It would help if the goos DR had answered her own question.
I doubt that we need to take up a collection.
Do doctors or lawyers ever get proficient at their chosen profession? I do not understand the practice thing. Can mechanics charge more if they call it a practice?
That's about the same as an oil change and a tire rotation at the local Honda dealer.
Forget it.
Unless we get a socialist program in which MD's are required to participate or face prosecution, Dr. Halderman is welcome to decline these patients.
As long as taxpayer money is funding Care/Caid I want the payments to providers set aggressively low.
Follow the money...dollars are the corpuscles of the truth here....its is far, far cheaper for the insurance company and the payer of last resort, the Feds(you and me), when a patient succumbs to an intracerebral hemmorrhage than to go through apprpopriate, highly skilled and technical intervention resulting in several weeks of hospitalization and rehabilitation.
Someone needs to nail this to the door of Hillary's Senate office. Obama's too.
She provides no data on compensation for surgery. It's a good bet that there is a reason.
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Whatever. I had an ultrasound the my insurance refused to cover. The bill was $303. After months of the hospital claims department and my insurance company going back and forth, they covered it. Their cost-- $105 with their discount. I like how even though I had insurance that denied the claim, I would have paid the full price to help cover the cost of some non-paying, uninsured person wo goes to the ER for a cold.
This doctor is absolutely correct. I work for a California MD and know this is no exageration. It's one reason I get so angry when I read some of the posts right here on FR about overpaid doctors.
The fine Dr makes a boat load on the actual surgery.
Yes, he bites the bullet in the office, but makes it up in the OR
Let's see a picture of Dr. Haldermann's house and car(s).
The last time I was hospitalized, I did a line item audit of the bill. There were things like $20 for two surgical gloves, $8 for a cotton swab, $10 for a box of tissues. My total bill was almost $100k, I was there for 5 days.
In the end, my insurance company, with discounts, paid about $20k
If I hadn't been insured, they would have come after me for $100k and I would have had to pay every dime.
Lawyers sue...
Hospitals have to get really expensive insurance...
Doctors have to get really expensive insurance...
Doctors and hospitals have to charge really enormous fees...
Sports and movie stars, however, don't have to pay so much for their insurance.