Everyone has made an outline for a project; the completed product may have been a porch or a term paper…
An insurance company touts its ability to negotiate discounts from the posted price of a medical product. The charge master…
In August 2014 I shared my thoughts about healthcare reform as seen through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,…
Healthcare use and expenses are not controlled by the usual pesky supply and demand curves. If supply rises, price goes…
Commercial insurance companies make a profit for their shareholders. State insurance commissioners set an allowable rate of return, that is…
Third party insurers paid each of these practitioners or facilities. They do not have enough personnel to look at time-of-day…
Recently when I registered at a hospital for an outpatient study, the clerk pushed a single page through her window…
When the surgeon dictated at 4:21 p.m. his document titled “history and physical,” he decided he wanted an imaging study.…
In 2007, several years prior to the events at AMC described here and here, I experienced another incident, different in…
These events occurred at a prominent tertiary care, university teaching hospital (AMC). For the purpose of this story, it will…
These events occurred at a prominent tertiary care, university teaching hospital (AMC). For the purpose of this story, it will…
As a student my mentors emphasized the importance of medical records I would create during my career. “That document refreshes…
During high school, college and medical school I took many exams. The tests were of two general formats, quantitative or…