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United Healthcare Denies Diabetes Pumps for Insured Members That Other Insurers Cover–Medtronic MiniMed 530G
There has to be a way to keep shareholder interesting rolling right? What makes this story interesting is the fact that other insurers are already covering the device and United, who preaches preventional medicine doesn’t seem to be in line with what most of what they write today? You can read th…
“Get Your F**king Kids Vaccinated” – Jimmy Kimmel With a “Message From Real Doctors Who Know What The Hell They Are Talking About”…
This is good all the way around and what better way to share the love here. I like the way that Kimmel emphasizes that “doctors know what they are talking about” as today we have insurers and others constantly picking them to death on their decisions. Doctors didn’t learn about …
United Healthcare To Now Require Prior Approval on Non Vaginal Hysterectomy Procedures–Laparoscopic Power Morcellator Controversy Fueled the Fire And Now More Savings To Facilitate Bigger Stock Buy Backs?
You may or may not have read about the morcellator issues with the potential to spread cancer cells, but it’s been out there and all non vaginal hysterectomies don’t require the use of that tool; however it gave United Healthcare the fuel they needed to cut costs and require approval for non vaginal…
Why Do We Discuss Supreme Court Ruling On Affordable Care Act Like a Bunch of Morons? Want to Make Changes and Review Legal Interpretation? Bring Code Please
I tweeted this yesterday and I think it deserves an actual blog post to bring a little bit of reality into the picture after seeing all the “Magpie Tweets” on this topic yesterday. Have we all forgotten about the roll out of Healthcare.Gov? Have we all forgotten that there’s still work in progress…
Does Your Doctor Share Your Medical Record Information With an HIE (Health Information Exchange)…
This is a question that may come up from time to time. Pam from the World Privacy Forum explains how it works in California. Also you can request the Notice of Privacy Practices. Most providers do provide this information and as she states sometimes there’s an additional statement that shows what…
Apple and Google Have Still Not Removed Dangerous App Used for Checking Blood Pressure and More “Me Too Apps” Arrive
This is an interesting story here from a doctor who works in an ER and is right on top of all of this. The big issue here is questioning the accuracy of the readings for the first issue with the app. We all know how we need the blood pressure cuff to get an accurate reading and there are numerous …
TissuGlu Gets FDA Approval as Ground Breaking Internal Surgical Adhesive–Eliminates Need for Drainage Tubes!
The video explains the difference between adhesives and sealants and I learned something by watching the video as well. Not having to go home with drainage tubes as a patient, this is huge, I don’t care who you are, if that’s an option, I think everyone would be for it. TissuGlu can now begin …
“The Data Exchange” Buy and Sell Data on Self Service Website, One More Reason to Index and License Data Sellers-This Appears to be Open Game for Selling Repackaged Personal Data-No Privacy At All
I know I sound like a broken record here but there’s good reason for this. I found this site on the web a while back and it appears to be growing and more data for sale is appearing. There are legitimate lists here for sale that we have all seen forever on the web too. What I want to call your …
Health Insurance Companies Providing Charge Cards And/Or Coupons For Healthy Foods–More Data To Collect About You And Potentially Repackage and Sell For A Profit…
We all know by now that a card or coupon is just one more way to track what you do and insurers these days can’t get enough relevant and non relevant data to analyze. For insurers, it works well to have these globs of data that they may not know what they will do with yet, but the complexities…
United Healthcare Extending Narrow Networks in California–More Secret Scoring of Doctors in the US–Telling The Doctors If They Are “Allowed” To Be In Network…
Here we go again the “too big to fail” health insurer at it again. Read some of this and see why even the doctors have trouble knowing they are in network, much less patients trying to figure all of this out. Insurers make money by making contract complex and this is no exception. Doctors don’t e…
Anthem Data Breach–Crooks Want to Sell Data Too–The Impact of the “Data Selling For Profit Epidemic” That Exists in the US With Scoring Consumers Removing Access and Human Dignity
We have a somewhat new breed of hackers out there today. I'm sure by now you have read one of the many articles about what was taken, but pretty much it was demographics on the insured or prior insured. 80 million files is a lot of data. Today's hackers want to make money selling data too. If th…
Anthem Security Breach–Take A Look At Lifelock Services to Protect Your Identity-Receive A MedicalQuack Discount
The MedicalQuack officially did go broke but with the big security breach from Anthem, I thought this post was necessary. We don’t know yet or at least I have not read what services Anthem will be supplying but if you want to take your identity in your own hands, here’s an option for you with Lifel…
