-VISIT OUR OTHER FORUMS- OB-GYN-L Ultrasound Ultrasound History Fibroid Forum Physicians-in-Training Tech Talk OBSTET-L (portuguese) OBGIN-L (spanish) Nursing

Re: Public Aid From: Jay Kulkin (jkulkin@mindspring.com) Sat Sep 13 11:04:56 2003 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Public Aid" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Public Aid" Maybe in reply to: Anna Meenan, MD: "Public Aid" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: Public Aid" The don't accept the contract and create a different strategy that works better for you in your business. Joe's post on Newt's book would be a good start. Politics aside, lots of creative approaches are sited. I think docs have to take a little medicine from his approach in the sense that we have to do new things that work better for our patients and us. Complaining about what managed care offers is really non prodcutive for anyones business. Take it or leave it. Obviously you need an exit strategy to leave it but you may find more productive approaches. -- Jay M. Kulkin MD MBA FACOG Women's Institute For Health PC 975 Johnson Ferry Road Suite 460 Atlanta, GA. 30342 ph: 404-832-0300 fax: 404-832-0070 http://www.wifh.com This email may contain confidential or proprietary information which may be legally privileged. If you are not the named recipient, you should immediately delete it from your computer system. >----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Cutchin" <forcep@intercom.net> To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 10:07 AM Subject: Re: Public Aid > The bottom line. The USA cares more about it old and dying than it does > about its future.Or, the young can not vote. > > "Anna Meenan, MD" wrote: > > > Got a new fee schedule from Cigna the other day. I usually don't pay a > > whole lot of attention to those things because I'm on salary from the U, > > but I noticed an entry for Vag. delivery and it seemed low. I checked > > with our coder/biller and asked her about reimbursement from various > > sources. Turns out, Cigna pays me $31.52 LESS than Illinois Public Aid > > does for a vaginal delivery (59409). I did a little more investigating > > and found that the local hospital's PPO plan pays $4.12 LESS, One Health > > pays $67 LESS, and HMO Illinois pays a whopping $187.59 LESS than > > Illinois Public Aid does for a veginal delivery only. In fact, my coder > > and I searched for an insurance company that pays us MORE than IPA does > > and were unable to. Are we suckers or what? > > > > Anna Meenan, MD (out recruiting more public aid pts) > Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Public Aid" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Public Aid" Maybe in reply to: Anna Meenan, MD: "Public Aid" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: Public Aid"

Return to

Mail a New Message to the Forum: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net Forum Administrator: geffrey.klein@obgyn.net Report Technical Problems: webmaster@obgyn.net Last Updated: Thu Oct 2 04:44:55 2008

The American Medical Association is no longer designating CME hours for AMA Category II CME credit. However, physicians themselves may self designate learning activities as Category II CME credit hours if they feel it is of sufficient educational merit and meets the formal definitions of continuing medical education. OBGYN.net believes these interaction in this forum meets these criteria. For further information see the AMA web site.