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Some Doctors Trying to Silence Patient Feedback with Waivers

As online physician rating sites become more and more prevalent, some doctors are asking their patients to sign waivers (provided by a NC based company – Medical Justice) to prevent them from providing online feedback without prior consent from the physician.
change:healthcare CEO Christopher Parks, shared his opinion on the matter with Getahn Ward of the [...]

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Tennessean Briefs HCI

“New consumer index analyzes care costs
Nashville-based change:healthcare inc. has started a Healthcare Consumerism Index, a product to help companies and consumers judge the cost-effectiveness of their health-care purchases.
The index analyzes a company’s inpatient and outpatient care and prescriptions to identify the highest and lowest prices paid for comparable products and services within an employee population.”
See [...]

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Concierge Healthcare

“The doctors said he’s comin’, but you’ gotta pay in cash”
-The Eagles
We’ve enjoyed a bit of a free ride for the past several decades when it comes to healthcare. Employers and the government have picked up much of the tab. But now we are starting to pay the price literally. Increasingly we are asked to [...]

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“Site offers to untangle health-care confusion”

Check out this great story published in the Williamson A.M (Tennessean) about Christoper.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008804290319
You can also download a PDF of the article.

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