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From
@Health.com
http://www.athealth.com
An Interview with Bryant
Welch, J.D., Ph.D. (11/2000)
Overview of legal and quality-of-care
issues, ranging from liability insurance to nuances of online practice.
Part of an excellent Professional Interview Series directed towards health
professionals.
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The
American Mental Health Alliance
http://www.americanmentalhealth.com/
!Wonderful links here!
The American Mental Health Alliance provides
people in need with quality mental health services - services that respect
the individual's privacy and allow that individual to help shape the
course of treatment. For employers, they offer a highly value-based
benefit.
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Bazelon
Center for Mental Health Law
http://www.bazelon.org/
Legal advocacy for the civil rights and human
dignity of people with mental disability
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California
Coalition for Ethical Mental Health Care
http://www.ccemhc.org/home.html
The mission of the California
Coalition for Ethical Mental Health Care is to advance access to
quality, affordable mental health care through the coordinated efforts of
mental health consumers and professionals
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California
Department of Managed Health Care
http://www.dmhc.ca.gov/
The people of the Department of
Managed Health Care work toward an accountable and viable managed care
delivery system that promotes healthier Californians.
Through leadership and partnership the department
shares responsibility with everyone in managed care to ensure aggressive
prevention and high quality health care as well as improved overall
efficiency, including the reduction of "papeleo" (burdensome
paperwork).
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The
California Patients Guide:
Health Care Rights
and Remedies
http://www.calpatientguide.org/
This guide is intended to
inform you of your rights to receive quality health care and what steps
you can take if you encounter problems.
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Code
Blue Now! America's Health Care Voice... and Yours
http://www.codebluenow.org/
Code Blue is the alert sounded in hospitals when patients are
in cardiac arrest or face other life-threatening need for urgent care. Code
Blue Now!: America's Health Care Voice is a public education and
advocacy organization that will engage Americans in a broad dialog and
advocate for change in the health care system. It doesn't just expand the
health policy debate to include individuals, geographical communities,
Internet communities, other organizations and the public at large. It also
is a central grassroots forum for helping people find common ground and
take action. It is non-partisan and non-ideological in its approach to
health policy.
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Defend
Medicare. org
http://www.defendmedicare.org/page/page/434414.htm
The Campaign to Preserve - Not Privatize - Medicare educates
the public, the media and members of Congress about the dangers of
privatizing the Medicare program and the need for alternative legislation
that will strengthen the program by making it more responsive to the needs
of older Americans and people with disabilities
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Citizens
for the "Right to Know"
http://www.rtk.org/grievance.htm
"Take Control of
your Heath Care: What to do if there's a problem" is a great resource
on how to file a complaint. Citizens for the "Right to Know" is
a network of approximately 80 consumer and specific disease organizations
who share a common need -- access to quality information on health care
plans in order to make informed consumer choices.
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Families
USA -- A Voice for the Health Care Consumer
http://www.familiesusa.org/managedcare/
An exceptional organization that is dedicated to ensuring the patient
rights. They are working to regulate managed care on state and federal
levels, monitoring issues of Medicaid, Medicare, children's health
insurance, and universal health care. This site has great summaries of
developments in Congress and thorough information on the Single-Payer
Health Care System, an alternative that they support. Also, they have a
many publications, including a startling article on the enormous
compensations given to managed care CEOs.
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Flow
of Patient Health Information Inside and Outside the Healthcare Industry
http://www.ahima.org/infocenter/current/patientflowchartweb.pdf
The
American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA’s)
"Flow of Patient Health Information Inside and Outside the Healthcare
Industry" chart is divided into two groups: healthcare providers and
non-healthcare providers. To read the chart, first determine which group
you belong to, then follow the flow of health information to examine the
many interrelationships that exist. There is no single starting point for
this chart. As in everyday use of health information, the starting point
depends on the end use of the information. Traditionally, the originating
source of all health information is the treatment record. Increasingly,
however ,health information can originate from any access point.
Healthcare entities are facing the challenge of how to successfully manage
and protect this health information as it moves across the continuum of
care.
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The
Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org
Their mission is to be a watchdog for
consumer rights within the healthcare system. Great site with tons of
information, including Insurance Complaint Sites and information on
current medical reform.
See also:
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/public_hts/medical/horror/file_idx.htm
Sponsored by The Foundation for Taxpayer
and Consumer Rights. Includes a listing of horror stories intended to
raise awareness to the tragedies experienced by people at the hands of
managed care.
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Giant
E-Mail Links Page from The Conservative Caucus
http://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm
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Here's
your one-stop "megaphone" where you can E-Mail letters to your
elected representatives, talk shows, the media, and even write letters to
the editor. Tell them what you think!
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The
Health Care Helpline - Minnesota
866-296-4319
US Senator Mark Dayton
(D-MN) has opened a toll free Health Care Helpline for patients who have
been refused treatment by their HMOs and believe they should not have been
denied. Although Senate rules do not allow members to use their office
funds for public service announcements, Dayton paid $3500 from his own
pocket for public service announcements which ask: "What can you do
when you need medical care but your HMO or insurance company says no? Call
toll-free, 1-866-296-4319. If
you have already received treatment and your HMO or insurer refuses to
pay, Senator Dayton's Health Care Help Line can provide assistance."
Senator Dayton at a Washington press conference said, "I am
not asking the insurance companies to do anything for patients than that
which is already called for in their contracts. It's unfortunate that it
takes a call from a US Senator to elicit a response." Three staff
members will manage the cases, sitting down with insurers to determine a
resolution in each instance.
MPPA salutes Senator Dayton. We contacted his office a week ago,
and staff then reported that well over 300 calls had come in.
Lee
Beecher, M. D., President
Minnesota Physician-Patient Alliance MPPA
6600 Excelsior Boulevard, Suite 121
Saint Louis Park, MN 55426-4746
www.physician-patient.org
leebeecher@aol.com
Phone: 952/935-7116
Fax:
952-935-0687
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The
Health Privacy Project
http://www.healthprivacy.org/
The Institute for Health Care
Research and Policy at Georgetown University
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HMOs
for Seniors
http://hmos4seniors.com/
The only website for older adults that
offers independent Medicare HMO cost comparisons combined with the
convenience of requesting plan information from the Medicare HMOs
available in your area.
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How
to Play HMO Hardball
http://www.hmohardball.com
How to play HMO hardball teaches patients
how to prevent and reverse the wrongful denial of necessary healthcare by
HMOs and their doctors. The book contains easy-to-use,
fill-in-the-blanks documents that are critical to successful patient
appeals, arbitrations and lawsuits. HMOs teach bureaucrats and
doctors how to write documents that support denial of healthcare.
Hardball's documents present facts and ask questions that pressure HMOs to
help patients, not harm them.
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The
Institute For Health Freedom
www.ForHealthFreedom.org
An honest source for information about policies that affect your freedom
to choose your health care treatments and providers and to maintain your
health privacy—including genetic privacy.
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The
Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change
http://www.talkingcure.com
A research, training, and
consultation group dedicated to understanding and promoting human change,
growth, and potential.
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The
Insurance Consumer's Battle Manual
http://www.insuranceattorney.com
If you are a consumer looking for answers
to fighting your managed care plan- do not miss this site. This site and
Dr. David Trueman's site are "must sees" for the legal
perspective.
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Law
Offices of Dr. David L. Trueman
http://www.truemanlaw.com
An attorney and psychologist dedicated
to fighting HMO abuse. This site is one of the easiest to maneuver through
with the exceptionally thorough information on how managed care operates
and how to protect oneself within a legal perspective.
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The
Medical Privacy Coalition
http://www.medicalprivacycoalition.org
This is a national partnership of organizations concerned about the threat
to Americans' fundamental right to protect their medical information.
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Managed
Care Liability Project
http://www.managedcaresurvival.com
Project devoted to patients injured by
managed care, particularly managed mental healthcare, and their attorneys.
Site provides valuable information to attorneys so they can best represent
their clients.
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Mental
Health Resources
http://www.mental-health-resources.com/
An important web site bringing together links to high quality mental
health rescource and information sites from across the
internet.
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Long
Island Progressive Coalition
http://www.lipc.org
The Long Island Progressive Coalition
is a grassroots community-based organization dedicated to promoting
sustainable development, revitalizing local communities, enhancing human
dignity, creating effective democracy, and achieving economic & social
justice.
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Managed
Care Consumer Assistance Program
http://www.lipc.org/mccap.htm
MCCAP
is the Managed Care Consumer Assistance Program funded by a grant from the
New York State Attorney General’s office. The program is one of five
pilot programs whose primary purposes are to:
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Assist health care consumers in resolving problems with their health care
plans
Provide information and outreach to health care consumers
Monitor HMO compliance with the Managed Care Bill of Rights
Collect data so that systemic issues and problems are identified |
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Mental
Health - Madison
http://www.mentalhealth-madison.com/
This
web site is dedicated to providing consumers and professionals with the
latest, most reliable information about mental health conditions,
treatment, and resources.
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The
National Center for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
http://www.ncptsd.org/
This organization is resolved to
educate and help persons manage the impact of traumatic stress.
Especially good section relating to the recent terrorist activities in
NYC.
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Patients
Who Care
http://www.patients.org
A non-profit organization dedicated to
educating and helping patients in managed health care programs.
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Physicians
For A National Health Program
http://www.pnhp.org
Physicians for a National Health Program is a not-for-profit organization
of physicians, medical students, and other health care professionals that
support a national health insurance (NHI) program.
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Psychotherapists
for Social Responsibility
http://www.psychotherapistsforsocialresponsibility.org/
a
group of psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, mental health workers and other
mental health professionals whose premise is that the personal is
political and the political is personal.
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Recovery, Inc
http://www.recovery-inc.org/
Recovery, Inc. is a self-help mental health program based on
the ground breaking work of our founder a neuropsychiatrist, the late
Abraham A. Low, M.D. They are non-profit, non-sectarian and completely
member managed. Recovery Inc., has been active since 1937 and we have
groups meeting every week around the world.
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