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...
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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
In California we are well aware of this with the recent news with Prime Health Care being challenged on this practice as they have no contracts with the insurers and charge their published rates for out of network care, and the patient is stuck in the middle, but from the other side of the coin, some...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-29-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Hospital, health insurance, Physicians, Quest Labs, bankruptcy, Balance Billing, Health Insurance Coverage, Not for Profit Hospitals, Prime Healthcare
How important is the solvency of hospitals in the US? Just last week I commented on a recent situation here in southern California, a sting operation whereby hospitals were caught breaking the law in the search for additional funds from Medicare and Medicaid with using the homeless as reported...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Hospital, bankruptcy, New Jersey, Health Treatments, State Budgets, Medical Services
The insurance executives have taken the medical decisions and good medical care out control of clinicians, pretty simple. Have you had a surgical procedure lately? I had one surgeon recently tell me of procedures lined up by the hour, seven knees in seven hours, now does that make sense? ...
The numbers on charity care speak for themselves. In California there’s something similar going on too with hospitals being closed, perhaps not to the same tune as what is happening in New Jersey. Some hospitals have been saved by being purchased by a company like Prime Healthcare...
Prime Healthcare is growing in size, lagging just a bit behind Kaiser in size. By not having signed contracts, the hospitals can bill at their rate of service charge, so there are no breaks for the insurance companies. The hospitals see everyone in the ER rooms and are pretty much a lot of...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-02-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Hospital, health insurance, Kaiser Permanente, Prime Health Care