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Name:   Osms The author of this post is registered as a member - Email Member
Subject:   Family doctor's patient list...pay to stay
Date:   2/8/2012 10:30:47 PM

This interesting concept "prepay to play" is primarily being promoted by internists and family care (GPs) for a very simple reason.   The reimbursement system, both government and private payers, structure their payments heavily based on procedures.  Internists and GPs do a lot of diagnostics and little if any procedures.  Diagnostic tests go to radiologists and pathologists with the diagnostician getting little or nothing out of the deal; therefore, they are left with the patient visit charge only.  The specialists that are able to charge for procedures mostly do very well.  If you have a problem finding a "doctor", go to your surgeon, gynecologist, orthopedic, or other specialty and ask him to be your doc.  If I need to see a doc, I go straight to the specialist I feel I need.  Haven't been to a GP in 45 years, and I haven't been turned down by any specialist.  BTW, some HMOs in Florida and California pay less than Medicare...just in case you think Medicare is the lowest paying.
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Family doctor's patient list...pay to stay - 4691 - 2/8/2012 10:57:58 AM
     Just the beginning - MartiniMan - 2/8/2012 11:12:24 AM
          Just the beginning - lamont - 2/8/2012 12:51:24 PM
     MM is right - Summer Lover - 2/8/2012 2:28:22 PM
     Family doctor's patient list...pay to stay - roswellric - 2/8/2012 4:37:14 PM
     Family doctor's patient list...pay to stay - Talullahhound - 2/8/2012 5:00:38 PM
          Very Much Like a Dose of Herpes>>> - Mack - 2/8/2012 7:12:01 PM
               Very Much Like a Dose of Herpes>>> - Talullahhound - 2/8/2012 9:20:26 PM
                    Very Much Like a Dose of Herpes>>> - Talullahhound - 2/8/2012 9:31:30 PM
                         Hound, Thanks for the lecture>>> - Mack - 2/9/2012 12:57:56 PM
                              Hound, Thanks for the lecture>>> - Talullahhound - 2/9/2012 2:37:24 PM
                                   Hound, Thanks for the lecture>>> - Mack - 2/9/2012 3:50:20 PM
                                        Mack, I'd be the last person - Talullahhound - 2/9/2012 7:49:48 PM
                                             Hound, You Don't Get It - MrHodja - 2/9/2012 10:44:30 PM
                                                  Hodja -- I do get it - Talullahhound - 2/10/2012 6:22:13 AM
                                                       Correct assessment - Barneget - 2/10/2012 9:53:17 AM
                                                       Hodja -- I do get it - MartiniMan - 2/10/2012 11:02:20 AM
                                                            Hodja -- I do get it - Talullahhound - 2/10/2012 2:16:47 PM
                                                                 What the Catholic Church understands - MartiniMan - 2/11/2012 12:46:22 PM
                                                                      Don't you think - Talullahhound - 2/11/2012 12:52:49 PM
                                                                           Don't you think - MartiniMan - 2/11/2012 4:58:29 PM
                                                                                Don't you think - Talullahhound - 2/11/2012 7:53:43 PM
                                                                                     Not at all - MartiniMan - 2/11/2012 9:40:08 PM
                                                                                          Not at all - Talullahhound - 2/11/2012 10:18:00 PM
                                                                                               This thread... - 4691 - 2/11/2012 10:21:29 PM
                                                                      Adequate access to contraceptives - Barneget - 2/12/2012 10:13:05 PM
                                                       Hodja -- I do get it - MrHodja - 2/10/2012 3:48:01 PM
                                                            But - Talullahhound - 2/10/2012 6:27:00 PM
                                                                 One Quick Response - MrHodja - 2/10/2012 7:57:53 PM
                                                                      One Quick Response - 4691 - 2/11/2012 9:37:55 AM
                                                                           One Quick Response - MrHodja - 2/11/2012 11:27:00 AM
                                                                                One Quick Response - Talullahhound - 2/11/2012 12:58:19 PM
                                                                                     One Quick Response - MrHodja - 2/11/2012 3:27:00 PM
                                                                                          One Quick Response - Talullahhound - 2/11/2012 8:04:24 PM
                                                                                          BTW, Hodja... - Talullahhound - 2/11/2012 8:05:57 PM
                                                                                               BTW, Hodja... - MrHodja - 2/11/2012 8:45:25 PM
                                                                                               BTW, Hodja... - Casey - 2/11/2012 9:20:46 PM
                                                                                               [Message deleted by author] - Casey - 2/11/2012 9:20:55 PM
                                                       [Message deleted by author] - MrHodja - 2/10/2012 3:48:02 PM
                    Very Much Like a Dose of Herpes>>> - MrHodja - 2/8/2012 9:36:28 PM
                         Okay - Talullahhound - 2/8/2012 9:45:11 PM
                              Okay - buzzbuster - 2/8/2012 11:33:02 PM
                                   Okay - Talullahhound - 2/9/2012 7:15:35 AM
                                        Okay - Barneget - 2/9/2012 8:37:23 AM
                                             Clinics for the masses..... - Osms - 2/9/2012 9:09:57 AM
                                                  Clinics for the masses..... - Talullahhound - 2/9/2012 7:56:11 PM
               Well now... - roswellric - 2/9/2012 11:16:45 AM
          Family doctor's patient list...pay to stay - rude evin - 2/8/2012 9:19:55 PM
               But - Talullahhound - 2/8/2012 9:29:02 PM
                    But - MrHodja - 2/8/2012 9:44:02 PM
                         But - Talullahhound - 2/8/2012 9:49:19 PM
     Family doctor's patient list...pay to stay - Osms - 2/8/2012 10:30:47 PM
          Family doctor's patient list...pay to stay - GoneFishin - 2/8/2012 10:36:58 PM
               Family doctor's patient list...pay to stay - comrade - 2/8/2012 11:04:34 PM
          Family doctor's patient list...pay to stay - Talullahhound - 2/9/2012 7:07:04 AM


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