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Re: cesarean on demand From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@yahoo.com) Fri Dec 30 21:28:48 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: Not really Kick Counts" Previous message: D. Ashley Hill: "Re: cesarean on demand" In reply to: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: cesarean on demand" Next in thread: ainsron: "Re: cesarean on demand" This hearkens back to one delivery many, many moons ago. A repeat C/S. Her husband is an injury lawyer ... During one of her PN visits, she says to my partner ... "Isn't it interesting, my husband gets more for getting a drunk driver off his second offense than you get for my prenatal care, cesarean operation and follow up care" And yes, it is a sorry state of affairs! My attorney fees alone (1992/92) for my divorce (took 8-9 months) were just a little bit less than the 3 years of med school tuition (78-81). (MCOT was a 3 years school). But I would be very unhappy being a lawyer - so this is what we live with! Happy New Year. Joanne At Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Anna Meenan, MD wrote: > >But he would have to provide a procedure code for either a c-section or >a vaginal delivery. If he provided a code for a vaginal delivery that >was not done, that would be fraud. If he provided a code for a >c-section, theoretically he would have to code a diagnosis which would >explain the c-section. If he made up a diagnosis, that would be fraud. >We should not have to commit fraud to get paid for what we do. It's bad >enough that what we get paid for 8 months of around-the-clock medical >care, including 12-14 office visits, and several hours on L&D performing >one of the highest-risk procedures there is, merits about the same >amount of money that my auto insurance is going to pay the guy that >spends a day and a half fixing the minor dent in the passenger-side rear >fender of my car (which someone so obligingly left there during the >Christmas shopping season when I wasn't around). Maybe I should look >into a career in a body shop. I was pretty good at it when my husband >and I restored his old '68 Chevelle. > >-- > Anna Meenan, MD -- Joanne Bulley, MD Keene, NH, USA "Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is." — Duke Ellington, American jazz artist (1899-1974). Next message: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: Not really Kick Counts" Previous message: D. Ashley Hill: "Re: cesarean on demand" In reply to: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: cesarean on demand" Next in thread: ainsron: "Re: cesarean on demand"

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