Access HealthCare
An introduction to Medicare

Many of our patients have questions about Medicare. Here are two articles  with useful information about options for Medicare coverage and supplemental policies.  Our office continues to participate with Medicare.  We are accepting new Medicare patients on a case by case basis. Please remember that Access HealthCare has chosen not to participate with any Medicare [...]

September 10, 2009
 Mr. Alan Wise, Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors
Coventry Health Care, Inc
6705 Rockbridge Drive, Suite 900
Bethesda MD  20817
 Dear Mr. Wise: 
     I am a family physician providing health care services to a patient covered under Southern Health Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Coventry Health Care. Quite frankly, I am angry with you and [...]

The following  article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/business/09privacy.html?_r=1&8dpc raises questions about the security of prescription information in this era of computerized medical records and electronically transmitted prescriptions. The security of medical records in general is a concern of mine.
 So how can we arrange for medical information to be exchanged between physicians and other health care providers when needed, without opening the [...]