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[hoosierdoc]

Screw you too, Ted.

The no surprises medical billing act kicked us in the teeth. Now I'm required by laws to sign the contract with any insurance company my hospital contracts with. I am in ER doctor. I cannot move my practice. Insurance company negotiates with the hospital, and then they know we are required by law to sign whatever piece of crap they send us.

Medicare is cutting our reimbursement by 4%, 7% inflation, and Medicaid has not increased payments in 30 years. Over that time. They have probably tripled our documentation requirements and reduced private reimbursement significantly compared to inflation.

 

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[BugI02]

Screw you too, Ted.

The no surprises medical billing act kicked us in the teeth. Now I'm required by laws to sign the contract with any insurance company my hospital contracts with. I am in ER doctor. I cannot move my practice. Insurance company negotiates with the hospital, and then they know we are required by law to sign whatever piece of crap they send us.

Medicare is cutting our reimbursement by 4%, 7% inflation, and Medicaid has not increased payments in 30 years. Over that time. They have probably tripled our documentation requirements and reduced private reimbursement significantly compared to inflation.

Sorry, Doc. The practice of seeming log-rolling, where I make sure I go to a hospital in my network and get a doctor in my network but then he calls in a buddy 'colleague' who is out of network to 'consult' for thousands of dollars in surprise charges is what got you into this mess. Police your own house first

 

[1DOWN4UP]

Don't get sick

Don’t get sick. Seriously, don’t. As much as it pains me to say it, American medicine…no, the entire healthcare system, is, to put it plainly, FUBAR. Those of us with boots on the ground have known this for quite a long time; I suppose we’ve been riding the decline, knowing full well there...

thegooddoctor.substack.com

 

[hoosierdoc]

Sorry, Doc. The practice of seeming log-rolling, where I make sure I go to a hospital in my network and get a doctor in my network but then he calls in a buddy 'colleague' who is out of network to 'consult' for thousands of dollars in surprise charges is what got you into this mess. Police your own house first

You're right, it is all a scam to defraud you.

There were ways to stop this from happening. Congress chose none of them. It in our best interest to be in network with as many people as we can. But when insurance company gives you **** poor reimbursement, our only recourse is to go out of network and use it as leverage. Now we have none.

Enjoy the destruction of modern health care and independent medical groups. Guess what happens when you lose the capitalist incentive to work hard?

I would say about 30% of the time I consult a specialist now I talk to a doctor. That number goes down every year.

Altruism has its limits and it is getting very hard to squeeze between that asymptote

 

[hoosierdoc]

Don't get sick

Don’t get sick. Seriously, don’t. As much as it pains me to say it, American medicine…no, the entire healthcare system, is, to put it plainly, FUBAR. Those of us with boots on the ground have known this for quite a long time; I suppose we’ve been riding the decline, knowing full well there...

thegooddoctor.substack.com

Oh the stories I could tell you about calling surgeons and their responses to me. Or the hospitalists, or so many others.

The heroes of healthcare have become the zeroes.

Good luck everyone. It's been a fun 11 years.

 

[Leadeye]

I suppose it could be worse.



I've got valve surgery coming up, not sure how long I would have to wait under NHS.

 

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