Dr. Wes

CHICAGO - Citing mounting health care costs, electronic note bloat, and concerns with the quality and quality of Big Data, IBM, Apple, and ...

“We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.” ― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand ...

With the approval of new, innovative, yet expensive medications, doctors can expect their lives to become miserable as insurers do their bes...

One week's worth of drug letters Now that a new year has come and gone, I have been swamped with letters from pharmacy benefit manag...

"If you can speak what you will never hear,  if you can write what you will never read,  you have done rare things." -Hen...

In case you missed it, the "National Commission on Physician Payment Reform" issued their glossy, industry-produced  white paper...

A phone conference had been arranged.  They wanted to talk to me about a denial for payment on a portion of a patient's pre-authorized p...

I received this notice, dated 1 March 2012, from our billing department after a denial for reimbursement following a successful right ventri...

"Out with the old, in with the new!" Who's your doctor? Do you have one? If you have one, you aren't that interesting ...

Should Watson, IBM's artificial intellegence computer seen on Jeopardy, be classified as a medical device? We should ask ourselves tha...

Give me your medication list and I'll tell you your health problems. It happens every day in emergency rooms across the country as con...

Who doesn't need insurance reform? Why the insurers like Aetna, Cigna and BCS Insurance ! By threatening to raise health care premiums ...

... if you need a pacemaker or defibrillator as of 1 September 2010 in Illinois: (Like UnitedHealthcare patients were so easily identifiabl...

... because they're funding foot paths for the American Heart Association with them. Never mind that walking can be done pretty much a...

Call your lawyer first : After a few clients ran into difficulty getting information about adult children who were ill, Sheila Benninger, an...

From a somewhat threatening form letter I received from Peter McCauley, MD, Midwest Marketing Specialist, CIGNA , dated 1 August 2010: Dear ...

From Crain's Chicago Business : Every one of the 60 workers at Amitron Corp. snapped up the suburban manufacturer's new health insur...

It's summertime and the government's high risk insurance pool (made available by the recent passage of the health care reform bill i...

Call it sweet, delicious vindication. It was clinic day yesterday. No longer had I completed my rant in this blog about UnitedHealthcare...

Paul Levy, President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, today suggests we watch Massachusetts for what might be...