is getting even more complicated as insurance companies work on new algorithms to create new insurance plans and add them to the large pool of plans offered and it does not appear to be getting any easier to be able...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-09-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, AARP, Congress, Medicaid, software, Patient Advocacy, Health Insuance, United HealthCare
According to Forbes, the HMO business and stocks are sick. Also, we still have President Bush stating he’s still going to veto the Medicare bill that was passed this week, why? The bill is veto-proof, so what’s the point? Let’s just make this difficult situation a little more...
Well this one won’t be vetoed hopefully as it can be overridden, good news. This will hold us off until next January until we may once again go through the same motions, unless a new plan is developed between now and then. He surprised everyone and wanted to make sure his vote was...
Update: Tri-Care is also tied to Medicare, which is the plan for civilian members and physicians have a low reimbursement rate here as well, some some civilian members of the military could stand to lose access as well if physicians consider dropping these members as well, around 9 million...
Amazing how this went on for so long and the living doctors have problems getting items approved. At any rate, new procedures are being activated, perhaps such as moving an ID number and name to the “inactive” listing. This is something a query could have caught in a data base if programmed...
As Congress returns to session this week the battle goes on regarding the Medicare pay cuts. Who needs the money the worst, the insurance companies or the doctors? My vote goes for the MDs. Why, because this will work a hardship and create access problems for seniors. A couple...