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Re: interesting item in American Medical News From: Braun, R. Daniel (rbraun@iupui.edu) Wed Sep 15 06:11:29 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Braun, R. Daniel: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Previous message: DMECNM@aol.com: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Maybe in reply to: gin11153@aol.com: "interesting item in American Medical News" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" And so they are saying : They don't care as long as they make enough money. They will accept more money from the insurors and raise health care costs, instead of trying harder to get the system fixed. R. Daniel Braun, MD "If everyone likes you, you're doing something wrong." Kinky Friedman I believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude. Andy Rooney -----Original Message----- From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of art fougner, md Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: Re: interesting item in American Medical News 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: Braun, R. Daniel: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Previous message: DMECNM@aol.com: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Maybe in reply to: gin11153@aol.com: "interesting item in American Medical News" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: interesting item in American Medical News"

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