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OrderMedicalRecords.Com–Company That You Can Hire to Get Copies of Your Medical Records & A Service for Retiring Doctors With Medical Record Transfers for Patients to New Doctors
I almost feel like this is somewhat of a public service post here as I have read so many stories about patients trying to get copies of their medical records and if they are still “paper” records, well that takes a bit longer as we all know. Sometimes you luck out and it’s not that hard, but every …
“The Tax Free Tour” Documentary on How the Tax Havens Work, Who Runs and Owns Them, How Accountants Are Taking Over the Regulators And Not Held Accountable…
If you liked the video about the Quants, which is always located in the footer of this blog, this is another film they made and it does good a job of explaining how the big corporations get their tax havens. Right out of the barrel they begin with Apple and interesting how they explain and the Neth…
Mayo Blooming Prairie Clinic Closes As Only Person Licensed to See Patients Resigned, Replacement Needed
The closure was real quick, as most said they heard it on Tuesday and on Wednesday the clinic was closed. The only person at the clinic who could see patients, a nurse practitioner left. So the clinic is looking for a replacement and the reason for the closure is “staff shortage”. Her page is sti…
Walgreens Accused of Overcharging Customers-Algorithms-Drug Stores Have to Pay Penalties on Their Issues, Why Does Wall Street Skate When Their Killer Algorithms Attack?
You can read this report and it pretty much tells you that someone didn’t get the data input done on time or missed some to coincide with what was advertised…algorithms are also supposed to check and make sure both are in sync too besides a manual data entry operation alone. You can read in the ar…
FTC Tries to Bring Strong Case for Consumer Protections With Use of Data–But Nothing About Creating IT Infrastructure Path to Allow Regulation–Gov Can’t or Won’t Model?
As you should be aware today everything requires an IT infrastructure to run and if you have not come to terms with that, well it is what it is. It seems like we have the same old problem here with yet another attorney trying to make headway in a very high tech world with more low tech solutions an…
Kaiser Permanente IT Center Opens in Colorado–Looking to Add More Employees to Existing Base of 350
This is interesting to watch how different companies in healthcare are expanding in some areas and retreating in other. Aetna for one pulled out of the Colorado insurance market a while back and they continue to leave other markets. Just the size of the number of employees should give all an indic…
California Insurance Exchange Website Live for Price Comparisons and Information–A Quick Walk Through…
I read it was open so off I went to look around. In addition there are new commercials that have begun running advertising “Covered California”. So I plugged some numbers in for a person being 55, income of $40k a year and no dependent and insurance for only one. I was presented with the tiers o…
Update on Dr. Afridi–Will Get a New Trial–Helped US Capture Bin Laden and Has Been Jailed Since Then In Pakistan
You have probably seen this and the widget on my blog for a few months now, well today there’s some good news for him. The New York Times actually adds some new details too that I was not aware of in the fact that he worked with the US CIA for three years on this project. Now it appears an officia…
HHS Rules Exchange Customers Who Are “Unbanked” Can Use Prepaid Credit Cards To Pay Premiums
That’s the first time I have hear this term “unbanked” as I have heard “inadequately banked” and “under banked” before. If this is not a sign of the times on how much control banks have, even the terminology! Unbanked means you don’t have an account at a bank so to allow payments from those who ei…
Pharma and Health Insurance Companies Pairing Up, Humana’s Analytics Subsidiary and Lilly To Figure Out How to Save (Make) Money and Provide Better Patient Care–Selling Research Data That Competes With FDA Sentinel Initiative
I guess one could make a lot of comments about this but as I have stated if you think insurance is just about claims and policies anymore, you better take a second look, and here’s one good example with truckloads of subsidiaries that all put money to the corporate bottom line and with an army of su…
Aetna Will Not Sell Insurance on New York Health Insurance Exchange
Here we go again, and if you have not caught wind of this yet, “it’s a business decision” based on extreme math modeling and profits. Aetna not too long ago also pulled out of California on both the exchanges and is no longer selling individual policies, they all want the business accounts via empl…
ONC Has Another New Contest–Toss Another App Out to the Consumers, But Hey Around 69% of all Mobile Apps Have Just Been Reported “Dead”…
This may be an odd time for such a contest as you really have to look and see what apps are “really” getting used. They take time to use and people seem to forget that and there are good ones out there but there’s a ton of “me too’s” and the Quantified Self folks seem to think you should be using a…
Hospital Lay Offs Coming Around Again…
Here’s a few of what’s been in the news the last few days…Baptist in Memphis is laying off 61 employees… Mission Hospital in Asheville is laying off somewhere around 70 employees and they hope to keep it at less than that number… Big lay off of 500 employees in the Washington state area with Peace…
United Healthcare to End Denial of Speech Therapy Reimbursement in California
This was brought about by the Department of Managed Care as California has 2 entities that over see health insurance. This division is specific to monitoring HMOs. With the new agreement patients will be given the care they need for speech therapy when it is medically needed and many were imprope…
FDA Approves A New Drug to Fight HIV From Glaxo
This is not a new approval that has additional claims to do what other drugs can’t do, just one more drug. It is a once a day pill. BD The Food and Drug Administration recently added Tivicay, also known as dolutegravir, to the arsenal of pharmaceuticals available to fight HIV-1 infections. Th…
Epic Medical Records System Crashes at Sutter–Down for Around 8 Hours
Nobody likes to hear these stories but it happens. Of course all will be digging through to see what was the cause and it could have been the updates that were recently added. Even when you do your Windows updates you get one that doesn’t load properly and you have to do a restore and do it again.…
Insurers Certainly Like Consumer/Business Healthcare Apps: Subsidiary of Blue Cross Rolls & Couple Others Out $20 Additional Million in Funding to Audax First Backed by Cigna & Cardinal Health
What’s not to like about getting more data to sell? I took a look at the Audax Health page and it looks like yet one more of those websites that wasn’t to educate people on how to get healthier. Don’t we have enough of those yet…guess not when it comes to collecting and selling data and profiles. …
Wal-Mart To Offer Health Insurance Coverage for Domestic Partners Next Year With Rules And Parameters to Meet To Qualify
There are some good things in here and specifically where the provisions relate to what a “spouse” or “partner” parameter is. The company has over a million employees and same sex marriages are recognized. “Employees' domestic partners can be covered if they are legal spouses, not legally separat…
American Medical Association Shutting Down AMA News Magazine in September
Both the printed version and the website will close on September 9th. The magazine has been published for 55 years and there’s a lack of revenue and the inability to show a profit today. Revenue is only a third of what it was 10 years ago. Drop in advertisers was a big drop, especially from the ph…
United Healthcare Sues Government Contractor, Paragon for Unpaid Health Insurance Premiums
Here’s yet one more lawsuit from United to where they are stating the company did not pay all their premiums in full. The company, however says it’s not true and they have moved on to another carrier when the United contract expired at the end of 2012. The case is for over $200,000 and United stat…
Medicare Admissions Rules Causing Havoc, Need a New Model As It Is Becoming Yet One More Way to Shift Cost to the Patients
We all know about the re-admissions rules and penalties that put the fear of God into hospitals today and they all work to be compliant, however, if better intelligence were used ahead of the game to model some of the unintended circumstances, we might have some better rules come out as now they con…
