There’s quite a bit of info available in NIR, LLC. Including the founder is Felix L. Song MD, who works with Queens, Trippler, Straub, Kaiser, Kapiolani… I’d say every major hospital on island.
Company was established in May of 2005.
The contracts you highlight to NIR are associated with procedures that are (not of themselves implants, but) for on-call patient services at Tripler exclusively, as part of a larger 3-year contract that was originally awarded in October of 22. But NIR has had similar contracts with the Defense Health Agency (the parent agency awarding funds to NIR) since 2005, when it was created.
It sounds like a weaker link to me than the others.
My local medical center/hospital in a small (3000 pop), Western Colorado rural town, has one number from a partially separate Ortho Dept. on caller id that shows up as DEFENSE HEALTH AGENCY!!
I have mentioned and inquired about why, and repeatedly told they don't know, but that others have also asked about it. It showed up sometime in 2019 or 2020, if I recall correctly.
And according to their own website, they perform an astounding number of ortho surgeries, with most traveling hours, to this really small place! That also means raking in the $$. The docs are also really young, good looking, "yuppy" types. Many travel from other places. And most disturbing to me, is the "military type" of religious shirts, along with military/militia type dress in photos with their children, on the hospital website.
The Ortho Dept also came in around 2018 or so, and have already added some pretty good size physical additions and tech upgrades.
It has really bugged me, but to see this now, is even more concerning to me. Not sure what to think, other than "down another bunny hole"!!
There’s quite a bit of info available in NIR, LLC. Including the founder is Felix L. Song MD, who works with Queens, Trippler, Straub, Kaiser, Kapiolani… I’d say every major hospital on island.
Company was established in May of 2005.
The contracts you highlight to NIR are associated with procedures that are (not of themselves implants, but) for on-call patient services at Tripler exclusively, as part of a larger 3-year contract that was originally awarded in October of 22. But NIR has had similar contracts with the Defense Health Agency (the parent agency awarding funds to NIR) since 2005, when it was created.
It sounds like a weaker link to me than the others.
My local medical center/hospital in a small (3000 pop), Western Colorado rural town, has one number from a partially separate Ortho Dept. on caller id that shows up as DEFENSE HEALTH AGENCY!!
I have mentioned and inquired about why, and repeatedly told they don't know, but that others have also asked about it. It showed up sometime in 2019 or 2020, if I recall correctly.
And according to their own website, they perform an astounding number of ortho surgeries, with most traveling hours, to this really small place! That also means raking in the $$. The docs are also really young, good looking, "yuppy" types. Many travel from other places. And most disturbing to me, is the "military type" of religious shirts, along with military/militia type dress in photos with their children, on the hospital website.
The Ortho Dept also came in around 2018 or so, and have already added some pretty good size physical additions and tech upgrades.
It has really bugged me, but to see this now, is even more concerning to me. Not sure what to think, other than "down another bunny hole"!!