Comments on: Health Care 2.0 - Google Health http://blog.compaholics.com/2008/05/20/health-care-20-google-health/ Tech News For The Masses Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:51:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Compaholic http://blog.compaholics.com/2008/05/20/health-care-20-google-health/#comment-239 Compaholic Tue, 20 May 2008 23:35:46 +0000 http://blog.compaholics.com/?p=161#comment-239 Point taken! Now you get a cookie :) Point taken! Now you get a cookie :)

]]> By: Hope http://blog.compaholics.com/2008/05/20/health-care-20-google-health/#comment-238 Hope Tue, 20 May 2008 23:34:42 +0000 http://blog.compaholics.com/?p=161#comment-238 I meant no meaness towards the blogger..I actually love him..hes my favorite blogger. I simply meant to point out why I think the health care system is out of control. I wanted to point the finger at the ins. company and share some examples are insane issues I come across on a daily bases. I meant no meaness towards the blogger..I actually love him..hes my favorite blogger.

I simply meant to point out why I think the health care system is out of control. I wanted to point the finger at the ins. company and share some examples are insane issues I come across on a daily bases.

]]> By: Hope http://blog.compaholics.com/2008/05/20/health-care-20-google-health/#comment-237 Hope Tue, 20 May 2008 23:25:47 +0000 http://blog.compaholics.com/?p=161#comment-237 First off mister blogger man I work in the health care system and I just want to go on record saying its not the hospital's fault that healthcare is out of control. That ins. company that you pay your hard earned money to, well they tell the physician/provider WHAT they can do to YOU, WHEN they can do it, HOW and WHERE they can do it. They have contracts that rip the healthcare provider off. Everyday money is written off, just goes away because the insurance co. thinks that 'oh we don't think that was medically necessary to be done' oh sure we appeal that decision. Hows this for sad, I had an insuance company deny a guy's claim states its not a covered service because there was no proof of improvement. That pt. he had throat cancer and his doctor brought him in for pegtube placement aka a FEEDING TUBE. YEA they refused to pay for this guys only method of nurishment.and yup it became his responsibility!! Now this guy is fighting for his life and gets a bill for like $8,000, then the other day I get a claim that the SAME insurance co. denied a simple X-ray.. a payment of around 100 bucks stating that because it wasnt proven they would not cover and pay this, so we write this charge off. The kid fell from a tree and the doctor ordered an X-ray!! an X-ray WHY because he MIGHT have broken his arm, but because it wasn't broke we eat the bill. So what we turn people away, suggest they go outside MAKE sure your arm is broke because otherwise we're not X-raying you to make sure? soo all I wanna go on record saying is LOOK TO YOUR INS. CO. for the problems. When your facility/hospital/doctor office has to eat all these charges guess what happens???? Just like at the pump yup your prices too go up. It's an ugly cycle but I work these claims all day long and have been doing so for 7 years and trust me it's not getting any better. First off mister blogger man I work in the health care system and I just want to go on record saying its not the hospital’s fault that healthcare is out of control. That ins. company that you pay your hard earned money to, well they tell the physician/provider WHAT they can do to YOU, WHEN they can do it, HOW and WHERE they can do it. They have contracts that rip the healthcare provider off. Everyday money is written off, just goes away because the insurance co. thinks that ‘oh we don’t think that was medically necessary to be done’ oh sure we appeal that decision. Hows this for sad, I had an insuance company deny a guy’s claim states its not a covered service because there was no proof of improvement. That pt. he had throat cancer and his doctor brought him in for pegtube placement aka a FEEDING TUBE. YEA they refused to pay for this guys only method of nurishment.and yup it became his responsibility!! Now this guy is fighting for his life and gets a bill for like $8,000, then the other day I get a claim that the SAME insurance co. denied a simple X-ray.. a payment of around 100 bucks stating that because it wasnt proven they would not cover and pay this, so we write this charge off. The kid fell from a tree and the doctor ordered an X-ray!! an X-ray WHY because he MIGHT have broken his arm, but because it wasn’t broke we eat the bill. So what we turn people away, suggest they go outside MAKE sure your arm is broke because otherwise we’re not X-raying you to make sure? soo all I wanna go on record saying is LOOK TO YOUR INS. CO. for the problems. When your facility/hospital/doctor office has to eat all these charges guess what happens???? Just like at the pump yup your prices too go up. It’s an ugly cycle but I work these claims all day long and have been doing so for 7 years and trust me it’s not getting any better.

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