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
Identity theft has reached a new plateau. How does one feel about a story like this, as he needed the surgery to save his life and he felt there was no other alternative. What he did was not right by any shape or form, but again, when threatened with death, desperate people do desperate things...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-28-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, Surgery, healthcare, medical, Medicaid, identity theft, Fraud, Heart Surgery