December 2011

Don't Forget to Pay the Doctor's Secretary

Patients pay their insurance company to cover medical procedures. The insurance companies make money when the patients are healthy, and the patients don’t pay full value for the medical procedures they do need. Everyone wins. Inadequate Health Insurance Payments Not the doctors. Patients pay and insurance companies reimburse only for procedures provided. Doctors foot the

Paging Dr. Welby, Paging Dr. Welby

Not to date myself, but in the world of 21st century healthcare, Marcus Welby has left the building.  Our healthcare experience has changed over the years, primarily for the better, but it is still changing in ways that many find hard to accept.  Doctors are now providers, and patients have become consumers; medicine is no

Don’t bite off more than you can chew…

FACT – Medicare fraud costs taxpayers roughly $60 billion a year. FACT – The government pays tens of million dollars annually to contractors to detect Medicare fraud. FACT – Whatever the health officials are doing in an attempt to stop Medicare fraud is not enough. Attempts to Stop Medicare Fraud A report, not yet issued