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Student Success Story
Who Benefits from Billing in Healthcare?
Ban on HMO Billing Practice
A Home-Based Business You Can't Ignore!
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Student Success Story
Pam McLaughlin
Financial Watchdog, LLC
 
I was without a job for the second time in a 10 year time span, due to no fault of my own, and I vowed to never again be someone else's employee.   I had worked in the corporate world for years in various accounting positions and after that in Governmental Accounting. 

Having an accounting background and being a Fraud Examiner, naturally bookkeeping and fraud prevention was the logical way to go, I thought, so I did.  I just really wasn't satisfied with this, however.  I live in a small town and the competition was stiff in the private accounting area.
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Who Benefits from Billing in Healthcare?
Have you ever been a patient? If so, you know how incredibly complex, user-unfriendly and inefficient the whole billing/insurance system is. Do you know a doctor, nurse or hospital administrator? Ask them and they will say the same thing, louder and angrier: billing is exceedingly cumbersome, under-paying, always late, and inefficient. If the doctors don't benefit from this mess and the patients certainly do not, then who does benefit? Good question, and is it really "inefficient?"
 

 

State Proposes Ban on HMO Billing Practice
State officials, hospitals and doctors are locked in a dispute over whether some patients can be charged if they are taken to an emergency room outside of their health care network. For some, that bill can be a couple of hundred dollars, but for others it can reach into the thousands.
The ban proposed by the California Department of Managed Health Care would affect members of HMOs, such as Kaiser Permanente, not members of other kinds of insurance plans. The department only regulates HMOs. Administrators and hospital-based doctors say the state should be targeting insurance companies.

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Click here for a funny spoof on "Frequently Asked Questions about Your HMO."
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I met a gentleman this past Saturday at a "Tasting Party" who has been in this business for almost 2 years.  He is currently making a half million dollars per year and he is poised to become a millionaire by the end of this year!
 
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"Let thy medicine be thy food and thy food be thy medicine." 

 
- Hippocrates