I couldn’t stop laughing at the title of this article: FPs Opine on Practice Transformation Network Experience Good for them. Let these clueless ivory tower idiots opine while Rome burns. The goal? Responses Will Help Shape Future Projects Read the article if you want but here is the what one person said: “We don’t know…
Ready for some big news? Well, here you go: House and Senate Democrats introduced a measure Thursday that would mandate that insurance companies provide full coverage to patients for over-the-counter birth control. Wow, impressive. On GoodRx.com this costs about $9 a month. DPC docs can get for next to nothing it would cost nothing for the…
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Sometimes my mind wanders. Sometimes I have this internal conversation that acts as a little critic saying such things as “That’s bullsh%t” or “No way, they’re lying” and on and on. This came up recently when I read this article in the Wall St. Journal called No Ride for You? Uber’s Risky Ratings. The gist…
The AMA may be more clueless than I thought, which is scary. Here is their recent position statement: AMA is in favor of CMS’s proposed requirement that payers allow patients to access their health data through application programming interfaces (APIs). However, the association also cautioned that the use of consumer-facing apps could result in patients’ data being…
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Remember to shred ANY piece of information from a patient or you will be personally fined! On the other hand, there is this: Quest Diagnostics Says Up to 12 Million Patients May Have Had Financial, Medical, Personal Information Breached So, to reiterate, doctors are screwed for any HIPAA mistake they make but for these breaches:…
Here is something that will make you want to puke: The venture capital arm of five Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans has partnered with global primary care provider Sanitas USA to open medical centers in Texas as a precursor to a U.S. multi-state rollout. How is this not a conflict of interest? Remember the whole “If you like…