The comment below from a vendor is interesting, as he comments on the fact that a physician can make an extra $125,000 in 5 years, well some family care practice doctors today in California would like to just be making that in one year, as all the recent contracts with insurance companies are getting...
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on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Charity, CMS, Linux, Donations, bankruptcies
I think the comments below might be impacted on where and who you practice with. Talk with some family practice physicians in California with some very low contract rates and see what you get, private practices. Now talk with physicians who work for a large health care network, let's...
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on 09-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Hospital, healthcare, Doctors, Physicin shortage, Medical Students
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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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
I had a couple friends drag me away from the computer and the blog today to watch a taping of a new talk show series starting this fall. So why is this here on a medical blog, well Bonnie Hunt was an oncology nurse before moving in to the entertainment business. What she learned as a nurse...
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on 08-27-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Hospital, Oncology, Charity, Nursing, Talk Show, Celebrities, Nurse, Extra Extra, Chicago
Congress had paved the way with relaxed Stark rules and regulations for subsidies to take place from the hospital level, but what's still wrong with this picture? It all comes right back around to money. Hospitals are not in a position to spend the money either, so now where do we go...
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on 08-11-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Kaiser, Medical Records, EHR, Start Laws, Epic, IT Health, Hospital Records
How important is the solvency of hospitals in the US? Just last week I commented on a recent situation here in southern California, a sting operation whereby hospitals were caught breaking the law in the search for additional funds from Medicare and Medicaid with using the homeless as reported...
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on 08-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Hospital, bankruptcy, New Jersey, Health Treatments, State Budgets, Medical Services
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? ...