Re: interesting item in American Medical News

From: Braun, R. Daniel (rbraun@iupui.edu)
Wed Sep 15 06:19:39 2004


My point exactly. We have way too many OBG's nationally(Woops, they aren't OBG's , they are Primary care Docs)

R. Daniel Braun, MD

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-----Original Message----- From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Anna Meenan, MD Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 1:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: 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
>





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