Re: interesting item in American Medical News
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Wed Sep 15 10:35:41 2004
its more like social darwinism in action ... adaptation or extinction
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art
At Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Braun, R. Daniel wrote:
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>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.
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>R. Daniel Braun, MD
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>"If everyone likes you, you're doing something wrong."
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>Kinky Friedman
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>I believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause is more
>dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.
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>Andy Rooney
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>-----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
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>This group is definitely a special case as the group consists of 150
>ObGyn's
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>art
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>At Tue, 14 Sep 2004, gin11153@aol.com wrote:
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>>CONNECTICUT OBSTETRICIAN-GYNECOLOGISTS SCRAP PLAN OF RAISING FEES The
>>practice had wanted to charge $500 extra. Instead, almost every insurer
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>>agreed to pay them higher reimbursements for pregnancy care. By Damon
>>Adams, AMNews staff Sept. 20, 2004.
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>>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
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>>$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
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>>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. [...]
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>>Read the entire article in American Medical News:
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>>http://www.amednews.com/2004/prsd0920
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>>SENDER'S COMMENT: I found this story amazing-from the AMA site Sent by:
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>>Gail Neuman RNC CPHW SNP
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>art fougner, md
>ich bin ein New Yorker
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art fougner, md
ich bin ein New Yorker
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