Hmmm . . . I have PLMD and RLS, so I do see a neurologist whose name I bet you'd know.
$130 office visits are just insane, even if insurance DOES cover the rest of it. Nothing happens to me in my 30 minutes in that office that costs the doctor more than $10, and that's all labor, and way jacked-up if you consider the sum total of the labor involved is to whack my knee with that little rubber axe..
>>Hmmm . . . I have PLMD and RLS, so I do see a neurologist
>>whose name I bet you'd know.
>>$130 office visits are just insane, even if insurance
>>DOES cover the rest of it. Nothing happens to me in my 30 >>minutes in that office that costs the doctor more than
>>$10, and that's all labor, and way jacked-up if you
>>consider the sum total of the labor involved is to whack
>>my knee with that little rubber axe..
I figured that it was about time to get this off of general viewing.
I could see you but it's outside of the stuff I generally deal with. I just checked on the physician fee schedules- you can do it yourself here
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/providers/
though it's hardly a user friendly site. For an office consultation level IV- new patient high complexity (99244) Medicare reimburses $177.13. For an established outpatient visit you would probably fall into a level III (99213)- $53.76 or level IV (99214)- $84.36.
$130 does seem a bit much but if we were to use the $10 figure that you gave the MD would be bringing in $41,600 a year before taxes and overhead (office space rent and employees) assuming one patient every half hour for eight hours a day, five days a week, fifty-two weeks a year and no cancellations.