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interesting item in American Medical NewsFrom: gin11153@aol.comTue Sep 14 02:47:42 2004
CONNECTICUT OBSTETRICIAN-GYNECOLOGISTS SCRAP PLAN OF RAISING FEES The practice had wanted to charge $500 extra. Instead, almost every insurer agreed to pay them higher reimbursements for pregnancy care. By Damon Adams, AMNews staff Sept. 20, 2004. A practice of 150 obstetrician-gynecologists in Connecticut has scrapped plans to charge an extra $500 per pregnancy to help cover rising medical liability premiums. The group, Women's Health Connecticut, wanted to force a legislative solution to Connecticut's liability woes and vowed to scuttle the fee if lawmakers passed tort reform. No reforms were passed. But the group has abandoned the $500 surcharge, which it planned to levy starting Sept. 1, because health insurers instead agreed to raise doctors' reimbursements. Almost every insurer agreed to pay higher reimbursements for pregnancy care, some by $500 or more a case, officials said. "The payers, for the most part, have been accommodating. While no one rolled over and played dead, they were sympathetic," said Nancy Bernstein, president and CEO of Avon, Conn.-based Women's Health Connecticut, whose doctors account for 30% of the state's ob-gyns. [...] Read the entire article in American Medical News: http://www.amednews.com/2004/prsd0920 SENDER'S COMMENT: I found this story amazing-from the AMA site Sent by: Gail Neuman RNC CPHW SNP
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