One more program to confuse us when needing a prescription, although I’m sure there is money to be saved here, but shoot I like the $4.00 or $10.00 generic prescriptions offered by others, no enrollment and no questions asked, simple. For the monthly fee, you might need to be a patient with some...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, health insurance, Prescriptions, Medicare Part D, Aetna, Pharmacy, Costco
Just recently I posted about China looking to revert back to universal health care and this report appears to document that the government and other entities are in fact looking universal care seriously as a solution. Over 200 individuals took part in creating the massive report. BD BEIJING...
As a physician, if you haven’t been marketed yet, you might expect some marketing efforts forthcoming soon. In Florida the insurance companies are offering free e-prescribing and I might guess by going through a clearinghouse that this will go directly into the records of one’s medications with...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, e-prescribing, HMO, e-Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Patient, Pay for Performance
Cerner president speaks out about the insurance business, "they need to be redefined". Amgen CEO and President Kevin Sharer called for a better structured FDA . Overall the summary statement says the same thing I have brought up time and time again, who's going to to...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, medicare, health insurance, FDA, Cerner, Amgen, Fixiing Healthcare
Companies are spending a lot of money lobbying the staff...as many members of Congress either don't utilize technology or don't have a computer...posted in an early entry from an article stating such and that the staff actually creates most of the reports.....BD Health care interests spent $445...
This affects the Midwest area of the US and a few employers, but will this type of action spread as queries are run by the various drug stores and profit levels are determined? The software is out there to do this today, and sometimes done very efficiently...like everything else today, run a query and...