Posted on 03/24/2010 5:42:07 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
March 23, 2010
My Dear Patient,
As you must know, Congress has just passed extensive legislation governing health care delivery and insurance systems. Whether you agree with what it does or not, we are all now subject to this law and its sweeping changes.
I have always conducted my medical practice with my patient’s best interests as my first priority. Although not legally obliged to do so, I have routinely provided you with a receipt that has all the codes necessary to bill your own health insurance company for any reimbursement to which you are entitled. Until now, that insurance company was a free enterprise despite the fact that it was heavily regulated by state and federal laws. Now the situation is quite different. Through the new law’s mandates, regulatory powers and reform, health insurance is and will be largely a government activity which will have an ever larger jurisdiction over how doctors practice, make clinical judgments and are paid.
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This is a conservative forum. This physician has every right to practice her profession in the manner she see fit.
“MRI, Radiology, etc., where records will be kept and sent to the government.”
What I’ve read so far of the bill, you are correct.
Currently, you enter into a hospital and designate how you are going to pay (insurance information or self-pay, etc.), that information will go into their electronic system. The hospitals I’ve worked in do not have the option to exclude you or your information from their system because they are in receipt of government funds in the form of CMS patients and thus because the government already essentially controls the functioning of the hospitals that accept their patients, they also control many if not all of the regulations within a hospital. The hospitals can refuse to comply (won’t happen) with CMS regulations but they will be “decertified” and will not be paid for CMS patients. CMS patients account for a significant amount of revenue for many hospitals.
Hospitals do have programs in which your name can be changed so nosy prying eyes can’t identify you (in the cases of extreme wealth, notoriety, fame, high profile case etc. or a victim of a crime or suspected victim), but the real id is always known on the backside.
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“This physician has every right to practice her profession in the manner she see fit.”
For however long she is allowed to practice it. Failure to adhere to the rules will eventually result in having ones medical license pulled and with it her ability to prescribe drugs.
After listening to the discussion about the process which will be used to amend the Law to include children with pre-existing before 2014, it became apparent that Ms. Sillybus has broad authority to write specific regulations - which I am sure she will change on a regular basis. Given that, I would suspect that there may be a move to deny physicians the ability to practice medicine independently, i.e., on a private pay basis. BO is really pushing the electronic medical records issue but he doesn’t have a clue how much data will be descending on those trying to manage the program. Their systems are not state of the art nor are there enough people who can manage such systems. I would suspect that all of this is several years down the road and if we can’t get Congress re-staffed before them we are in real trouble. On the other hand, I’m not sure that the Republicans we have in Congress right now have sufficient knowledge to problem solve these matters either.
Well, then let's get to it! The "moocher" class is hungry. They're getting Obama money and free health care. And they want more!
Let someone suggest free legal services, and watch the corrupt lawyers who game the system squirm. How much you want to bet that they'd argue that a public option, access to quality, affordable legal services, would be "unconstitutional?"
I understand that. I've gone to doctors who don't participate in any insurance programs. I paid by cash, check, or credit card. The doctor's office always gave me a receipt with the correct medical billing code on it so I could submit it to my insurance company for reimbursement or to credit towards my deductible. But without a medical billing code, which this doctor says she will no longer provide, most insurance companies won't accept the receipt.
Again, the doctor can run a cash-only practice. That certainly simplifies things for her. But not providing a receipt with the medical billing code on it only hurts her patients.
Or am I missing something here?
How does providing patients who pay cash for her services with medical billing coded receipts required for insurance reimbursement EQUAL providing free medical care?
You lost me on that one.
She sure does! I hope NRO interviews her 1 or 2 years from now and see how her practice is doing since she started refusing to issue the coded receipts her patients need for insurance reimbursement.
She won’t have patients with any kind of medical insurance. I don’t know who that leaves except illegal aliens and crackheads!
This would be fine with me.I'm sure the doctors are more than willing to work on the payment of services with each patient,just like in the old days.The beauty of these doctors decisions is that some board or panel,or bureaucrat will not be making MY decisions for me.
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“She won’t have patients with any kind of medical insurance. I don’t know who that leaves except illegal aliens and crackheads!”
No. The illegal aliens and crackheads WILL have the government mandated health insurance. I think the whole point of this thread is for those who will rebel against the whole Nationalized Healthcare scheme will be her customers.
Just remember to pay the fine for not having health insurance. (This is all so fricken’ nuts)
Actually the illegals won't go to her, they'll be getting their health care covered by the government.
Perhaps the movement isn't happening in your area but there are many folks who pay for their health care directly - not illegals and crackheads, but people who don't want the insurance company and the government telling them what tests/care they can and cannot have.
You're right. Look at the cost of lasik eye surgery and plastic surgery. Those prices have been dropping. No involvement of insurance or government and it's the only area of medicine where prices have dropped.
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