Scoop’s Views

Health insurers have been rating physicians and physician practices over the years. In some of those ratings, you find some really bland things, as well as some scores that always incite heated and passionate reaction.

It took physicians — through the American Medical Association (AMA) — quite a few years to get hip to the idea of rating the insurance industry, but the tables have now been turned. The outcome: the expected over-inflated image of health insurers saying the ratings aren’t fair, as well as brutal honesty, it seems, about the timeliness of payments made by the health insurers.

Tags: AMA, American Medical Association, claims, denials, health insurance, insurers, not medically necessary, ratings, Reviews, U&C, usual and customary

Thanksgiving is over, and hopefully you walked away from the table last evening with a full belly. In my home, I know my family and extended family did, but even my dog ate better than some people did last night, or, for that matter, any night of the year. That alone was plenty for us to be thankful for, but there were many other things on our list, just to be clear.

Today, though, while clicking through various emails that have been received over the past few days, as well as the blog posts displaying in RSS that I am catching up on today, I found an interesting Black Friday Tech Freebie, one more thing that can help some have even more reason to be thankful for this weekend.

Tags: Awake In America, BiPAP, Black Friday, Black Friday Tech Freebie, blogs, Camtasia, Camtasia Studio, CPAP, donations, free, Health, health insurance, insurance, iPods, non-profits, nonprofits, PSGs, Sleep, sleep apnea, sleep deprivation, sleep studies, SnagIt, tax-deductible, Techsmith

Thanksgiving is over, and hopefully you walked away from the table last evening with a full belly. In my home, I know my family and extended family did, but even my dog ate better than some people did last night, or, for that matter, any night of the year. That alone was plenty for us to be thankful for, but there were many other things on our list, just to be clear.

Today, though, while clicking through various emails that have been received over the past few days, as well as the blog posts displaying in RSS that I am catching up on today, I found an interesting Black Friday Tech Freebie, one more thing that can help some have even more reason to be thankful for this weekend.

Tags: Awake In America, BiPAP, Black Friday, Black Friday Tech Freebie, blogs, Camtasia, Camtasia Studio, CPAP, donations, free, Health, health insurance, I Started Something, insurance, iPods, Long Zheng, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, non-profits, nonprofits, PSGs, Sleep, sleep apnea, sleep deprivation, sleep studies, SnagIt, speech recognition, tax-deductible, Techsmith, Vista, Windows, Windows Vista

Call your elected officials and get America’s old and disabled protected, giving them an extension on a screwed-up Medicare Part D program. While you have those elected cronies on the phone, be sure to tell them to dump the illegals off at the nearest port for immediate deportation — no benefits, no privileges, no nothing.

Tags: America's disabled population, America's elderly, Health, health care, health coverage, health insurance, Medicare, Medicare drug plan, Part A, Part B, Part D, senior citizens