Re: Going into medicine What does your network do when you die?
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Wed Feb 2 11:30:00 2005
and the Anthem's gone nationsl ...
art
At Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Braun, R. Daniel wrote:
>
>I received this from a friend of mine and since she said feel free to
>pass it on, I thought I would.
>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
>
> Dan, you'll appreciate this story. Last March, 2004 the doctor
>with whom I'd had a doctor-patient relationship for 15 years died.
>Because I take prescription meds I needed to locate another MD in the
>Anthem network quickly so asked friends for recommendations and was able
>to hook up with a new MD whom I've seen several times in the past year
>and am quite pleased with the choice.
>
> On Jan. 31, 2005 I received a notice from Anthem telling me my
>former (deceased) doctor was no longer in the Anthem network effective
>last March (specifically the day she died), and advising me that I
>needed to select another care provider in the network. I couldn't
>believe it and so wrote a letter to the person whose name was on the
>form letter I received commenting that I was appalled to just be
>receiving notification from Anthem and that my former doctor's office
>had very professionally communicated with all her patients within 30
>days of her death, instructing them on procedures for chart transfer,
>etc. I commented that my dead doctor did a better job of communicating
>with her patients than a 'live' Anthem organization.
>
> Feel free to pass this along....
>
> _____
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art fougner, md
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
Lawrence Peter Berra
