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This story about Walgreens illustrates a little bit of both. After the economy and Wall Street news of the last couple of weeks, we should know now about how programmers set algorithms to select, process and deliver data. Need a refresher, you can check here relative to Wall Street out coding...
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“ There's nothing in the rules that says you can't get divorced for Medicaid”…first it was getting married for insurance benefits and now it’s getting divorced for Medicaid. Healthcare is starting to erode a lot of ethics here , and all due to money. If this doesn’t point out that...
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This one will be interesting to see the outcome. From what I have seen, there is more emphasis on working with people to live in a home environment instead of being in a facility, but each case I am guessing has to be looked at on it’s own, but on the other hand if we have the “money” issue coming in...
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Hospice is not an issue anyone really wants to take a full look at, that is unless you or a family member are impacted. Budget cuts are already making things difficult in this area, so sad we have to resort to continued legal actions to allow the funds needed to care for seniors who need the care...
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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...
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Dr. Doug Farrago with his input on what's happening in Massachusetts with their healthcare system. Long and short of all of this, is who's going to pay the bill? I feature Dr. Farrago under my "Need a Laugh" section as he produces new videos, I like his humor and unique...
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Desperate hospitals taking desperate measures, with none of this being legal and lead a couple arrests with more to come. Empty beds cost hospitals money, so was this an attempt to fill the beds or fill some pockets. Over 50% of the hospitals in the US border on insolvency. ...
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The practice wrote and went directly to the governor’s office. Around 10- 15k stand to lose their primary care providers if this happens. The doctors stated it was an “economical” decision, and with the recent “economical” decisions in the drug industry, those may not always be the best. ...
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AARP gets in to action with their letter to congress relative to the pending Medicare and Medicaid budget cuts as it will mean reduced medical care for seniors and those on Medicaid as the states will not be able to sustain the expense alone…BD AARP today sent a letter to Congressional leaders...
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Sine the closing of Martin Luther King Hospital, things have been a little bit crazy in trying to cover the residents who depended on the hospital. When a 911 call goes out, patients don’t know where they will end up, St. Francis, Kaiser, or Long Beach. Most residents are on Medicaid, in California known...