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At this point, we all know what’s going on. In Massachusetts, the populace voted in a Republican to fill the seat of Senator Kennedy, and that effectively ended the Democratic block that could force a health care bill upon the masses without Republican support.
I think everyone pretty much knew at [...]
On Tuesday night in Massachusetts the Democrats got a rude awakening for their arrogance in thinking that the election of another Democratic senator was a given and lost a seat in the Senate that they hadn’t been expecting to lose. That now means that they don’t have the numbers to [...]
A couple of days ago, I presented for the first hour of a meeting for the Mid York Medical Accounts Management Association, of which I’m a board member and 2-time president. Once I was finished, our second presenter, from the New York State Insurance Department, and was going to talk [...]
Two weeks ago, I had to “pull rank’ on someone who was working in a physician’s billing office. This one person kept calling my mother and telling her that she had to contact an insurance carrier on the physician’s behalf because the insurance carrier was incorrectly paying on my mother’s [...]
As some of you know, I have a second health care site called Medical Billing Answers. It was set up to give basic information on things that have to do with medical billing and the revenue cycle process.
When I first set it up, I began a process where I would [...]
Strange as it sounds, it seems that there’s a difference in outcome for visitors to the emergency room based on whether a person has insurance or not. A study by Harvard University showed that uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice [...]
I had lunch today with another health care consulting friend of mine, George Chapman. I also do work on his website, and he participated in my interview series.
We started talking about health care coverage for the uninsured, and I was mentioning my idea of a health care plan to him. [...]
In my last post on maintaining one’s dignity, I talked about a guy on LinkedIn who was basically ready to give his services away for the almighty dollar, and how by doing that he was going to hurt everyone else in the industry.
The truth of the matter is that [...]
Back in June, there was a poll that came out saying the majority of people in this country wanted universal health care coverage, and they were willing to pay for it. As a matter of fact, the number wasn’t even close; 85% favored it.
So, I’m wondering just what’s happened in [...]
As we start the day, we’re dealing with many terms that may not quite make sense from the weekend regarding health care. I thought I’d quickly define these terms so that we can look at what’s being said overall with a little bit more of an idea of what [...]