This is sad, but the hurricane did such an insurmountable amount of damage, and now there’s not enough money to rebuild and replace and now the number of medical students is also affected as well as the number of charity cases that will be seen, same story, lack of money and funds. BD The...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, healthcare, Desperate Hosptials, Medical Students, Galveston, Charity Care
This is a good post from the Happy Hospitalists and touches on some of the same areas discussed here with reference to never-never events as well as areas of responsibility and the finances. There are some real gray areas with the never-never events and the comments made herein substantiate this...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, medicare, Physicians, Medical Errors, Hospitalists, Never-Never, deperate hospitals
The comment below from a vendor is interesting, as he comments on the fact that a physician can make an extra $125,000 in 5 years, well some family care practice doctors today in California would like to just be making that in one year, as all the recent contracts with insurance companies are getting...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Charity, CMS, Linux, Donations, bankruptcies
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
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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR
The numbers on charity care speak for themselves. In California there’s something similar going on too with hospitals being closed, perhaps not to the same tune as what is happening in New Jersey. Some hospitals have been saved by being purchased by a company like Prime Healthcare...
One other area where high gas prices are taking a toll, especially in rural areas. In this particular area, if one lives more than 40-50 miles away, they are just out of luck for any service at all. The changed reimbursement system is the main cause for the problem here. Without a change...