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Last week I read a story that mentioned a study that came to this conclusion: Only 14% Of Medical Errors Reported By Hospitals. It’s an alarming story, one that undoubtedly is true, but it’s the kind of story that leads to hysteria instead of understanding. Overall, the question comes down to what constitutes an error. [...]
When President Obama was running for the office of president, one of the things he kept talking about was the need for electronic medical records (EMR). When he was trying to push the health care bill, one of the things he kept talking about was electronic medical records. Obviously he wanted this to occur, and [...]
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 account. The major problem, however, [...]
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 as likely to die in [...]
A couple of days ago I wrote a post where I talked about my friend George Chapman and his unique idea, which I still think is a pretty good idea, on a health care plan. We talked about a lot of things, and one thing in particular came up. I was saying to him how [...]
The general public is now starting to hear about something that the healthcare community has been freaking out about for awhile now. We use the term “RAC Audits”; to the uninitiated, that stands for “recovery audit contractors“. Their basic purpose is to go into hospitals and other types of healthcare facilities and determine if Medicare [...]
