First, do no harm, not expend yourself until you are impoverished. Insco does not pay enough to cover overhead for most medics. All the regulations end up forcing two employees per medic just to move papers and interface with insco to garner a reduced reimbursement. The insco employs legions of clerks to run interference with the paper pushers, denying coverage and grinding down payment. SiL is one of the denial clerks. Just like cops, they have quotas. If you allow too many events, you get in trouble.
clay On Nov 3, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: > I would redirect my anger toward greedy doctors who conveniently forget > about the Hippocratic oath they swore to uphold... > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> So this morning my unkie posts on FB that he thinks he has pneumonia or >> something, calls his doc to come get checked out. His long-time doc left >> the place early in the year, some new doc takes the place. Turns out the >> new doc took off too, so now he is docless. (He did not check to see why >> he did not get notified or turfed off or what, just dropped.) The phone >> droid tells him to go to the ER or find a new doc. No docs in town taking >> new patients (probably no patients with Medicare or whatever he has). So >> he is all bent about that. >> >> I point out that "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." He >> got really upset about that, so I expanded on the comment a bit to tell him >> that 1) the practice should not have just ejected him with no notice, 2) >> unless they did give notice they are still responsible for him and his care >> with whatever doc is still around, 3) probably best to go to the ER or a >> doc-in-a-box to deal with the acute issue while sorting out with the >> original provider. Also that the med bidness is now pretty much like the >> DMV, esp with people like him on Medicare or Obamacare or whatever that >> doesn't pay much, despite the desires of the docs actually providing care >> to provide care. >> >> He was a big Obama/Obamacare supporter, now he is finding his dreams were >> somewhat misplaced as reality bites his butt (or lungs, in this case). He >> lives in a smallish town, I'm sure all the docs there are getting killed by >> low reimbursements, and just don't want to deal with the low-end customers. >> >> --R >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
