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Cerner president speaks out about the insurance business, "they need to be redefined". Amgen CEO and President Kevin Sharer called for a better structured FDA . Overall the summary statement says the same thing I have brought up time and time again, who's going to to...
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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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Read up here if you have not heard of the MIB, and you might just find you have a file, that is if you have been to a physician and had insurance cover the visits or any other health issues. This is an exchange between all insurance companies with a data base where they can all exchange notes, so if...
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Interestingly enough, while I was watching this video, my cell phone rings from Anthem Blue Cross with an automated questioning system about taking care of my health, somewhat of a parody as I was reviewing the video for the blog. I went through the system and first off I do have to make one comment...
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More additional affiliations for the FDA to gather information. In the news recently have been other agreements with companies such as Blue Cross and others who will be providing data to also study the effects of drugs through medical record information in their files, based on claims, etc. No...
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This brings up an interesting question, what do you go for relief or bankruptcy? Although now it is not real wide spread, but as the Biomed business continues to grow with new break throughs, how will this process continue? Is this more justification for biosimilars, the Biomed side of generic...
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This goes back to the situation with Prime Health Care hospitals. Prime owns several hospitals in California and does not have contracts with the insurance companies, and has the ER rooms to accommodate all. When the insurer pays what they feel is owed and the charges go beyond this...
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Employers made penalty payments of only about $7 million in the past year, so are they opting to pay penalties versus providing insurance? Is it cheaper to pay a penalty than to provide coverage? In a downtime for the economy it's getting difficult to force compliance when the money is...
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PFFS plans now cost the government more per patient than traditional Medicare. Be informed and watch for the rate increases to perhaps roll in. There is a a little time left before this is law, but as the article states, insurers could possibly start ahead of time with creating networks...
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Stories like this are sad indeed. It comes back to the dollar and someone playing "God" to determine who gets treatment and who does not. Granted personalized medicine tests will help in time, not only from the actual treatment side, but from the information side of things as well...