Extreme made up example as doctors will not be required to code as they go during surgery, but it points out how government regulation has permeated a once free society.
Because to liberals, there’s no difference between a surgeon and an Amazon factory worker.
The “Coding” is probably done by someone working from home at a computer, hundreds or thousands of miles from the surgeon
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Instituting the tracking of previously semi-autonomous employees in 15 minute increments wrecked morale at my former employer (I’m now retired) and reduced customer satisfaction (the employees needed said autonomy/flexibility).
More staff will have to be hired to shadow the surgeons and document their every move - a huge indirect/non-productive cost increase just to harass more surgeons into retirement or a career change. There is a lot of fraud in Medicare, but I seriously doubt this is the place to look. The Regime would love to close more hospitals and reduce the number of providers with the obvious results of less care delivered.
When my GP practice went digital .... the doc [not used to the system yet] spent more time entering data about me....than he did listening to me as a customer.
We’re past that now.
I have a surgeon who does NOT use the computer at all...he has a technician sitting in the exam room with him; he dictates everything to her, which she enters into a laptop..... different strokes for different folks. What could go wrong?
Dr. Robot please check in.
If you do not check in in two minutes you will be terminated.
Ive been in healthcare since 1997. I can tell you firsthand that the government has utterly destroyed this industry - job satisfaction, patient satisfaction, quality of care, etc etc etc all while driving up the costs.
If Caesar pays your bills, then you do whatever Caesar says.
This is just crazy. The specific bureaucrats responsible for this need to be identified, and their identities splashed across the internet.
I wonder if this would work for Zero on the golf course or Hillary while she is handling her load of emails. /sarc
The regulators are going to shut down Medicare or replace all the actual doctors as they go somewhere else, with assistant nurses and clerks.
As a retired medical coder, this is ridiculous. But, of course, it’s the government....so..
Only the federal government can think up something this mind-boggling incredibly stupid...
We have to keep those bean counting bureaucrats employed.
Good Grief! Did you ever stay with a sick person in the hospital and watch the nurses station? They used to “nurse” ...now they are computer users. I watched over the shoulder of one, thinking I was going to see a video game or something ... nope. She was filling out a form on a visit she had just made to my Father in Law ... she wasn’t in the room 5 minutes (BP, etc) and it took her about 15 minutes to get the form filled out.