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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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
A qualified system is not faxing! Many offices who are set up with an EMR or EHR are already covered and are either set up and ready to go or have the capabilities. For those who are not, there’s a permanent link on this page to NEPSI, the free e-prescribing initiative where you can sign...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, Physicians, Prescriptions, e-prescribing
The costs of cancer treatment and associated drugs is rising as we all know. We are pouring money into R and D as fast as we can, and yes that does cost money, but insurers are making it hard to get insurance coverage and somewhere along the line you need to have a drug that is affordable as well...
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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, health insurance, Generic Drugs, Biomed, Biosimilars, 4 tier
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...
This brings up one big issue, something I have been aware of for a while, collecting data for one purpose and being used for another, think this doesn't happen, think again. When you sign up for health insurance, you sign you life away for all this data to be collected and reviewed for the...
One more way for the information to run queries to cherry pick applicants is accomplished. When you apply for insurance, the fine writing will usually state that you are giving permission to check any medical information and records and, yes, this includes prescriptions. Even the $4.00 generic...