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
One more partner for the Microsoft HealthVault, press release below. Contrary to all it seems to be the last couple days of posts, this is not a total PHR blog. There has been a lot of news in this area and I just wanted to make sure all were aware that other news will continue to be posted...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, health insurance, PHR, Personal Health Records, Aetna, Informed Patient
Over 30 insurance companies have registered for the event in September, along with 100 hospitals. Insurance companies are attending to meet the hospitals, not the hospitals here in the US, those abroad. I did see the AMA mentioned as an attendee. After the meeting, who knows what will be...
Among the items discussed was how IT technology can help with saving money with health care, connecting the patient to the information resources needed. Aetna states there are misconceptions about profits from insurers , that only 6% is a profit margin, well compared to many other industries...