Covered California Insurance Participants to be Risk Assessed With Individual Scores To Be Sent to CMS By Anthem–Appears To Be No Opt Out For Privacy, Payback Time For the ACA Subsidies As Feds Get Your Scored Data Covered California Insurance Participants to be Risk Assessed With Individual Scores To Be Sent to CMS By Anthem–Appears To Be No Opt Out For Privacy, Payback Time For the ACA Subsidies As Feds Get Your Scored Data

When you read this article entirely, it’s like what in the heck is this now?  Seriously read the analytics that will be taking place and the...

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Monday, June 29, 2015

Hospital News Rigging Now? UPMC and Local Paper In a Dispute Over What’s Covered in the News, Takes Paper Out of Hospital Gift Shops… Hospital News Rigging Now? UPMC and Local Paper In a Dispute Over What’s Covered in the News, Takes Paper Out of Hospital Gift Shops…

Here we go again, and advertising from the Pittsburgh newspaper has also been cut, but the article states that has gone on for a few years w...

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Sunday, June 28, 2015

Operation “Perception-Deception” Into Full Swing in the US, With Killer Algorithms, Algo Fairies, Algo Duping, The Grays, and Of Course, Flags As Consumers Confuse Virtual World Values With the Real World… Operation “Perception-Deception” Into Full Swing in the US, With Killer Algorithms, Algo Fairies, Algo Duping, The Grays, and Of Course, Flags As Consumers Confuse Virtual World Values With the Real World…

What a week it has been so far as well as last week as well.  It is worrisome as to what the American Public perceives today as a “real” val...

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Medication Adherence Predictions Enter the World of Quantitated Justifications For Things That Are Just Not True, Members of the Proprietary “Code Hosing” Clubs Out There Destroying Your Privacy Medication Adherence Predictions Enter the World of Quantitated Justifications For Things That Are Just Not True, Members of the Proprietary “Code Hosing” Clubs Out There Destroying Your Privacy

This is just taking this a little too far and we know when you let Quants go wild, they will go, and go and go and quantitate and create spu...

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Monday, June 22, 2015

CMS Chasing Wild Virtual Horses-A Big Distraction on the Hope of Finding Some “Algo Fairies” By Giving Entrepreneurs Access to Medicare Claims and Other Data…Marketing & Astro Turfing “The Sebelius Syndrome”.. CMS Chasing Wild Virtual Horses-A Big Distraction on the Hope of Finding Some “Algo Fairies” By Giving Entrepreneurs Access to Medicare Claims and Other Data…Marketing & Astro Turfing “The Sebelius Syndrome”..

One thing I think that can safely be said is Andy Slavitt, a one time Goldman Sachs banker and United Healthcare Subsidiary CEO of Ingenix w...

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

CVS Buys Independent Pharmacy, Picks Up A Slew of 7000 Ready Made Prescription Customers With Data To Mine and Sell… CVS Buys Independent Pharmacy, Picks Up A Slew of 7000 Ready Made Prescription Customers With Data To Mine and Sell…

For the independent pharmacy, generic drug costs have gone up  as high as 30 percent and the pharmacy cannot price match big chain drug stor...

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Sunday, June 14, 2015

For Profit Hospitals Like Stock Buy Backs Too–HCA Buying Back $7.7 Billion Worth of Shares Over 3 Years… For Profit Hospitals Like Stock Buy Backs Too–HCA Buying Back $7.7 Billion Worth of Shares Over 3 Years…

I talk a bit about stock buy backs, why?  Because as a consumer or a patient, we pay for them.  Insurance companies, all the majors on the S...

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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Virtual World Values and The Real World, We Have A Big Problem: People Can’t Tell the Difference Anymore as Perceptual Madness Grows to Further Accelerate Inequality… Virtual World Values and The Real World, We Have A Big Problem: People Can’t Tell the Difference Anymore as Perceptual Madness Grows to Further Accelerate Inequality…

This is a republished blog post from March of 2014 and someone asked me to run it again, so here it is with a couple updates in the body and...

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Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Walgreens, No Time For Charity, Moves Truckloads of Closed Store Inventory to Landfill, Mayor of Wyoming Town Upset As New Products Perfectly Usable Were Trashed Walgreens, No Time For Charity, Moves Truckloads of Closed Store Inventory to Landfill, Mayor of Wyoming Town Upset As New Products Perfectly Usable Were Trashed

We all know how big business has to focus on stock buy backs, acquisitions, etc. today so donating perfectly good products that have been in...

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Saturday, June 06, 2015

Communities and Cities Rebelling Against Chosen Locations of New CVS Stores Across the US… Communities and Cities Rebelling Against Chosen Locations of New CVS Stores Across the US…

I read one article and of course this is something that always occurs with new zoning and changing the landscape in the US, but darn there ...

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Saturday, June 06, 2015

With Humana Up For Sale, What’s the Impact of the Medicare Risk Assessment Re-Run for Said Medicare Fraud? It’s a Big Potential Monetary Exposure For Humana and Other Insurers… With Humana Up For Sale, What’s the Impact of the Medicare Risk Assessment Re-Run for Said Medicare Fraud? It’s a Big Potential Monetary Exposure For Humana and Other Insurers…

If you are not aware of the Medicare Advantage Re-Run of the Risk Assessment model, I’ll give you a link where you can read up.  At risk wou...

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Thursday, June 04, 2015
 
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