In a related story today an article discusses their new portal that has plans to be incorporated with QuikenHealth in 2009 and will become a Microsoft HealthVault Partner. If it is connected with HealthVault for the convenience of importing claim and other information, that portion could be good...
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on 12-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, health insurance, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Fines, United HealthCare, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, audit
This might have a bit to say about the IT departments, or the antiquated equipment in place, but with all the large profits being made by health insurers I would guess the have invested heavily as they have with all their reporting services and claim algorithms for calculating claims and approvals for...
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on 11-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Computers, health insurance, Health IT, Cigna, Lawsuits, United HealthCare
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...
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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
Two featured posts this week. Court Blocks White House Push on Medicare Expenses This particular statement really bothers me, is CMS now going to take on the role of “doctor here? “The Bush administration argued that Medicare officials had the right to decide whether the expense incurred...
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on 11-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, AARP, CMS, Medical Quack, Bush Administration, Risk Management, WSJ
This is one update I do not look forward to posting, but the list and updates keep growing and coming in. We have Prime Healthcare here in California buying hospitals that would otherwise be gone, and the solutions offered by Prime are not particularly attractive due to the current balance billing...
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on 11-02-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, Hospitals, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Prime Healthcare, Desperate Hospitals, Healthcre
As the article states, you don’t need marketing for cancer drugs, as the need is unfortunately already there, thus marketing for cancer drugs does not necessarily carry the same sales expense as do other drugs. We have all seen the “tiered plans” on what level drugs are listed with insurance coverage...
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on 10-13-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, personalized medicine, Genomics, health insurance, Pharma, Prescriptions, Cancer, R and D, Science 2.0
The Human audit trail has arrived or I should say will arrive in January. Will we someday all be walking around with a device like this clipped to our clothing? This looks like an item that could be integrated in to one of the online Personal Healthcare Records programs as a next step . ...
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on 10-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, health insurance, PHR, Google Health, HealthVault, software, fitness monitoring, Fitness, Big Brother, Employer health InsuranceInsurance