Posted on 09/10/2016 12:42:53 PM PDT by buckalfa
Surgeons are speaking out against a Medicare proposal that would require them to use new billing codes to track their work in 10-minute increments during global surgical "packages" that span 10 days and 90 days, reports Medscape Medical News. The "packages" include preoperative and postoperative care as well as the procedure itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at beckershospitalreview.com ...
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.
unless of course it’s their surgeon.
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
I worked for a tiny company where you came and went as you pleased, as long as work got done. Did many weekend jobs and all-nighters.
Company was bought by an outfit that did government work. Then we had to justify our existence and charge accounts every 15 minutes. Got to where I wouldn’t reply to a colleague’s greeting without thinking of what account I would charge that time to.
To put it perspective, one owner of the little company used to work for a big electric company. He called in one morning and said he wasn’t coming in. Maybe they called him. He was desperately needed. He explained to them that he was in bed with two women and wasn’t coming in. “Oh, we understand.”
The regulators are going to shut down Medicare or replace all the actual doctors as they go somewhere else, with assistant nurses and clerks.
I owned a company that specialized in software for medical practices.
In early 1999 I served on a vendor committee for HIPPA implementation. The other vendors and I laughed at the government bureaucrats. They had no idea how impractical their ideas were.
Had an opportunity to get out in late 1999. Just in the nick of time. Never looked back.
As a retired medical coder, this is ridiculous. But, of course, it’s the government....so..
They’re both deplorable.
Only the federal government can think up something this mind-boggling incredibly stupid...
Yes. Yes. Yes. and Yes. I'm heartbroken about where medicine is.
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