This very extensive article examines various hospitals in Massachusetts and the cost of the same procedures at different hospitals, and then continues further to discuss how this happens; contracts with the insurers and the ability to use “branding” to command a higher rate, all the big centers do it...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Physicians, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Balance Billing, Transparancy, Debt consolidation, Vendors, Hosptials
This brings about a good question when it comes to paying commissions on selling health insurance, why do we need to pay this and not have some additional revenues paid here go towards claims? The reason I say this is so many of the health insurance brokers are just web sites that bring many carriers...
I am glad someone else out there on the web has also chimed in here on this subject too. I have pen named some of the medical devices offered today as “ Intrusive Technology”, and it lives out there among us, whether we know it or not. It also goes beyond just the doctor-patient relationship...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-09-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Devices, software, Caregivers, monitoring devices, Intrusive Technology
This may be a result of the questions posed last week by Senator Grassley. It is getting even more complicated as insurance companies work on new algorithms to create new insurance plans and add them to the large pool of plans offered and it does not appear to be getting any easier to be able...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-09-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, AARP, Congress, Medicaid, software, Patient Advocacy, Health Insuance, United HealthCare
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 for a given item, not just the item itself, was “reasonable and necessary.” How...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Pharma, Congress, CMS, Medicare contractor, Drug costs, Federal Court
Coming out of the studies and search for a solution new co-pays of $30 for primary care doctor visits and $40 for specialists are showing up. Employees are being urged to use an urgent clinic location versus the emergency room when perhaps a visit there would be less expensive than the traditional ER...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-02-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Devices, Home Monitoring, Health Insurace, Human Audit Trail, Wellness Programs, Health Savings Accounts
Every blogger, myself included has written about the upcoming shortage of physicians, well this is predicated on better healthcare, but as we are seeing from the downturn in the economy, people are not going to the doctor to take care of their health, it is still a “risk management world” out there,...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Physicians, Primary Care, Patients, Risk Management, information overlaod