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In California we are well aware of this with the recent news with Prime Health Care being challenged on this practice as they have no contracts with the insurers and charge their published rates for out of network care, and the patient is stuck in the middle, but from the other side of the coin, some...
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More hospitals fighting budgets and having enough money in the till to offer good patient services and stay in business. Surgery rooms schedules are tighter these days too, with operating the rooms at the shortest time element possible as well, somewhat additional stress at times for hospital workers...
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This advice is from a family practice doctor, who went from a private practice to a group practice, moving up to over 1000 patients from a few hundred, it does make a difference, as she states even Marcus Welby only had a couple hundred or so patients to keep track of, and we all know the days of Marcus...
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The MediGo centers opening at three Navarro pharmacies in Miami-Dade County are affiliated with Mercy Hospital, and doctors will be seeing patients in the stores. This is a change where actual doctors associated with the hospital will be on duty. An average visit is $55.00 and this is another...
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This story from the WSJ is a bit spooky and sad. Do patient advocates understand mental illness? This patient was able to get representation and was released and later killed his mother. When on a "high" they can be very convincing, and yet later when the disease takes over...
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The most amazing part of this article is the cost compared to OxyContin, that was an eye opener for me, not being acquainted with pain killing medications. Xanax and Valium do not mix here either and we all remember the Anna Nicole Smith death, which probably accounted for bring methadone to the...
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Some things in sales don't change no matter what field you are in and Pharma is no different, sales are made by building relationships, in other words, people do business with people they like, so the peer articles maybe could be just a little off target. I spent over 20 years in outside sales...
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Medical bloggers have a stock pile of valuable information, as referenced in this post. If you don't find answers here at this blog, check out some of the links on this site and explore, chances are you might find some very good references. The one item that is still somewhat of an annoyance...
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This is good news for the medical records business, or those that use SNOMED. The system helps create terminology that is used anywhere so diagnosis and other related information is the same, where ever it is read. BD The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization...
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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? ...