Healthcare as a Commodity? Here's a Solution.

B'SD

14 Tishrei, 5774

Spell it as you prefer: Health care, healthcare or *~^%$#@!!!! (add an extra *¡¿₪£€&a;%$!!! if you wish)

Healthcare as a commodity has been a debate and a nerve-wracking reality for some time. PBS/Dr Marcia Angell have remarked on it. So have Seacoast, USNewsandWorld Report, and other venues.

A right, a privilege, whatever you choose to call it, health care has become a competitive activity. 

Well, securing it has, anyway.

The question 

How is Healthcare Different from a Commodity? 

is answered with humor and facts 

at Quarks.

As I proceed with my ICD-10 medical coding studies, classmates and I learn about prohibitive insurance clauses and limitations, far more than I'd already known of or suspected. 

Medical insurance issues are not a patient-friendly environment. 

So I did something to minimize, perhaps solve, the problem.

Need to get out of the downward spiral? 

Find resources you, a child or someone else need for quality 

• Medical care, 
• Medical appliances, 
• Medical transportation, 
• and other medical needs - worldwide - in the informative print or E-book edition of 

Medical and mental health professional recommend it
on and off the cover. 

So does a medical ethicist.

A medical crisis - you'd cry (or curse) too - if it happened to you. 

Use your tissues and handkerchiefs with my blessings borne of experience. GOD gives you Permission to Weep. And you can say that to any critics after explaining that "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To."

Then resolve to solve your problems as best you can.

Oh - here's How to BE CAREFUL when you buy a  drug discount card!

 

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Find the information you, or someone you love, need.

 

Here's HELP for California Medicaid Recipients!

B'SD

21 Sivan 5771


Federal funding for Medicaid in California expires soon.

Families are facing BIG cuts in medically necessary money.

Why?

- Increased co-payments
- New co-payments
- Limitation on visits to a doctors' office
and
- LOWERED payments to those doctors.


If you live in California, or anyplace where you're suffering money problems for medical care, you need to read

Calm down with soothing text that helps you to manage your emotions and lists worldwide resources for lowering your costs! The Global Resources section in the back of the book clues you in to organizations willing to pay for YOUR medication, medical care, medical appliances, medical transportation and more.



Forget the politicians, they've messed up. EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge at http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html


Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

New Yorkers, YOU Can SOLVE the Medicaid Crisis!

B'SD



10 Av 5770


Scared about pending Medicaid cuts and how that can harm your health? Keep reading to find a solution.

This blog keeps pointing out that politicians create medical problems:

New York State budget process
is extremely painful
for taxpayers to witness

From Colorado, Mississippi,
Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey,
New York and Texas the

Elderly & Disabled are Put at Risk
by Cuts in Home Care

and this book can SOLVE them!




You're already ____ upset (fill in the blank with your own expletives, this blog is family-friendly in more ways than one) with the bad news.

Now buy a book to get that scowl off your face. You'll look, feel and BE better after you read calming, cost-cutting It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge after you click on http://www.booklocker.com/books/4244.html to buy it.



EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge no matter where on earth you live!!! The iPhone-friendly E-book has a GLOBAL Resources section that clues you in about free and low-cost medical care options.

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Is it Health Care "Reform" or Health Care "Neglect"?

B'SD

4 Elul 5769


Why aren't black breast cancer patients over age 65 faring well if they're on Medicare?

Why is the America Dental Association disappointed with alleged health care reform efforts? How much would those efforts fail to help Medicaid recipients and to provide preventative care to the wider population?

Read these interesting and troubling headlines in the medical world today:

Hospital Might Explain Cancer Outcome Disparities

ADA: No Smiles for Health Reform Bills

Hoping that my book and blog will lead you to solutions ;^ )

Stand by for publication news.

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Announcing the Reimbursement Wiki

B'SD

16 Sivan 5769


One of the nightmares of medical problems is financial. You - and your medical team - struggle to figure out how to be reimbursed for medical care. The figures add up over time and BIG debts develop.

Here's some good news for American citizens: One of my LinkedIn colleagues (LinkedIn is a sort of Facebook for business professionals) has created a partial solution for the problem:

Announcing the

Reimbursement Wiki

I am announcing the public availability of my Reimbursement Wiki. I have compiled links to coding, coverage, and payment information, as well as information such as the following:

- Medicare (URLs for rules, topics such as surgeries, compounding, CED, MS-DRGs, DME, inpatient list, laboratory and diagnostic testing, etc.)

- Managed Care (URLs for medical/coverage policy sites at various payers, technology assessment organizations, literature on coverage decision making, etc.)

- Medicaid (URLs for CPT/HCPCS code lookup by state for payment info, state fee schedules, drug product data, etc.)

- Payment (URLs for Medicare payment basics, top 200 CPT/HCPCS codes, top 100 lab procedures, literature on drug pricing, etc.)

There is plenty more -

basically reimbursement

and health resources

I have collected in one place

for reference purposes.

The URL is http://reimbursement.atwiki.com/

The Reimbursement Wiki is an ongoing project of mine, and I add material based on topics of current work, so not all topics are represented equally. Nevertheless, I find it an invaluable resource, and I hope you do, too.

Access to the Reimbursement Wiki is free. The only requirement is to open an www.atwiki.com account. E-mail me your username so I can send you an invitation.

My E-address is scott@argentaadvisors.com.

Or you can contact me via LinkedIn.

OK, class, you now have a terrific tool for being able to better afford expensive medical care. Do your homework. Ask compassionate, detail-oriented friends/family help you to recover monies you deserve according to US law.

I've been on both sides of the hospital bed and I know, reimbursement procedures are tedious, confusing and one great way to zap your sense of humor.

Treat yourself to an emotional recovery.

Buy a copy of "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge" today.

Recharge your smile and sense of a better future. Medical and mental health professionals use the book for this purpose, too.


To your success,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life