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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-02-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, Hospitals, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Prime Healthcare, Desperate Hospitals, Healthcre
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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-29-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Hospital, health insurance, Physicians, Quest Labs, bankruptcy, Balance Billing, Health Insurance Coverage, Not for Profit Hospitals, Prime Healthcare