Healthcare Spending Projections On June 14, 2023, CMS released its projections for healthcare spending. Total healthcare spending will increase from $4.1 trillion in 2021 to $7.2 trillion in 2031, an average annual increase of 5.4%. At the same time, its share of GDP will grow from 18.3% in 2022, to 19.6% in 2031. Private health…
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The Situation An 85 year old male patient with a history of heart and digestive issues tells his primary care physician (PCP) that he has recently had intermittent chest pains. His PCP orders a routine blood panel. When he sees the results, he tells his patient to see his cardiologist to determine if he needs…
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One of the biggest personal challenges your clients’ employees face is inadequate healthcare. This becomes your clients’ problem, too, when the number of their health insurance claims and costs skyrocket. A major contributor to this problem is the fact that doctors cannot instantly access all their patients’ medical records from all their care providers at the…
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Frustrated that you can’t reduce your health insurance costs? That old employees are quitting and recruiting new ones is hard? There is a simple solution to both problems and it’s available today. It’s called MedKaz®. You should seriously consider it. When you embrace it, your employees, their families, their doctors and you will all benefit!…
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One of the biggest personal challenges seniors face is inadequate healthcare. This becomes Medicare’s problem, too, when their health insurance costs skyrocket. An Important New Medicare Benefit There finally is one benefit Medicare can offer that solves this problem — for seniors and Medicare. It’s called MedKaz®. It is self-financing, simple, inexpensive, very easy to…
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A Hypothetical Story You’re driving to your office. You’ve got a busy day and many appointments. To your surprise, a “Road Closed” sign appears in front of you. You ask yourself: Should I take the detour, or return home? Clearly, the detour may make you late but you’ll still be able to conduct business that…
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MedKaz is the “silver bullet” care providers have been seeking for years to improve healthcare and reduce its cost. It is a unique, patented, patient-owned portable personal health record. It contains copies of a patient’s records from all his/her providers and the application to manage them. Care providers use it ALONGSIDE their electronic medical record…
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As a senior executive in your company, are you frustrated that your health insurance costs keep going up and you can’t do anything about it? I suspect you are, and it doesn’t feel good. It’s like having the proverbial tiger by the tail! What’s Wrong You have no control over when your employees or their…
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In the United States, we spend more than twice the average cost per capita on healthcare than do other wealthy nations, and get decidedly poorer outcomes.* These poor results are driven in large part by a crisis in our healthcare system that seriously limits our doctors’ ability to treat us properly when we get sick.…
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Over the past 39 years, one senior citizen — we’ll call him Jack — has seen literally dozens of physicians in more than 10 practices and hospitals, six cities, three states. Using their systems, none could access all his records when they needed to understand his issues or coordinate his care. The result? They made some costly mistakes, sometimes hurt…
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