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Re: interesting item in American Medical News From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Tue Sep 14 13:07:21 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Next in thread: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Reply: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Wait a minute....if 150 Ob-Gyn's Make up 30% of the state's OB-Gyn's, that means there are 500 OB-Gyn's in Connecticut. Do they really need that many? Seems like a lot for such a tiny state. -- Anna Meenan, MD At Tue, 14 Sep 2004, art fougner, md wrote: > >This group is definitely a special case as the group consists of 150 >ObGyn's > >art > >At Tue, 14 Sep 2004, gin11153@aol.com wrote: >> >>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 > >-- >art fougner, md >ich bin ein New Yorker > Next message: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Next in thread: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Reply: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News"

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