Subjects:  1. Fiction - Mystery/ Detective    2. Mystery & Detective - General   

Subjects:  1. Entitlement spending    2. Health Care Delivery    3. Health Care Planning    4. Health Policy    5. Insurance, Health    6. Law and legislation    7. Medicaid    8. Medicaid & Medicare    9. Medical    10. Medical / Nursing    11. Medical Economics    12. Medicare    13. Practice Management & Reimbursement    14. Public Health    15. Health systems & services    16. Medical / Health Policy    17. Medical ethics    18. Medicine | Public Health    19. Medicolegal issues    20. Public health & preventive medicine    21. USA   

Subjects:  1. Health/Fitness    2. Medicaid & Medicare    3. Medical / Nursing   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Insurance - General   

Subjects:  1. Claims administration    2. European - General    3. Gerontology    4. Health Policy    5. Medicaid & Medicare    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Medical care, Cost of    9. Medicare    10. Public Policy - General    11. Health systems & services    12. Insurance    13. Literary Criticism & Collections / European    14. USA   

Subjects:  1. Health Insurance    2. Medicaid & Medicare    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Medical History & Records    6. Medical Records    7. Nosology    8. Practice Management & Reimbursement   

Reviews (9)

Not bad, want to see more
This novel is somewhat 'made for TV' which I guess means that it has the formulaic suspense of the typical mystery.The heroine is a great character who is a lawyer for a Midwest hospital who encounters foul play on a large scale there.This hospital,I am sure,is heir to all the distorted motivations regarding billing and insurance handling that can motivate villianous health providers and borderline types alike. There are some vile people in this mystery and the author reveals how the system encourages immoral abuse of it, often even more sleasy than outright abuse because often there is the further guise of 'putting the patient first' (and who can argue with that?)
Not Sure I read the Same Book...
I'm lost by the STRONG reviews going on here.While the book had an interesting plot where the heck was the editor?At some point chapters would almost repeat verbatin paragraphs from other chapters.I could also do without the instructions on how to work her voicemail... "press 1 to listen to messages", so I pressed 1, "press 2 to repeat" so I pressed 2.The leaps in logic were off on how she figured out the mystery.At times the story switched between 1st and 3rd person but during the same paragraph which is very odd to read. Great Story, Slow Read
Investigating the alleged wrongful death of the hospital's own CFO, attorney Karen Hayes uncovers a betrayal of trust, both professional and personal, evidence of criminal fraud, and hints of corruption. Now her job-and her life-are on the line. A line that a murderer is all too willing to cross. The storyline was interesting but the book was a slow read.There was too much useless information that was used to pad the book.I think the relationship between Karen and her husband could have been left out or atleast shortened.I like medical thrillers but this one just doesn't make the cut. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American Mystery & Suspense Fiction    2. Fiction    3. Fiction - Mystery/ Detective    4. Hospital patients    5. Legal    6. Medical    7. Medical novels    8. Medicare fraud    9. Suspense    10. Thrillers    11. Women lawyers    12. Fiction / Thrillers    13. Literary Criticism & Collections / Mystery & Detective Fiction   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Health Care Delivery    3. Insurance, Catastrophic health    4. Law and legislation    5. Long-term care    6. Medicare    7. Older people    8. Politics - Current Events    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Reference    11. United States    12. Central government policies    13. Citizenship & nationality law    14. Health systems & services    15. Social law    16. USA    17. Welfare & benefit systems    18. c 1980 to c 1990   

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Industries - General    5. Medicaid & Medicare    6. Medical economics    7. Economics    8. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects   

Subjects:  1. Medicaid & Medicare    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Medical History & Records    5. Practice Management & Reimbursement    6. Reference   

Reviews (1)

This Book Needs to be Reprinted
For the middle class - getting sick in your old age forces you into extremme state of humiliation. For years you worked to secure a retirement for yourself and your spouse - and than the cost of medical care - the parts that MEDICARE does not cover leaves you in a desparate situation. The medical costs are more than you can bear - you are responsible for your medical, skilled nursing, home care, ambulance service, prescription drugs etc. Paying these bills in a long term illness - impoverishes the spouse who is left after the debilitating illness takes the sick one's life. I have no objection that saved wealth would not be transferred to one's descendants - but a system has to be put into place that protects the spouse that remains alive. Mr. Armond Budish in this fine book - provides one legal and moral techniques to allow one the best opportunity to save a reasonable portion of one's wealth so that the surviving spouse does not end up totally destitute. in most cases the surviving spouse's health has taken a precarious toll in taking care of the sick seeing him or she waste away - and seeing the all-powerful state force one to spend one's resources down. For an individual who has worked and saved all his/her life refused welfare of any kind over those forty productive work years - to be treated so disdainlly by a cold bureacracy makes one wonder about the priorities or lack thereof in establishing a safety net for our senior citizens. If the moneyis taken by the state upon the death of the second spouse - that's fine. Children of hard working middle class citizens like myself should not necessarily be entitled to the redistribution of wwealth - but allow for and provide our seniors their share of the sun. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Economic aspects    2. Finance, Personal    3. General    4. Health Care Issues    5. Health/Fitness    6. Industries - General    7. Nursing homes    8. Personal Finance - Financial Planning    9. Reference    10. United States   

Features

• Illustrated

Subjects:  1. Case Reports    2. Chemotherapy    3. Drug Therapy    4. Drugs, Nonprescription    5. Internal Medicine    6. Medicaid & Medicare    7. Medical    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Pharmacist and patient    10. Pharmacology    11. Symptoms    12. HANDBOOKS, VADE-MECUMS, ETC.    13. Medical / Chemotherapy    14. Pharmacy / dispensing   

Subjects:  1. Finance    2. Health Care Delivery    3. Health Care Issues    4. Health Care Policy    5. Health Policy    6. History    7. Intergovernmental fiscal relat    8. Intergovernmental fiscal relations    9. Medicaid    10. Medicaid & Medicare    11. Medical    12. Medical / Nursing    13. Medical Economics    14. Public Health    15. United States    16. Local government    17. Political Science / General    18. Public health & preventive medicine    19. Social work    20. USA    21. c 1980 to c 1990    22. c 1990 to c 2000   

Subjects:  1. Medicaid & Medicare    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Practice Management & Reimbursement   

Reviews (1)

Medicare Secondary Payer Guide
This is a reasonably good resource for MSP guidelines.However, since it was published in 1996 Medicare rules have changed and it is not completely reliable as a resource. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Compensation And Benefits    2. Costs Of Health Care    3. Entrepreneurship    4. Human Resources & Personnel Management    5. Insurance, Health    6. Medicaid & Medicare    7. Medical    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Medicare    10. Personal & Practical Guides    11. United States    12. Business & Economics / Management    13. Health systems & services    14. Industrial relations    15. Personnel & human resources management    16. Reference works    17. Self-Help & Practical Interests   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Consumer Finance    4. Economic Conditions    5. Economics - General    6. Medicaid    7. Medicare    8. Personal Finance - Retirement Planning    9. Social security    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / Economics / General    12. Political economy    13. Political science & theory    14. USA    15. Welfare & benefit systems   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Business & Economics    3. Business/Economics    4. Compensation management    5. Group Practice    6. Medicaid & Medicare    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Physicians    9. Practice Management & Reimbursement    10. Salaries, etc    11. Salaries, etc.    12. United States    13. economics    14. Business & Economics / Accounting / General    15. Emergency services    16. Health systems & services    17. Labour economics   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Economic aspects    5. Economics - General    6. Finance    7. Health care reform    8. Industries - General    9. Medicare   

Subjects:  1. Health Care Delivery    2. Health Insurance    3. Health Policy    4. Insurance - Health    5. Medicaid & Medicare    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Practice Management & Reimbursement