According to Forbes, the HMO business and stocks are sick. Also, we still have President Bush stating he’s still going to veto the Medicare bill that was passed this week, why? The bill is veto-proof, so what’s the point? Let’s just make this difficult situation a little more...
They say the Chinese market is complicated, well what do we have here, same thing. Well Point and UnitedHealthCare have already made some inroads as well. The article states they are taking some of the same principles used in the US over there, well good luck as our system can’t get any...
One item to note is that the California Department of Insurance said there are no regulations in place to prevent this, and Blue Shield is perhaps not the only carrier with gender specific costs. It’s all about cracking the numbers is appears, but what will be the next step? We have all the...
There are 2 sides to this, and I would guess it would all depend on what the secret shopper would be looking for. Personally myself, I think as a person, this would be somewhat difficult to do to be an imposter at a medical office, as it’s not like the retail game of mystery shoppers. They...
As posted yesterday the Baucus bill died in the Senate and AARP is not happy with the results as well. Where will Congress find the funds this time is the question that remains to be seen, the the meantime, patients and physicians are put at odds, patients needing doctors and physicians needing...
I like the title here, and it says it all straight forward. A couple years ago I began talking about how this will all going to evolve with clients, small physician practices and they all looked at me like I was crazy, as I was always pushing for a little more use of technology, and basically stating...
How does the physician come out a winner here? We all like those $4.00 medications offered by retailers, and there’s a link on this blog that goes directly to the listings for anyone to read. Patients access this information too. The sad thing about this entire story is the fact that...