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This bill is too big and complicated, no kidding.  He states we are doing this for a political reason to pass this bill.  He wants to fix what is wrong with the insurance industry.  He says he has more problems with Medicare and Medicaid, but you know I do some billing and those go through very easily, but they dont pay as much as the commercial insurers of course. 

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After just writing my last blog titled, “Nursing Home Sued Over Blood Thinner,” we see another report about deadly medication errors in nursing homes.

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Over the weekend, the New York Times reported on how prestigious academic medical centers advertise cancer care.  Here are some examples,

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This post comes to you by way of Madison, Illinois…but it could happen anywhere.

A recently filed lawsuit claims nurses at Rosewood Care Center (Edwardsville, Ill) - a nursing home licensed by Bravo Care - administered 4 milligrams of Coumadin to a resident, despite the fact that her physician had ordered her prescription to be held because of an elevated PT/INR lab result.

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We have frequently discussed how financial relationships among physicians, other health care professionals, and health care academics, on one hand, and drug, biotechnology, medical device and other health care corporations may have adverse effects on patient care and medical teaching and research.  A first step towards addressing these relationships would be their full disclosure.  Here in the US, Senators Grassley (R-Iowa) and Kohl (D-Wisconsin) have been pushing for a Physician Payments Sunshine Act which would require all such companies to disclose all such payments.  Whether it will become law, as part of health care reform legislation or independently, is now anyone’s guess.

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That is the title of an article which recently appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Top state officials who visited Illinois nursing homes said they were stunned and disappointed by conditions at some facilities, describing grim institutions crowded with surprising numbers of mentally ill residents who wandered aimlessly without proper treatment.

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No wonder nobody knows who insures them, what the contract represents and when the new effective date might be.  Heres the SEC form filed.  Perhaps once all the insurance companies run though all their legal funds in fighting each other, there might be some money in the till to cover claims, you think?   Again, as I have said before, this business would be better represented with non profit companies.  This is all about money and the potential loss of money, not healthcare.  BD 

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As I wrote at Healthcare Renewal here, I recently posted a web petition “Transparency and Openness in Electronic Patient Records and Other Healthcare Information Technology Systems” at http://www.webpetitions.com/cgi-bin/print_petition.cgi?99504454 , calling for an end to Nondisclosure Clauses [of defects, problems, EHR-related adverse events, etc.] in HIT contracts. The petition reads:
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This is a strange story, but from the story here the doctor had committed fraud with insurance billing, had his license revoked and disappeared while on vacation in Greece.  Boy this is a sad fate having to live at the end of a glacier in a tent after having 2 planes, a nice mansion, yachts and more.  Crime doesnt pay or not in this case it appears. 

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My current favorite book about the global financial meltdown, aka great recession, The Sellout, by Charles Gasparino, featured vivid portraits of the bad leadership that lead to the collapse.  For example:

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