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Frederic Goldstein Posted September 6, 2007
Innovative Medical Financing Options will Continue to Grow Even Beyond Elective Procedures
Analysis of: Doctors Offering No-Interest Loans to Patients | www.nytimes.com
Author: Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc.
High Deductible Plans, growing medical costs, and an aging population will all contribute to the need for financing options.  This trend will expand beyond elective procedures.  Financing of elective procedures is also nothing new, in fact it was done in the late 80's by a Hospital Corporation...
Posted September 5, 2007
Patient Heal Thyself
Analysis of: Doctors Offering No-Interest Loans to Patients | www.nytimes.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
I agree with the esteemed Dr. Den.  Most physicians went into practice to help mankind and for the lifelong intellectual stimulation.  It is a sorry state that patients may not be able to pay fair medical expenses and may have to one day heal themselves.   However,it is becomeing...
Posted September 5, 2007
It's better to be paid something than nothing
Analysis of: Doctors Offering No-Interest Loans to Patients | www.nytimes.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Financing of health care by physicians is a relatively new phenomenon.   While this practice is most aggressively being used in the arena of non-covered services (plastic surgery, Lasik, etc), it has some relevance to general medicine as well. In the covered services arena, it's pretty simple...
Posted September 4, 2007
Medicine or banking- what will you practice?
Analysis of: Doctors Offering No-Interest Loans to Patients | www.nytimes.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Medicine has come far afield from the days when the Hippocratic Oath may have meant something. If you wish to practice medicine do so. Cheeypicking your "clients" is business and should be called that.
Robert Forster Posted September 4, 2007
Physicians will have to look in the mirror to solve America's medical cost inflation
Analysis of: Health Insurers Mull Costs, Future of Medicare | www.thestreet.com
Author: Robert Forster, Healthcare Consultant Robert Forster, MD
I disagree with Dr. Horvitz's assertions regarding rising cost of health care being the government and health plans.  These costs are but a drop of water compared to the actual unit cost of services and the # of services being delivered to Americans.  Health plan + governmental costs are in...
Posted September 3, 2007
The Missing Links from Michael Moore's Magic Pills for Health Care
Analysis of: Michael Moore's Health Care Proposal | www.michaelmoore.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
If you have not seen the movie SiCKO and are reading this you need to get out and see it this week. Michael Moore’s latest documentary SiCKO has behind it an aggressive prescription for reforming the US healthcare system. Moore’s film brings the healthcare industries’ failings under his microscope....
Frederic Goldstein Posted September 3, 2007
Know what is in your Medical Record or You May Pay or Be Uninsurable
Analysis of: Patient Records Need Reviews | online.wsj.com
Author: Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc.
The system for filing claims and keeping track of ones medical record provides ample opportunity for errors. As this story points out mistakes can be made in the billing or documentation of services and results.  These errors can end up costing the person when they seek insurance.
Posted September 3, 2007
Health Insurers lighting a fuse on their own destruction
Analysis of: Health Insurers Mull Costs, Future of Medicare | www.thestreet.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Healthcare costs are not sustainable in todays market. The solution is not more government or insurance industry management, which caused the problem in the first place. Present day access to healthcare is leveraged and is being setup for a big fall and government takeover which would be terrible for...
Posted September 3, 2007
Impact of new Medicare Regulations on reduction of hospital infections and medical errors
Analysis of: New Medicare Regulations Adopted To Reduce Certain Hospital Infections And Medical Errors | www.medicalnewstoday.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
1. Hospitals will be better able to work with their medical staffs on "putting teeth" into infection control and other important committees- not unlike the impetus to manage inpatient days that resulted from DRG payment in the 80's 2. After all the cacophony of complaints about how to define nosocomial...
Glen McDaniel Posted August 31, 2007
Concierge medicine raises many questions
Analysis of: MDs offer new services, for $3,600 yearly fee | www.boston.com
Author: Glen McDaniel, President and Chief Executive Officer GM Global
It is important to look closely at the new niche called Concierge Medicine. It is obviously created out of  a special need and will prove lucrative for physicians who choose to go that route. But there are larger questions of access and ethics of exclusivity/ One has to consider whether this...
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