Here we go again, back to those Ingenix algorithms and business models, getting a rerun of sorts of what occurred in 2011. In 2011 there was one main lawsuit from the AMA along with many others that were filed (some being still settled) over using formulas t…
Continue ReadingWho do you want to make decisions about your healthcare? Physicians are driven to care by financially incentivized with folks who are not involved in direct healthcare. The first video is a contains highlights from this day’s events addressing “Taking Back…
Continue ReadingThis should be ruled trickery as that’s what it really is. When you read the snip from the press release on Neurotrack, this is a “risk assessment” tool and not a diagnosis tool as they would like you to think. This is software and there’ no genomic technol…
Continue ReadingYou may be living under a rock as most of the press is with watching subsidiary actions of big corporations and this one here is huge. Of late some are now brought under the Optum umbrella so they may or may no longer show as separate subsidiaries as they ha…
Continue ReadingHere we go again. If you haven’t figured this out yet, when you buy a Cigna Health insurance policy you get a two for one with 2 insurers. Cigna provides the insurance benefits and then it’s pharmacy benefit manager, PBM OptumRX (biggest revenue sector subs…
Continue ReadingIf you don’t know what a Quant is, take time out and watch video #2 in the footer of this blog as they are not just limited to working at financial firms. As a matter of fact, hedge funds and banks can’t hire enough of the and the same holds true for insurer…
Continue ReadingAlere is a consumer and professional medical diagnostic products maker and Optum will buy Alere Health and all of it’s subsidiaries to add to the army of subsidiaries Optum/United already owns. United Healthcare has been hiding in plain sight for years scoop…
Continue ReadingFortune put it right out in their article on why IBM was purchasing Truven Analytics, for the data. When companies acquire more data we all pretty much may know what goes next, more “big data” scoring and selling with consumer data. I’ve been writing about …
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