About a month ago, I went to the store up the street to pick up a prescription medication for my diabetes. The clerk behind the counter told me I owed close to $50; I was stunned. I told her that my medications are supposed to be free, which they are. She checked on it and […]
I came upon a post on a blog called The Consumer Healthcare Blog titled 10 Ways To Fix Healthcare, a list culled from 10 experts, though I’m not sure who they are. I wrote a message on the post, then I decided I wanted to think about it some more afterwards. There’s always this talk […]
Tonight I met Allan DeKaye, one of the people who participated in my interview series. We’d talked on the phone before, but never met, mainly because he lives on Long Island, where I haven’t been in over 20 years, and I live here in the Syracuse area. I always enjoy meeting and having time to […]
Sometimes it takes a hammer to make someone do the right thing, and unfortunately, if you ask me, that’s the wrong reason. In this case, I’m talking about Walmart and its reversal of what was initially a bad decision in trying to take back money it paid for a woman’s health care. The quick detail […]
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 […]
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