I don’t know how you can keep serving people you don’t make money on. There was something a few years ago my doc did (ekg or something) that he says he now sends to the hospital. The insurance companies won’t reimburse him now except a few bucks, but the hospitals they will, so he says, “Why do it?” It’s a rational decision on his part.
“I don’t know how you can keep serving people you don’t make money on.”
You don’t; the ERs close. Happened in southern CA, and is happening in my area (northeastern NJ); the illegals flood the emergency rooms, the state reimbursement doesn’t keep up, and the ER shuts down.
“There was something a few years ago my doc did (ekg or something) that he says he now sends to the hospital. The insurance companies won’t reimburse him now except a few bucks, but the hospitals they will, so he says, “Why do it?” It’s a rational decision on his part.”
My wife’s doctor sent her somewhere for a test that she’d had previously in his office; he said he could do it in his office if she was on welfare, but the insurance company wouldn’t pay for it otherwise.