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Our legal system is also corrupt. The worst in the world for destroying companies and lives based on non factual verdicts. Do you all remember the Breast implant fiasco?
J and J is willing to put billions in a fund to compensate supposed "victims" and trial lawyers. The science against J and J is also very weak. The vast majority of people suing J and J aren't victims if they used a product in an unsafe manner and even then, the product didn't contain asbestos. J and J wins most of these cases at huge expense but when they lose it costs billions.
U.S. Court of Appeals Hears Challenge to J&J’s Bankruptcy Plan
A panel of judges will rule on J&J’s tactic that shifted billions of dollars in talc liabilities to a subsidiary, which then filed for bankruptcy.
According to bankruptcy court records, one verdict that covered 22 plaintiffs was worth $2 billion.
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Anyone can make a false claim against J and J with minimal proof they used the product. All they need to do is simply file a claim and pressure J and J to settle.
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I’m no fan of trial lawyers either. Basically I hate everyone 😉
Have you been getting ads for bair hugger lawsuits too like I have been? And I don’t even have a total joint.
Bair Hugger Warming Blanket Lawsuits: Injuries & Settlements
Thousands of people have filed lawsuits after developing infections following surgeries using Bair Hugger warming devices.
Okay that archive link is clutch! Gotta use that in the future!How about insurance companies behaving badly? Privatized Medicare defrauding taxpayers out of billions.
‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions (Published 2022)
By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.www.nytimes.com
This is very common and is a quality measures for us PCPs.How about insurance companies behaving badly? Privatized Medicare defrauding taxpayers out of billions.
‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions (Published 2022)
By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.
A scary prospect, no doubt!
For this year we just have to document every diagnosis the leads to increased Medicare money.
www.nbcnews.com
No that's just laziness most of the time in cleaning up problem lists. My sickest patient only has maybe 8-10 codes that count towards HCC scores. Its the stuff you want on there: cancer, CHF, COPD, diabetes and its complications/status, CKD with stage, amputations/ostomies, significant mental illness (bipolar, schizophrenia, major depression), hyperparathyroid, autoimmune diseases, and other significant illnesses.
Very much so. But as a family doctor its going to be a mix of healthy and sick. An HCC score for primary care averaged across all Medicare patients is supposed to be 1.00. That's nationwide. I'm sitting around 0.96 or so last I checked.
this article from the NYT goes on to bash private insurance companies as the cause of many US healthcare problems...How about insurance companies behaving badly? Privatized Medicare defrauding taxpayers out of billions.
‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions (Published 2022)
By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.
i think CMS is cheap for everyone across the board.. i dont think healthcare could stand on government payments alone.. not saying the private sector is without its problems. but the article is villainizing the entities that are paying, and victimizing the one that are collapsing our practices. if medicare/medicaid was so lucrative you wouldnt see these hospitals closing down, practices folding, etc..
Please remember the EMR is 99% about billing and 1% about record keeping and 0.001% about patient care. Thanks!
I did read it. I get that its about fraud and thats wrong. Check out the comments section. Its the unsaid implication of the article that this is yet another F up of private insurance and as long as we have private insurance these things will happen. And this is the NYT readers opinions, educated informed people, no idea of the actual workings of the medicare for all they are preaching ..
It truly is the worst. I have had the pleasure of finally getting to interface with my healthcare plan this year for a medical issue on one of my kids and it has been beyond infuriating. I even know their stupid lexicon and still can't manage to overcome the mountain of nonsense they erect on their "in-network" providers. I had a phone rep outright like to me, another who didn't know two letter state abbreviations, hours on the phone with these people with essentially no alternative recourse. Just to get more denied claims in the end and it all starts over again. The whole time I'm thinking--what is the point of all this? Why is Dr a in network but Dr b isn't when both are charging the same rate. Why is the deductibe 4x more depending on in or out of network? Why are there so many legions of low level incompetent roadblocks who serve no purpose other than to waste my time?
How about insurance companies behaving badly? Privatized Medicare defrauding taxpayers out of billions.
‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions (Published 2022)
By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.
Each insurance company also has their own made up criteria. I have an ALS patient who struggles to breathe while supine, tried to get him a ventilator but he didn't meet criteria because he didn't have awake hypercapnia or pfts showing severe restriction. Now he has to complete a sleep study to qualify. It sefies comprehension.
The insurance company only has hypercapnia or fvc as qualifying criteria couldn't care less about his mip of 10%
Sad 🙁
