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It comes from hospital and other types of consolidation deriving more revenue from owning the facilities etc. Industry consolidation makes it possible for hospital groups to jack up prices.Quote:
Originally Posted by summit
Billing rules allow hospitals to buy out physician offices and then charge double for the same services—just because they own the office too. Provider prices are the main driving force behind America's costly healthcare system:
"Policies like site-based payments created an incentive for hospital systems to acquire freestanding physician offices where they could immediately begin receiving higher reimbursements by simply labeling an off-campus facility as a hospital outpatient department (HOPD) without changing the care patients receive."
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"Providers are winning 75 percent of disputes in the new arbitration process for payment disagreements and receive payments three times the median in-network rates."
More here: https://www.niskanencenter.org/healt...thcare-supply/
More daring less rent seeking rich people? I want a jet ski that's also a jet fighter. Guess we've got different ideas about cool shit.
Geez, I hope I don't ever see those tools show up at my company. Thankfully I work for an Asian company and generally speaking, they don't seem to get sucked into all the usual nonsense quite like corporate America tends to. It's actually been quite a breath of fresh air, I gotta say.Quote:
Originally Posted by dunfree
why do you want a miniature ekranoplane?Quote:
Originally Posted by RTsucks
It's all in the name. Beautiful.
Now I really want a minekranoplan.Quote:
Originally Posted by RTsucks
Heilminenkranoplane
So if an ekranoplan is on a river that flows at the exact opposite speed as it…
https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/
AI tool that generates your appeal when insurance authorization denied.
Welp, what's good for the goose is good for the gander! Gotta fight fire with fire. Watch the AI-using health insurance dweebs be like "HeY! ThaT'S Not faiR! TheY can'T do THAT!"Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
Might you not be a little cautious (if not paranoid) about putting your info into yet another 3rd party database? I guess you could try and read their privacy policy very carefully, for whatever that's worth.Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
On another front Nancy Pelosi went to Germany to get her hip replacement. Doesn't that tell yo everything you need to know about the US healthcare system?
Yup. A pretty good hint is that, just a month ago, a narrow majority of Americans (no doubt including many who celebrate Luigi and what he stands for) voted for a man and his cabal that will work to give United Healthcare greater latitude for denying claims, while also steering people who would otherwise escape their clutches at age 65 back to being at their mercy via Medicare "Advantage" plans (which will suck even worse when they're no longer competing against actual Medicare).Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevo
And they voted for even more an even more rapacious corporate health insurance because... oh, look over here, price of eggs, it's what Real Americans in diners are talking about! But for the moment, they're going to get some whining about health insurance denying claims off their chest, before getting back to their stronger concerns about transgenders in youth sports.
LOL the red hatter fox news addict up the street was one of those complaining about the price of eggs and just last week a brand new $15,000 enclosed snowmachine trailer showed up in his driveway.
While that could very well be true, it's not like our absolute mess of a healthcare system has improved in any meaningful way over the last 4 years either. I know this crowd hates this argument, but when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry, the health insurance industry, and every layer in-between, it is VERY much a "both sides" problem, with lobbyists throwing all sorts of $$$ at both parties on all levels.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobz
Additionally, I've seen some recent estimates that administrative costs alone can account for up to 40% of hospital expenses. I know healthcare's a seriously complex subject, but THAT needs to be dealt with in a very serious way. It's insane what we put up with in this country. It's something everybody seems to acknowledge at least, with many trying to help address, but has literally only made things much, much worse.
Remember when the ACA was intended to streamline administrative processes? Credit where credit's due, it was a good intention, but here we are. Worse than ever before on that front.
Of course. It’s always the assholes with thousands of dollars of lawn decorations, driving around in 5mpg campers or XXL pickups who complain the loudest about Bidenomics. Fuck em. Maybe he’ll get polio.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
Any analysis needs to contend with the fact that Dems only had 50 senators, two of which were Manchin and Senima who have left the party. Need 60 to get past a filibuster on most bills.Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
Medicare being able to negotiate drug prices is a big deal, and is just getting going. He did also significantly expand Medicaid coverage, though that’s likely to get rolled back some.
I am confident Woody, and Pete, and Bob would all agree, that's on point, and pretty damn good to boot!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cisco Kid
This? Jesus F'N Christ!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o...-mangione.html
Wow! Wowee Wow Wow Wow!!
As ^^^ reminds us...
...a critical fact about that 6% is that UnitedHealthcare is the insurer, while UnitedHealthgroup is their more profitable parent. The parent gets the profits from the insurer, but more importantly, also from all the insurer's sister companies.Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
The sisters exist to soak up revenue from the insurer, who contracts "services" from them (like claim rejections) so the insurer can expense some revenue and keep their margins below ACA limits. Sisters hire "doctors" (like the ones Luigi got pissed at, not actual providers of patient services) to reject claims and rubber stamp nonsensical letters about it.
But not to worry, the parent's CEO is going to hire some AI bots to help make sure you can understand why you should spend your last days with your family instead of killing CEOs.
I don't respond to most of your provocations, but I made quite a few trips to Chile, including working with people who had had to flee Pinochet's military government and spent years in exile. Allende was unlike the others you name (except Mossadegh) - Allende was a democratically elected president who happened to be a socialist, not a revolutionary, and was murdered by his own country's armed forces in a coup. You should back off dancing on his grave and shut the hell up about things of which you only have a shallow understanding. If you want to discuss that bored rich kids murdering CEOs on the street is bad, armies staging coups against elected presidents is REALLY REALLY BAD. Even if it were certain US presidents I don't like, it would be really super awful bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by MultiVerse
American culture of debt/spending on material possessions certainly is a bipartisan phenomenon. Anyone with eyes can see that.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
Right, that's why Political murder is bad. How is that not obvious? Allende, who committed suicide and was not murdered, and like Hugo Chavez was elected—but after his narrow victory joined forces with more radical communists and ruled like a dictator. Including engaging in political violence. Allenda's actions caused a constitutional crisis culminating in the Pinochet coup and all the horrors that ensued. Neither Allende nor Pinochet were liberal democrats.Quote:
Originally Posted by coldfeet
The point being, there is no way to normalize violence against the type of people you don't like without also, effectively, normalizing violence against everybody else. Violent psychopathy justified by class violence, led by wealthy Marxists, leads to even greater acts of violence, in turn triggering calls for even more violence. Marxists have reshaped Allende's legacy as a folk hero and a democrat. He was neither. Pinochet was a disgusting Fascist and Allende was a brutal Cuban-style communist
Term Limits a novel by Vince Flynn proceeds along these lines nicely with politicians and others thrown in the mix. It may have been made into a movie too.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Call me a reasoned sadist but I'd rather see heads of rapey corporations gunned down than kids at school