Posted on 09/18/2015 5:02:31 PM PDT by dontreadthis
Corporate lawyers and bean counters working for the healthcare insurers that's who. The ones who whiz on themselves in delight when one insignificant error is fould so they can make the doctor refile.
Insurers own a majority of Congress. They have the largest lobby. What they want all the way down to the size of your cold drinks sold in stores they get laws passed for it.
Over 75% of the laws, codes, ordinances,etc on the books today are there because insurers pushed for them from the federal level on down.
Lyndon Johnson drove the first nail in the coffin of health care. Ted Kennedy said no nails just won't do it we also need to use screws and glue. Obama said the health care system is still breathing and costing insurers. He ordered to open the box and drive a steak through the heart of healthcare and seal it all back up and bury it in a sealed vault.
I wish there were some kind of resource that one could contact to find doctors like this, who are operating this way.
I know of one doc in my area who gave up accepting insurance years ago - even then he was disgusted with all the interference with his care of patients.
-JT
good grief, if you think that socialized medicine began with Romney, you must be 12 or 13 years old...
Google ‘concierge medicine’. I suspect that is the model the doctor is planning to use.
If you deny RomneyCARE began this,
then you are sleeping with Romney, Rove, or Gruber.
Two years ago we used to do practice management, including all accounting, payroll, tax prep, pre-auth and billing, for docs who serve patients in fields of surgery, pediatrics, orthopod, anesthesiology, lab and mental health. We stopped providing any kind of pre-auth and billing services for everyone except mental health providers in January 2015.
Many of those docs I chose to drop billing and pre-auth services for have since quit taking any insurance at all because they simply could not afford the personnel, constant training and software resources it was going to take just to handle the paperwork of a solo practitioner.
Have been in this line of business since 1985 and been through more changes that I even want to remember. This is just going to be the granddaddy of all messes, particularly for Medicare providers who will be the first group under the gun.
I’m a little confused because just about every medical practice operating in the US today uses some kind of third-party software application to do all of the insurance claims work, and that software would have been updated to do ICD-10 without the practitioner having to do any actual conversion. I suppose that the office personnel would have to learn new codes, but I would think that would also be a click down menu with shortcuts for procedures the office does on a regular basis.
That said, I certainly support this physician in his views on the state of health care and insurance. My own physician stopped taking Medicare patients a couple of years ago due to the same type of concerns.
Best of luck with the practice going forward.
much of the practice software in current use were not built to accept the 6 digit ICD-10 codes.Upgrades are expensive.
Also, even though office staff enters the codes in the software, the physician must supply them with the correct code, or the staff must wade through the dictations and many more possible codes.
I follow her on twitter...she’s been a firebrand
Thanks...I just looked at her blog/twitter. She’s doing the Lord’s work, for sure.
This is great. Very pleased to see it and hope more go this route.
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