Alex wrote:
On 15/10/2006, at 8:20 PM, ash wrote:
now there's ammunition for a peaceful revolution.... imagine if
everyone agreed to do just that, and encouraged the patients to post
in their claim forms for just a few weeks
Unfortunately a few weeks is all we would get - they would soon
legislate to make the number compulsory.
by the time the legislation got up they would have a shitload of claims
to sort out anyway
and in the meantime, if there was any eloquent representation in the
medical fraternity, they could use the issue as leverage for exposure of
a few sad truths behind the concept of "schedule fee"
i used to love explaining to patients before the rebate was 100% that
the government defined what they considered a service was worth, and
then unilaterally declared a 15% discount for themselves on payment if
we did the majority of the billing procedure for them... in those days
it would have been sensible to issue an account for 100% of the fee to
every patient and back it up with the information that it wasn't an ama
conspiracy, but the actual government defined minimum price of the service
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