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  • CMS spending more time on Guidelines For Medicare Sales Agents

    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...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 11-12-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, medicare, health insurance, CMS, commission, audits
  • Medical Quack on the Wall Street Journal – November 2008

    Two featured posts this week.  Court Blocks White House Push on Medicare Expenses   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...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 11-06-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, AARP, CMS, Medical Quack, Bush Administration, Risk Management, WSJ
  • Medicare rules ban cold-calling by insurers and will use “secret shoppers”

    There is a potential fine for violators and they cannot initiate the call, the consumer has to initiate, but once that is done then it is pretty much up to the consumer once more to make that bone crushing decision, as it’s not getting any easier or simpler to choose.  It’s shame this has to be...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 09-17-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, medicare, health insurance, CMS, part D, Sales and Marketing, Secret shoppers
  • Who's going to pay for the Warfarin Test - Personalized Medicine

    Everyone is waiting to see what CMS decides to do.  Recently in the UK in London there are plans to open clinics just for this purpose and after the initial clinic more are to follow, so how we handle it in the US, everyone is waiting to see.  BD September 9, 2008 | Payers, physicians, and...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 09-13-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, healthcare, health insurance, CMS, warfarin
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