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It used to be we would hear some type of concern, but the comments here sound like a torrid of anger, hope this is not a sign of the times when it comes to working with carriers for health care. It makes it sound more like a war than a negotiation process towards working to achieve better healthcare...
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Over 30 insurance companies have registered for the event in September, along with 100 hospitals. Insurance companies are attending to meet the hospitals, not the hospitals here in the US, those abroad. I did see the AMA mentioned as an attendee. After the meeting, who knows what will be...
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This goes back to 2006 when the backlog was cleared by eliminating quality assurance check of their work, so no double check or time outs, errors. If you had a claim turned down by the VA, might be worth looking again to check for errors on the denial. They have no idea as to how many errors took...
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We do lead in spending though, but the rest of the results were not real attractive and dropped down 2 points from 2006. The one big plus was the reduction of blood pressure in the survey. Efficiency was 53 because minimal use of information technology, and high insurance administrative costs...
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The new updates from Medicare, sounds like another 10 days before the ball gets rolling and contractors will need to reprocess some claims, did you get all of this? BD The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 was enacted on July 15, 2008. As a result, the mid...
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In California they are looking for more regulations to keep the health insurance companies in line. I had just posted about the doctors in Texas going to court and Wyoming physicians deciding not to take Medicare or Medicaid this week. Put all these together and it sure points to big issues...
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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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This sounds a lot like here in the US, consumers dropping their private health insurance due to rising costs, except they have a public health care system to go to when ending their private health care insurance. BD ONE of the architects of Medicare has predicted 750,000 people will leave private...
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These are the announcements as relates to healthcare. For the complete listing of others follow the link below. Healthcare is probably one of the toughest markets to analyze today as everything happening is a moving target. Even each area has so many links to other areas, sometimes...
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The hospitals in San Diego all still share on paper. Technology is not the problem here, it has to do more with incentives, for one why would 2 competing hospitals want to share, and I say this from a business standpoint only, as reflected in the article. The next question is who...