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Half or Better of the Accountable Act Call Center Jobs Will Be Part Time With No Benefits in Contra Costa County, California This pertains to one of the call centers and ironically these people get no benefits and might just have to fork out and pay for insurance t...
UnitedHealthcare Expands Their Cheap Hearings Aids Subsidiary With Marketing To Add More Profits To the Corporate Bottom Line and Sell More Devices And Policies –Subsidiary Watch If you read here often enough then you know United has more subsidiaries than Carter has pills as the old saying goes. I do these posts so ...
Doctor Gets Prison Sentence For His Medical CPT Coding Interpretations, Even Though Jury Found Him Innocent–Under Charged Himself This is an interesting story and probably won’t be the last and you can read all of it from the link at the bottom here. It’s a bit complex...
UnitedHealthcare Making Bigger ACO Payments in the Future? Guess They Would Be When Either Attaining Ownership or 51% Controlling Interest in 130 Surgical Center Physicians With Beach Surgical Holdings, Another Subsidiary When I look at the news of late of course payments would grow and represent a larger dollar amount as United and their “Tiered” subsidiar...
TSA Joins the MoneyBall Scene, Collecting Your Personal Data For a Price With Express Scanning Services, But They Can Continue to Smell My Stinking Feet…Guess NSA Won’t Share Oh is everyone not trying to figure out how to make a buck! It’s not bad enough that we have a data selling epidemic in place with raising ...
States Reviewing Selling De-Identified Medical Record Procedures–The Data Selling Epidemic This is a good article that they are now reviewing what they are selling which does NOT fall under HIPAA . Recently data analytics and re-m...
Who’s Going To Verify Income With Insurance Exchanges, HHS Gives Contract to Equifax To Do So and CMS Says the IRS Will Do It Via the Hub, But When..Contingencies Maybe? I have tweeted this a couple of times but when you read news about both it does make one wonder…who’s going to do the verification work. I ...
Small Business California Insurance Exchange Option Went From a Choice of One to a Choice of Zero as WellPoint Pulls Out–Stay Tuned As More Develops Nationally Blue Cross/Blue Shield was the one national choice that was to be available on all exchanges but it seems we have a change of pl...
Health Insurance Company, Medical Mutual of Ohio Pulls Out of South Carolina, United Healthcare Picks Up the Insured Policy Holders Well United scores once again with more business and they won’t have to go to court and sue anyone this time. In 2007 the Medical Mutual p...
Community Health Systems Gets Hit With Another DOJ Subpoena Amidst 57% Drop in Income–Still A Suitor For HMA? Just a few days ago it was out in the news at Bloomberg that Community Health System was a potential suitor for buying up Community Health S...
Senate Finance Committee Hearings on EHR Incentives Make a “Huge” Case for Restoring the Office of Technology Assessment for Congress–They Need a Bigger Brain I had a little time to listen in and watch the video and again all I can say is we go way back to square one again, same questions , same ev...
Hospital Denied Access to Electronic Medical Records Over Billing Dispute With Vendor Since 2008 the hospital has paid $3,083,607.64 and the system has never been fully functional and the hospital claims it was not HIPAA compl...
United Healthcare Files Lawsuit Against the City of Birmingham Disputing Contract Award To Blue Cross This is not the first time the company has filed a lawsuit as the most publicized was the Tri-Care contract in which the company sued the De...
One Pioneer ACO Saved Money Using Software From AMA Subsidiary Who Provides Software From a United Healthcare Subsidiary It’s what I keep saying, the actions takes place with subsidiaries today in healthcare and lot with insurers. United popped in and bought H...
The Privacy Report, License Plate Data for Profit–Privacy Exploitations, The Next Frontier? First off, I have no problem with police agencies using monitors in their cars as this is what it was designed for but what we have here is ...
VA Launches CareGiver Pilot Program, Giving 1000 iPads to Families of Veterans–IT Infrastructure Innovation Work In Progress This looks interesting and is obviously developed to provide better care and of course information. The big question with using a pilot is ...
