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Insurance

Your Insurance Saved You $84.99

That’s the line that stared back at me from the printout on the prescription the bag came in.
Your insurance saved you $84.99.
Did my insurance truly “save me $84.99″ I wondered.
Like most of us with private insurance, I don’t get EOBs for my prescriptions. I simply pay a prescription co-pay of $10 for generics and $35 [...]

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Health Blog : Payers Propose to Boost Primary Care

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I certainly think it’s a good idea. The vast majority of medical inflation starts with medical equipment manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies, passed on through docs to patients to diagnose and care for chronic conditions caught too late by overworked, underpaid (and often the least skilled since they are the lowest paid) docs. This is counter-intuitive… [...]

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At SIIA in Chicago and we’re the unexpected hot company

I know that I’ve continued to be silent since we announced our $1 million dollar Series A round of investment… but we’ve been busy ramping things up!  Jeez, i don’t even know where to start.

I have no idea why I’ve included the attached picture except to say that these two guys crack me up [...]

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What are we really fighting for… access or choice?

For some reason no one seems to be distinguishing between these two very different ideas in health care: ACCESS and CHOICE. All of this talk about socialized medicine creating less choice within our system and long waiting periods for care makes my head hurt. I can’t help but wonder why so many [...]

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They Bill Us, and We Pay Them

OK call me naive. I thought my healthcare provider was working for me. In all fairness, it usually does, but this past incident reminds me that they do not always.
I recently had a provider’s office call me back for a follow up – some photos. Pretty simple really – they had already done it once. [...]

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Healthcare: the never ending saga

How unclear can things possibly get?? Every direction I turn there is a different discussion, different concern, a new point of interest, new topics, new programs, new ideas, new technology, different ways to use your personal health record, different insurance plans, different reimbursement rates… you get the picture. Trying to understand healthcare is exhausting.
So here [...]

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What would healthcare drive you to do?

I was having a peaceful Tuesday afternoon, happy that it was finally under 100 degrees for the first time in weeks, when my boss sent me and email titled “Fwd: Google Alert – “medical bills”. Well of course I opened it (it’s from my boss), but I had no clue what I was about to [...]

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Learning to Truly Value America’s Youth

Chris Fleming of Health Affairs Blog has highlighted the debate surrounding State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) reauthorization, discontinuities, and enrollment in his blog. Undeniably this is such an important topic. I wrote a research paper this spring on uninsured children and the variations across SCHIP. Unfortunately the discussion is warranted (referencing the first article [...]

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THIS IS NOT A BILL

We’ve all seen it – the EOB (Explanation of Benefit) with the bold lettering that proudly declares THIS IS NOT A BILL. So what is it? We called around to some insurers to find out about it and to see if they had a guide for the high math that they so often employ.
“It’s pretty easy.”
That’s [...]

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If it Were Only That Simple (Part 2 of 2) – Who’s to blame for America’s healthcare problems?

So who’s to blame for America’s healthcare problems? In part 1 or my 2 part series, I had told you the reasons why I feel that individuals and physicians and health practitioner deserve some of the blame for our systems complications.
Note: www.charlesclarknovels.com made a wonderful comment on part 1, highlighting accountability (if you’re interested go [...]

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