Is this a new sign of the times with the insurers purchasing HMOs? One thing it will do is bring more under contract with additional services and offices available from the consumer end and the employees of the HMO appear to have benefited with keeping their jobs. BD The area's...
This suit and it's award make me wonder why we do not have "fake employees" at the insurance firms and HMOs? Make sense? In view of all the recent legal awards and court cases, why not. Doctors have to deal with "fake patients" so why not "fake employees"...
The insurance executives have taken the medical decisions and good medical care out control of clinicians, pretty simple. Have you had a surgical procedure lately? I had one surgeon recently tell me of procedures lined up by the hour, seven knees in seven hours, now does that make sense? ...
This has to be one of the best Dr. Doug has put out. This is good watching for both health care staff and patients, with a delicious bit of humor, but he makes his points. This is a rebuttal of the recent Readers Digest article, whereby he was the poster boy. One of the items he discusses...
What happens when you need emergency care and go to a hospital outside of your contract with you health insurance...read on....in once case an accident occurred...total bill was $53,000.00....Anthem Blue Cross paid $25,000.00...big balance left for the insured...hospital and insurance company said privacy...
A minimum of 80 prescriptions is required to qualify for incentives...there's also a PDA version for wireless use...working with partnerships with RelayHealth, and SureScripts...L.A. Care has more than 750,000 enrolled members...ZixCorp also offered a mail encryption service....BD DALLAS, May 22...