MD Preferred Blog

With only a few weeks left in 2010, it’s a time not only of reflection on the past year’s accomplishments, but also a time to prepare your finances for the upcoming year. Here are a few things you can do to make 2010 a more profitable year, and put you on the right financial track for 2011. 

Increasingly, patients are turning to the internet to find ranking tools that measure a wide range of healthcare outcomes and delivery systems. In Illinois, a new web site that ranks hospitals on a wide range of performance and cost parameters was launched recently. It was so popular that it crashed twice before it managed to get up and stay up. 

I can insure my personal auto and an insurance company can compute with relative accuracy what they need to charge in premiums to make it worth their while. I’ll bet I could insure a race horse or a champion bull. Someone out there could figure out the commercial value of the animal and compute a premium. But the insurance wouldn’t be for the health of the animal but rather for the value of the animal as a commodity.