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Re: Gyn: Cervical Cancer Screening From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@gmail.com) Sun Jan 13 06:48:01 2008 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Gen: Answering Service" Previous message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Care of pregnancy in a patient who has had a Whipples procedure." In reply to: Henry Gregor: "Re: Gyn: Cervical Cancer Screening" Next in thread: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Gyn: Cervical Cancer Screening" Reply: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Gyn: Cervical Cancer Screening" Reply: Henry Gregor: "Re: Gyn: Cervical Cancer Screening" YEs some may -- but most of my patients (of 22 years) won't let their PCP do a gyn exam and they have no interest in switching to the other gyns in the area. The few that do ... well so be it. We can only do so much! Joanne At Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Henry Gregor wrote: > >"Joanne Bulley, MD" <islesannie@gmail.com> wrote: >It actually saves Medicare $ as well. They would have paid for a Pap >every 2 years without the HPV (and the patients wanted the Pap as often >as it would pay) - now they get to pay every 3 years for over 95% and >every year for the other 5% > > IMO as long as Medicare still pays every two years, many of these 3yr candidate patients will still get their q 2 paps, either from me, or the next provider many of them will walk down the street to see...after politely listening to whatever level or length of discussion/explanation I may have with them. In my experience the only thing that has moved many of these women to accept two year interval screening was Medicare's reimbursement policy. Unless Medicare revises its payment policies to reflect these guidelines, I think one will continue to see such reluctance...sort of a compliment to the success achieved in spreading the gospel of yearly paps.(Which under the times and circumstances was done with the best of intentions and predicated upon the best info available....I don't want to criticize those early efforts.) > > Hank -- Joanne Bulley, MD, FACOG Solo gyn Keene, NH USA Next message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Gen: Answering Service" Previous message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Care of pregnancy in a patient who has had a Whipples procedure." In reply to: Henry Gregor: "Re: Gyn: Cervical Cancer Screening" Next in thread: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Gyn: Cervical Cancer Screening" Reply: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Gyn: Cervical Cancer Screening" Reply: Henry Gregor: "Re: Gyn: Cervical Cancer Screening"

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