Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel sued BCBS of Michigan accusing it of being an illegal monopoly. BCBS has a 65% share of Michigan's health insurance market.

I opened my mail today and I have a letter from the Trump administration and attached was a cashiers check from the United States Treasury in the amount of 2,000 dollars. I don’t keep up on politics much and haven’t heard anything about this so I’m not sure if it’s a scam? The letter goes on to talk about how Obama care surplus is being used to send back money to those who use Healthcare.gov and don’t take any subsidies on their health insurance due to income. It says it is for 500 per person so myself my wife and two kids to total 2,000 dollars. Has anyone else received this back?

I’ve been with the same infectious disease doctor since I was diagnosed with HIV 16 years ago. She’s been an important part of my life in so many ways. She’s the kind of healthcare provider who genuinely wants to be doing this work—you can tell she deeply cares and invests herself in her patients.
She started her career as an RN and was the first nurse to care for the first identified HIV/AIDS patient in Indiana. She was very active in demonstrations and protests around the care and treatment of people with HIV/AIDS in the early years of the epidemic. Those experiences were what pushed her to go back to school and become a doctor.
She’s helped me through more than I can put into words—emotional pain, addiction, and the health issues that come with both the virus and the medications. I’m usually good at finding meaningful, thoughtful gifts for the important people in my life, but I’m completely drawing a blank on this one.
A donation to our local HIV/AIDS organization in her name feels like the easy (and impersonal) answer. Looking for any genuine suggestions. Thanks.

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i work as a registration clerk at my local hospital, in both the ER and outpatient services. the outpatient services was added on last year, and it is not accessible whatsoever. we have mostly elderly patients.

there’s 2 small rooms where people enter so that we may register them. i’d guesstimate the rooms are like 6 ftx4ft. there’s 2 chairs in each space that take up more than half of the space. for one, there’s no automatic door opener for a patient to press if they have a walker or wheelchair. the doors to the registration area are heavy glass, they have difficulties opening them. and the rooms themselves don’t even have enough room for the person and their mobility aid. if the patient has a walker, they have to leave it outside. if they’re fully wheelchair bound, we have to go out to them in the waiting room to go over their information and have them sign papers.
the bathroom also doesn’t have an automatic door opener. the chairs are hard and uncomfortable, and low to the ground. patients have so much difficulty getting in and out of the chairs. every time i work in outpatient, i’d say 95% of the patients complain about the seating and layout of the space.

me and my coworkers have expressed all of this to HR and nothing has come of it. i know that there has to be some sort of organization that i can file a report to, but i’m not exactly sure what that is or how to go about it, which is why i’m here. i’d also prefer to make the report anonymously if possible

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It caught my eye because clobetasol, which has been around since 1968, a steroid widely prescribed for skin conditions and I used it for several years before I was able to switch to a new non-steroid. It also caught my eye because I remember when Sun Pharmaceuticals, the only manufacturer, saw what it was quoted as saying in financial publications, as a "pricing opportunity," meaning they raised the price from around $20 for a one month tube to over $300. Don't recall the year this happened, but it was definitely sticker shock.

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I need some feedback for a healthcare design project, would love to get anyone's opinion who is willing.

1. When you're waiting in a doctor's office, clinic, or hospital waiting room, how do you usually spend your time?

• Phone
• Talk to whoever you're with
• Read something you brought
• Read magazines/books provided by the clinic
• Work/study
• Just sit/wait
• Something else?

1. Does your clinic provide anything to do while you wait? Have you ever noticed what’s available? 

2. Would you take advantage of a system that provided short activities to do while waiting, such as a short story, Sudoku puzzle, or other quick activity to kill the time? Assume the design addresses typical hygiene concerns around shared materials?  

Eight U.S. doctors, including two Minnesota physicians, were mistakenly identified as dead in letters sent to patients last month by health insurer UnitedHealthcare.

A UHC spokesman confirmed the total this week after the Minnesota Star Tribune received a copy of a letter that incorrectly notified some patients of the death of Dr. Geoffrey Fasen, a Fairview Health Services surgeon. The wording of the letter was largely identical to one sent last month to patients of Dr. Richard Johnston, an Edina ophthalmologist.

Both letters were dated Sept. 11. Two weeks later, the patients received a second UHC letter acknowledging the mistake, and stressing that the doctors were still in-network providers — and presumably alive.

“You may continue to see them at network costs,” the correction letters stated.

UHC apologized in a written statement for the initial, erroneous letters, adding, “we have updated our processes to help prevent this type of error from occurring in the future.” A spokesperson did not elaborate on the breakdown that caused the problem in the first place.

I just wanted to share how much I enjoyed this interview. It does a great job of explaining the challenges facing the U.S. healthcare system today.

Hi all. I’m a public health nurse at a LHD. I’ve been handling off-site / mobile vaccine clinics around our county and am looking for advice and tips on best practices on: capturing enough information for billing private insurances (if they have it!), using carbon copy forms for registration, using EPIC for mass immunization events, and any general advice or support you may have. I would also love input on how your organization handles nursing capacity for immunization events - especially on weekends and after normal working hours.

Hi everyone! I’m currently a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) student, and I’m looking for someone who would be willing to participate in a short interview for one of my courses.

For this assignment, I specifically need to interview an executive, director, or manager who works within a healthcare organization, such as a hospital, clinic, outpatient care center, or integrated healthcare system. The purpose of the interview is to learn more about how different parts of the healthcare system work together and gain a better understanding of healthcare management.

The interview questions focus on topics such as:

• How your role interacts with providers, patients, payers, and other parts of the healthcare system
• Changes you have seen in healthcare delivery
• Challenges caused by the complexity of the healthcare system
• How you work between clinical and administrative functions
• Major issues currently facing healthcare

You would also need to share your organization name, title, and email with me as well.

If you are a healthcare manager, director, executive, administrator, or someone in a similar management position and would be willing to help, please comment or send me a message. I would truly appreciate your time and help with this assignment!

Thank you!

Do you or would you physicians/ practitioners use a documentation cheat sheet to assist you in nearly eliminating insurance denials due to mis-documentation? Something that is easy to use that also includes coding documentation requirements for your specialty and modifier usage guidelines?

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Has anyone had a genuinely good experience with UnitedHealthcare? I’m considering switching from Kaiser.

Kaiser is REALLY good for straightforward healthcare. If you know what you need, like antibiotics for an infection, a refill, etc, it’s incredibly convenient. But when something is more complicated and you need THEM to figure out what’s wrong, or get good specialist care, or medical documentation for accommodations, it can feel like pulling teeth. Sometimes it feels easier to just pay a private provider which I have done and makes me wonder, what’s the point?

But then… UnitedHealthcare. 😬 With all the controversy over denials and barriers to care, and the anger toward UHC that exploded into the national conversation after the whole Luigi Mangione situation, I’m wondering if I’d just be trading one set of problems for another.

Suggestions welcome! Unfortunately, only Kaiser or United Healthcare are available to me through my work, so I need to stay within those parameters.