The California Department of Managed Health Care found ninety person ( 36 out of 40) healthplan/insurance company department compliance reports for 2015 contained data inaccuracies significant enough to render them essentially usable and certainly not consumer friendly. This story originally appeared in California Healthfax and then reported on in HealthLeaders. From HealthLeaders . A state… Read More
Another company is entering the physician direct to patient or “housecall” market in California. It is surprising how much money is being thrown at this and how unfortunately, the business model is still not sorted out. Excerpts from the MSN article include California-based Heal is betting that housecalls can not just make you healthier, but… Read More
From October 2016 North Bay Business Journal Medicare began releasing records of reimbursements to doctors in 2013. That data revealed some numbers made doctors appear as they were making a lot of money when really the cost was pharmaceutical costs as the the data added those costs into the physician compensation. In 2012, 151 out… Read More
Average physicians salaries by a group called MDSearch Specialty Average Salary by Specialty 2016 Allergy/Immunology 334,889.00 Anesthesiology 456,141.60 Cardiology Invasive 505,168.00 Cardiology Noninvasive 486,900.40 Dermatology 492,978.80 Emergency Medicine 343,276.00 Endocrinology 246,712.60 Family Medicine 238,147.40 Gastroenterology 500,044.20 Hematology/Oncology 457,796.80 Hospitalist 268,383.00 Internal Medicine 253,263.80 Nephrology 356,092.00 Neurology 286,157.60 OB/GYN 339,029.80 Occupational Medicine 233,461.20 Oncology 481,116.60… Read More
It is crazy the amount of money that attorneys are paid. Where as in medicine even the highest paid emergency physicians are paid only a fraction of that amount. How can people complain how much physicians earn when they look at attorneys, actors, and athletes. Raising rates ensures that law firms keep up with the competition… Read More
This is another article that talks about the ridiculous amount of time that is consumed with documenting on electronic medical records. This study from the February 2016 Journal of Graduate Medical Education reports that interns spend 41 minutes per patient working on medical records. As the interns and residents learn the system this time drops to 30 minutes… Read More
