This is sad, but the hurricane did such an insurmountable amount of damage, and now there’s not enough money to rebuild and replace and now the number of medical students is also affected as well as the number of charity cases that will be seen, same story, lack of money and funds. BD The...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, healthcare, Desperate Hosptials, Medical Students, Galveston, Charity Care
This is a good post from the Happy Hospitalists and touches on some of the same areas discussed here with reference to never-never events as well as areas of responsibility and the finances. There are some real gray areas with the never-never events and the comments made herein substantiate this...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, medicare, Physicians, Medical Errors, Hospitalists, Never-Never, deperate hospitals
Wow, huge bills and she was able to borrow 45k but then at admitting time, the hospital wanted another 65k. This was at the MD Anderson Center in Texas. She states that she could pay for her chemotherapy if she washes out here entire retirement funds, tough decision and so now she keeps fighting...
With the new “never-never” provisions of Medicare and insurers now not paying for procedures that entail errors, like leaving an instrument or sponge inside a patient, products such as this one are sure to pick up some momentum, wave the magic wand over the area of the body to see if anything is left...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-08-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Hospital, Surgery, medicare, RFID, Safety, Never-Never, surgical sponges
The comment below from a vendor is interesting, as he comments on the fact that a physician can make an extra $125,000 in 5 years, well some family care practice doctors today in California would like to just be making that in one year, as all the recent contracts with insurance companies are getting...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Charity, CMS, Linux, Donations, bankruptcies
Amazing vote from the legislature to overturn the governor’s veto, not one vote against it. A bill extending hospital discounts to people without health insurance has become the law, after the legislature over-turned Gov. Rod Blagojevich's amendatory veto. There is also a cap of no more...
The new California budget is finally done so hopefully money will once again begin to flow, as nothing has come from Sacramento since July 1st. ER room patients will still be seen no matter what plan they have. It didn’t take even 24 hours for this statement to come out from this hospital after...