We still live in a risk management world, one where the Department of Managed Care is shadowed by the power of the insurance companies; laws and regulations just seem to make everyone miserable these days. No matter how you look at it, all the problems these days come from one source, lack of payment...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Balance Billing, Department of Managed Care
This goes back to the situation with Prime Health Care hospitals. Prime owns several hospitals in California and does not have contracts with the insurance companies, and has the ER rooms to accommodate all. When the insurer pays what they feel is owed and the charges go beyond this...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Hospitals, California, Balance Billing, Department of Managed Care