Re: Managed care - was Ultrasound Credentialing
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Sun Jul 15 22:19:33 2001
egads - maybe C-A-S-H or barter or some other arrangement/
art
At Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Gerald P. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>Don't know about you, Art, but I wouldn't trade my HMO and regular indemnity
>fees for Medicare fees. I heard just last week one of our anesthesiologist
>say that he couldn't survive if all of his practice was Medicare based.
>Keep in mind that HMO/regular insurance treats OB fees pretty fairly,
>Medicare fees for gyn procedures are paltry at best. Under a single payer
>system, there would be, in my mind, an acceleration of the use of physician
>extenders. Right now, some people can vote with their feet; if all patients
>were covered by Medicare or something close to this, where would the unhappy
>patients and doctors turn?
>
>--
>Gerald P. Rodriguez, M.D., FACOG
>Santa Fe
>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "art fougner, md" <evsono@pipeline.com>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 4:35 PM
>Subject: Re: Managed care - was Ultrasound Credentialing
>
>> actually there are some who claim the opposite - suggesting that the
>> govt medicare has a 3 - 7 % administrative cost while hmo medicare is
>> 15%. not sure what the truth is but am sure it's out there.
>>
>> art
>>
>> At Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Gerald P. Rodriguez wrote:
>> >
>> >Bureaucracy.
>> >
>> >--
>> >Gerald P. Rodriguez, M.D., FACOG
>> >Santa Fe
>> >
>
>>>> >>----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Eberhard Lisse" <el@ac.lisse.na>
>> >To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L"
><ob-gyn-l@mail.medispecialty.com>
>> >Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 10:57 AM
>> >Subject: Re: Managed care - was Ultrasound Credentialing
>> >
>> >> In message <007f01c10d48$85a56520$1090fdd8@Cyber>, "Gerald P.
>Rodriguez"
>> >writes
>> >> :
>> >> > In the US, this option, a single payer--the Gov'mint--would cost much
>> >more.
>> >>
>> >> Why?
>> >>
>> >> el
>> >>
>>
>> --
>> art fougner, md
>>
>> A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.
>>
--
art fougner, md
A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.
