Health junction

For all of the grousing about health care, reforms or not, we still need to figure out how to resource our needs in the bifurcated U.S. delivery system and to that end, I wrote Unraveling U.S. Health Care-A Personal Guide, for the average Joe and Joanne. This easy to read guidebook for the U.S. health care system and some global centers for health care, is available on Amazon and elsewhere now. http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1442222972 https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442222977 I will be presenting material from the book on these dates: August 5th-6:00PM-Bremerton Public Library August 22nd-5:00PM-Book Release Event-La Toscanella September 4th-7:00PM-University Book Store October 15th-6:00PM-Seattle Public Library Main Branch And into the deep we swim-working on my strokes. Author-Roberta E. Winter AKA the healthpolicymaven

Hospital Overcharging-Where the Rubber Meets the Courtroom In a landmark class action lawsuit, Seattle based Swedish Hospital, now part of the Providence Hospital Group is being sued for charging an uninsured Issaquah man who visited the emergency room much more than what it charged privately insured patients or those covered on government health insurance programs. Though this disparity in hospital billing phenomenon is not new, what is raising the level of accountability is the class action lawsuit, because this will allow the courts to examine the billing of all uninsured patients for all seven of Swedish Hospital�s emergency departments. Though class action lawsuits often end in relatively small settlements for the plaintiffs in the suit, they are big money for the attorneys, at least those with the cojones to see them through to the end. Lifting the Veil on Hospital Billing   Basically here is how hospital billing works, there are different reimbursement levels for services f...