State:: Texas

Occupation:: Nurse, Quality, Utilization Review

I came across this web-site while looking into resources for people to prevent or resolve health care problems. I have worked in a variety of healthcare services (home health, hospice, correctional institutions, and hospitals) since…

Computer charting adversely affects nurses ability to give quality patient care. Software design usually excludes input from those who use it.I have seen systems that took a minimum of 25 minutes to complete per patient. In surgery I have had…

Elderly and disabled patients claim to be unknowingly switched to Medicare replacement plans. They present their Medicare card and we bill Medicare, only to have payment denied. Then we have to track down the correct replacement plan, often times requiring…

Health care professionals genuinely want to care for people. That is why they chose their health career in the first place. The bureaucracy and lunacy of our current health insurance system though is driving practitioners away from their health career…

As a healthcare provider of mental health services, I have decided to no longer accept insurance. Even though billing is easy with online methods, I found that payment was often delayed. With PPO’s, the rate reimbursed often changed month by…

This is an email I had gotten as a result of sending out an email to a group of friends about a new medication assistance website. This email truly illustrate the problem many people face with trying to access medical…

I just don’t think that there are enough doctors anymore. I work in an ER and when the patients leave I know it could take months for them to see a specialist, not because they are waiting for approval from…

Police and EMTs are usually first on the scene of an accident, and the first thing they do is remove the victim?s seat belt.

Accident victims are often disoriented or unconscious and it is crucial to bring them the proper medical…

I have worked in the counseling profession for many years and keep coming across the same problem. This is simply a person with no insurance and little or no money in need of a surgery however he or she must…

I am seeing something that disturbs me a great deal. I’m not high in the hospital pecking order or chain of command, but I have been working in the field of health care for 30 years. I believe there is…