A growing number of medical doctors are using computer programs than can immediately access a patient’s health insurance information and let the medical practice know what the patients co-pay rates is. With this information, called ‘real time claims adjudication,’ medical doctors are asking patients to pay those costs at the time of service…a.k.a remember to [...]

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Insurance companies second guessing doctors recommendations, higher overheads, longer waits for insurance reimbursements, higher insurance costs. It all adds up to more doctors leaving the profession. What can we expect in the future? Longer waits, mini clinic boom, more nurse practitioners and a personal doctor will become a symbol of the rich. I see two [...]

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Healthcare crisis hit paradise. If family doctors, internal medicine and primary care providers cannot make a living in Hawaii, we really have a problem in the rust belt. You would think that a market growing so fast like Kona, Doctors would be able to call the shots. Not true the emergency room has become the [...]

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America’s health insurance problems are getting worse. Half the respondents in a survey of primary care physicians (aka the family doctor) said they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative. Why? Because of all the red tape from insurance companies and government agencies. [...]

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