Where does the greed lie perhaps might be the question. Today it takes a lot of money to create a new drug and as we have seen from the new approach from the FDA, more information and documentation is required. Investors want a return on some of the biotech research that has not quite matured yet...
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on 10-26-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, Physicians, HMO, Hospitals, Fraud, NIH, Whistle Blower, Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas, Greed
Now this has become a legal issue with the State of California, can this stand with not covering Viagra? It might appear the jury is going to be out on this one for a while and there are other drugs that come in to play with HMO coverage. What is and what is not covered is becoming a big issue...
As a physician, if you haven’t been marketed yet, you might expect some marketing efforts forthcoming soon. In Florida the insurance companies are offering free e-prescribing and I might guess by going through a clearinghouse that this will go directly into the records of one’s medications with...
Posted to
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on 09-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, e-prescribing, HMO, e-Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Patient, Pay for Performance
I was speaking with a family practice physician this week on the east coast, and this is exactly what was said to me. We were discussing some technology items as it relates to health care and about how things are evolving. This physician has relied on both cash and PPO patients for quite...
Posted to
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on 09-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, HMO, Patient, Family Practice, Medical Office Space
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...
This suit and it's award make me wonder why we do not have "fake employees" at the insurance firms and HMOs? Make sense? In view of all the recent legal awards and court cases, why not. Doctors have to deal with "fake patients" so why not "fake employees"...
A minimum of 80 prescriptions is required to qualify for incentives...there's also a PDA version for wireless use...working with partnerships with RelayHealth, and SureScripts...L.A. Care has more than 750,000 enrolled members...ZixCorp also offered a mail encryption service....BD DALLAS, May 22...