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PPACA-Based Age Rating Pinch Could Leave a Million More Uninsured
http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/13/ppaca-based-age-rating-pinch-could-leave-a-million?utm_source=HCRW&utm_medium=eNL&utm_campaign=LifeHealthPro_eNLs PPACA-Based Age Rating Pinch Could Leave a Million More Uninsured By Allison Bell February 13, 2012 (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) Whatever states do about health insurance prices for older and younger adults, one thing remains certain: it will …
Direct-Pay Medicine: A Free Market Approach to Healthcare Reform
http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/56-health-care/1291-direct-pay-medicine-a-free-market-approach-to-healthcare-reform Having a direct relationship between the physician and patient is the way medicine was meant to be. Doctors are starting to break the confines of insurance programs and the hassles they bring with them. By paying your physician directly, …
Ontario looks to change the rules for those with rare conditions
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/ontario-looks-to-change-the-rules-for-those-with-rare-conditions/article1939555/ Ontario looks to change the rules for those with rare conditions lisa priest From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published Friday, Mar. 11, 2011 8:01PM EST The operation was so risky and rare even the best neurosurgeons in the patient’s …
HHS Unveils Final Design For Insurance Labels – Forgets pricing
Part of the PPACA is that the plan description will come to you in more easy to understand “government language”, see Kathleen Sebelius’ quote below. She talks about “confusing language”. I’ve read the new and improved government version, and it’s …
Debate Over Health Exchange In Virginia May Hit Roadblock
Exchanges? We don’t need no stinkin’ exchanges. Employers will be best served in doing what is fiscally responsible. Health exchanges, or obamacare, exchanges are NOT what is fiscally responsible. Some legislators want to establish obamacare exchanges, because it means “federal …
Prediction: Canadians flock to private health care
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/66237–prediction-canadians-flock-to-private-health-care Canada sees the mounting cost of covering an aging population and admits they cannot afford projected expenses. They are allowing citizens to buy private insurance to cover the crippled government system. Canadians already come to the U.S. to get …
AMA to House Speaker Boehner: Stop ICD-10
http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=31492:ama-to-house-speaker-boehner-stop-icd-10 The AMA currently earns $72 million per year on CPT codes, and that goes away if ICD 10 is implemented. Although I agree that going from 14,193 CPT codes to 140,000 would be a burden, I wonder. To avoid the …
Canadian Skier’s Hospital Bill Puts American Costs in Spotlight
This is indeed a very tragic story. Sadly, the practice of billing out “chargemaster rates” to one group of people to subsidize other contracts which hospitals voluntarily enter in to is discriminatory, and punishes one class of people to help …
Health service delisting coming, Ontario minister says
When government takes the role of regulating our health, they eventually start running out of our money. Then they start to ration. Using control or people’s health to stay in power represents a low point in politics. Many Canadians seeking …
Using Groupon to promote services? Beware legal risks – FiercePracticeManagement
This article is from Fierce Practice Management, and it makes a very interesting point regarding fee splitting, or the anti kick back laws. Fee Splitting is the practice where a medical professional splits their professional fees for a referral. In …
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