Finding the solution still continues and more patient stories are coming out with the effects of what happened to them when over exposed, with hair failing out, rashes, etc. One man was even judged by his co-workers as they thought he had some contagious disease based on the rash that was covering …
Georgia Hospital Contract with United HealthGroup Confusion–Letter Said Yes and CEO Said No–Negotiation Continues
There seems to be a number of these contract negotiation stories hitting the news today as contract become more cumbersome with making sure all the costs are covered. In Florida there are ongoing issues as well. Florida Hospital System Threatening to Drop United HealthGroup Over Rates – Last Con…
Aetna Issues Press Release Relative to Fire Victims in California–We Care But Try to Stay In Network And Update Your PHR If Evacuated
Overall the company is trying to get the information out to those who may have been affected by the horrible fire near Palmdale that is still raging on, and the numbers of helpful by all means, but you can’t help not to miss the area where they are discussing “re-evaluating medical and dental polici…
Dr. Berwick, Director of CMS Talks About Medicare On The 45th Anniversary
This was a live broadcast today from Healthcare.gov with Dr. Don Berwick on the anniversary of Medicare today. Dr. Berwick goes over some of the benefits and changes coming to CMS. Harry and Bess Truman were the first recipients of Medicare and received the first cards. There will be new web c…
Geron Gets FDA Approval To Resume Stem-Cell Study - Spinal Cord Injuries - Go UC Irvine!
The video speaks of where stem cell research is currently in the US and revisits the big breakthrough from a couple years ago when skin cells could be used instead of the actual embryo for research. That discovery rapidly set things on fire for research in so many areas. Mentioned in the video i…
And Now A Word From Wendell Potter About Healthcare Reform and Medical Loss Ratios..
First of all it’s nice to see Mr. Potter over at the Huffington Post and this is where the source of this article comes from. If you are not up to date on who Wendell Potter, here’s a couple links on past articles. He worked for CIGNA for years and was an insurance executive prior to retirement an…
Charles River Purchase of Chinese WuXI Company Not Going to Happen
The shareholders basically said stay here and fix the business in the US rather than risk deals overseas. This is a nice turn about from what we have been hearing in the news of late. The debt ratio here was way out of hand too with being extended farther than what the board felt comfortable with.…
Nighthawk Tele-Radiology Services Gets a Major Upgrade with Cisco And Virtualization
I have covered Nighthawk before and if you have had imaging done after hours at a hospital your images could have been read with their service. One of the biggest outsourced markets in the world. They do more than just the US, it’s global and images consist of MRIs, X-Rays, CT Scans and more. They…
Grassley Sending More Letters–Zimmer Holdings on Knees/Hips–Why Not DePuy And A Couple Others Too–Same Issues & Get A Registry in Place
I am just curious as other have issues too? Can we get Senator Grassley a data base that ties all of this together? We need an overall data base to track all and it would be so much more efficient and a bit more transparent than this process. Lawsuit Filed Against DePuy (Johnson & Johnson Su…
India–Insurance Companies Planning Direct Connection With Suppliers Whereby Patients Will be Required to Use Drugs/Equipment Only Approved by Carriers
The overall fear here was over billing from hospitals so it looks like the choices of patients and hospitals is being reduced t what the carriers approve and the patients have to get their drugs and medical devices “direct”, in other words no hospital billing. This is relative to “private” hospital…
Newt Gingrich Gets Healthcare Value Bass Ackwards–It’s All About Those Algorithms
First of all let me clarify where I am coming from with a short bit of background as to where some of my viewpoints come from. I spent 25 years in marketing and sales and then learned to code and wrote medical software, so I am a bit of hybrid here who first of all analyzes how software will be use…
Private Equity Firm Water Street Healthcare Partners Acquires Medical Specialties Distributors–Subsidiary Watch
One more move with private equity investments in healthcare. If you look at the MSD website you can see a multitude of devices/software listed that they distribute including home care products to include items that have been recalled too. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know the prop…
FDA Advisory – Don’t Share Your Hormone Replacement Therapy With Your Kids and Dogs
This is an FDA approved bio identical drug, which means versus some of the other treatment out on the market, like Premarin, it is stated to be safer. Actually we would like some numbers on this. Dr. Erika Schwartz and I discussed the missing stats on this with the Women’s Health Initiative a whil…
Dr. Berwick Gets a Letter Today From Senator Grassley – Healthcare and Health IT Literacy Out Shadowed Again with 8 Track Tapes?
By taking a look at this letter, I can see what nothing gets accomplished in Congress today requesting the Forms 990 from IHI to include all schedules. Senator Grassley is also asking about his benefits and I assume this might be inquiring as to whether or not he’s going to be a Medicare participan…
California Gov Creates Website for Consumer Alert Email Subscriptions for Health Insurance Rate Hike Increases and Other Relative Information
This is a help and you can pick and choose which alerts you want to receive by email and perhaps in time we could see some of the announcements on Twitter? That’s on the “wish list” here and is my comment. As we are all getting so much busier in life the data overload just keeps on rolling and th…