A Special Credit Score — To Determine Your Healthcare Treatment

There’s an interesting series of articles on US healthcare over at Leadership Turn. And while I’ve been reading up on that, something else has been brought to my attention: The fact that the Fair Isaac Company (of FICO score fame) is putting together the MedFICO.
The MedFICO will be a way of rating those that obtain healthcare. Basically, it is a credit score that you receive for hospital payment. If your insurance company is slow (or doesn’t pay at all), you get dinged. If you don’t have insurance (an increasing problem for many of us), and you set up a payment …read more