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State of Louisiana Rejects United Healthcare’s Protest Over Awarding Blue Cross/Blue Shield Contract To Manage State Employee Health Insurance–Battle of the Insurance Algorithms Continues..
Here we go again with contract disputes. United said they were cheaper and have better costing algorithms. They can appeal to the insuranc...
Johnson and Johnson Synthes Division Recalls Bone Putty As Product Could Catch on Fire During Surgery
Well J and J didn’t get a break with recalls and this is their new division that was purchased last year, Synthes. Occasionally there are ...
President of Ireland With Scathing Critique of US Healthcare System Video–In the US Its All About the Algorithms for Profit–Time for New Leadership With Technology Backgrounds at HHS and at the SEC
The president of Ireland spent some time in the US and this is interesting to hear someone on the outside looking in. Yup we have very path...
Former Executives of ArthroCare Charged With Defrauding Investors by Inflating Revenue and Creating False Shipments and Orders to Meet Wall Street Forecasts
Boy did I see a bunch of this in my past lifetime. I used to deal with logistics managers who got so frustrated on orders shipped the last...
NIH Hospital Used Gene Sequencing (DNA) to Stalk and Identify Deadly Strain of Klebsiella Pneumonia Where 11 Patient Died With Hospital Acquired Infections
The infection began with a patient that was transferred from a New York hospital that had a history of drug resistant infections and the inf...
Two Health Insurance Executives in Florida Arrested & Face 13 Felony Charges for Concealing Insolvency of the Firm
In December of 2011, Medicare terminated it’s contract with the firm. The company was based in Tampa, Florida. Medicare found at this time ...
Medical Records Sold for Profit From ER Room In Florida Hospital–FBI Makes Arrest -Time License & Quarterly Excise Tax Banks, Companies, Etc. Who Sell Data & Give Law Enforcement A Leg To Stand On
Look how long this took, ok with licensing and excise taxing “any” data seller..law enforcement would have had grounds here, “selling data ...
Walgreens Expands Take Care EHR Medical Records to be Available at All Drug Store Locations for Reference–Not For Me I’d Rather Use My PHR And Choose What I Want To Share…
The medical records system used at Walgreens retail clinics is provided by Greenway Medical and now in addition to the clinics access will ...
Kindred Healthcare Buys Private Equity Held IntegraCare Holdings for $71 Million
Last year Kindred purchased RehabCare and now we have another company purchased that offers state of the art care for seniors, assisted sen...
Here We Go Again–Digital Illiteracy With Lawmakers & Those Running for Office–Back to the “Default” Topic of Women’s Health With A Need to Control Something When the Intellect Is Not There…Akin
I guess it’s time once more to address the “digital illiteracy” and lack of focus of lawmakers and those running for office once more with t...
Allscripts Turns to Microsoft To Expand Their Application Development
If you remember back at the end of the first quarter Allscripts was under the gun a bit with not having their two integrated systems ready t...
Steward Healthcare Signs Letter to Acquire More Catholic Hospitals–Mercy Health System of Maine
Steward is the hospital management company owned by Private Equity Firm Cerberus Capital Management which purchased several Catholic hospita...
US Health Panel Suggests Making HIV Testing/Screening Standard Practice–Public Comment Section Coming Soon-Let’s Make the Process Simple
This is a heated topic for sure and when you look at the doctor’s side of this as one MD commented, there’s a lot of counseling and advising...
California Attorney General Suing Los Angeles Doctor For Refusing to Accept Lower Insurance Payments and Balance Billing Patients for Full Amounts
This is scary story if all in fact here is true about the practice of the doctor. We all know that doctors reimbursement contracts keep get...
E-Scoring Credit Algorithms Invisible To Consumers Used to Market and Evaluate, Does Not Fall Under Federal Law And Such Are Used by Insurance Companies - How Will This Work With Exchanges –Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 42
This is a good question as we have states debating and some setting up health insurance exchanges. E-scoring as noted here does not fall u...
Weather Derivatives? Manipulating the Weather for Profit “What in the World are They Spraying” Video Documentary–ChemTrails For Profit
This is interesting on how the weather is changing and the chemtrails. If you can control the weather you can control where rain f...
Aetna To Buy Coventry Healthcare for $5.7 Billion in Cash and Stock
Here we go again with more subsidiaries and buy outs and this time Aetna is going for the Medicaid and Medicare groups as well with this pur...
