This story about Walgreens illustrates a little bit of both. After the economy and Wall Street news of the last couple of weeks, we should know now about how programmers set algorithms to select, process and deliver data. Need a refresher, you can check here relative to Wall Street out coding...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, Medicaid, Medications, Medicare contractor, Whistle Blower, Data, Data Base, Algorithms
This is the 3rd settlement with Walgreens …the cost of the tablets were a little bit more than capsules in this instance…and the charges could have been triple the amount and Medicaid was footing the bill, in other words, the taxpayers. In addition, an agreement was signed with the department of...