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Fwd: Press release from Physicians Who Care ( Long) From: RModugno@aol.com Thu Aug 27 18:12:17 1998 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Peter Wein: "Re: OB:Home Births in Australia" Previous message: Betsy Hyde: "Re: OB:Home Births in Australia" In a message dated 8/27/98 10:47:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, pwcorg@flash.net writes: << August 25, 1998 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Information: Ronald Bronow, M.D. 310-656-5692 or Kathryn A. Sutton 210-656-7636 Physicians Who Care Announces Goals For 1998-1999: To oppose ERISA and to expand its educational activities Physicians Who Care, a national non-profit organization that was founded more than ten years ago to defend patients’ rights, recently announced that one of it main goals this year is to oppose ERISA. At a recent meeting in San Diego, Dr. Ronald Bronow, newly elected president of Physicians Who Care, announced, "We are declaring war on ERISA." The 1974 ERISA Act allows HMOs to improperly deny care to our patients without risk of lawsuit. Dr. Bronow continued, "Corporate executives and medical directors now run these plans without fear of penalty. This allows non-physicians to make medical decisions, allowing corporate executives and bean counters to say they are not denying care, they are only denying payment." On the PBS program Life and Times and in an essay on the Physicians Who Care Web page, Bronow says, "HMOs are now brainwashing physicians into becoming robodocs." Dr. Bronow explained, "With this indoctrination accomplished, physicians routinely lie to patients about the need for testing, surgery or consultations. Previously, good doctors are now corporate puppets. The puppeteers have had great success in pulling the strings of their physicians. We in Physicians Who Care believe that every physician should be allowed to do his or her best." Dr. Bronow emphasized, "We do not accept capitation, an immoral and unethical mode of payment, where physicians are rewarded for providing less care." Dr. Bronow stated, "We physicians should stop selling our souls to the HMOs devils and begin protecting out patients' rights. If HMOs persist in killing and injuring our patients, let them be responsible for their acts in a court of law. To accomplish this, it is essential that ERISA be amended." Physicians Who Care's second major goal is to expand its patient education program. Physicians Who Care has been the major national physicians organization to organize and educate patients in its auxiliary organization Patients Who Care. Members of Physicians Who Care can sign their patients at no cost as members of Patients Who Care whose current membership is approximately 30,000 The patients are activists and are a powerful weapon in the fight for quality health care and patients’ rights. At the current time, Physicians Who Care has a well-known presence on the World Wide Web sites. The sites have received the attention of national media and have received many awards, including the “Times Pick” from the Los Angeles Times for their HMO page. The Physicians Who Care page averages over 1300 hits a day. The “HMO” page serves even more with an average of more than 2900 hits a day. The third one, the “MSA” page receives almost 200 hits per day. In a few weeks, Physicians Who Care will add a fourth page designed especially for patients. Dr. Seth Spotnitz, a past president of Physicians Who Care, who manages the Web pages said, "We are excited about our new 'patients' site and believe it will receive even greater attention than our current pages." To browse Physicians Who Care's Web pages got to the following addresses: http://www.pwc.org, http://www.hmopage.org, and http://www.msapage.org. In addition to its Internet sites, Physicians Who Care maintains a managed care hotline that patients who are experiencing difficulties with HMO or insurance companies may call. Every call is answered. Guidelines and a list of resources are sent to patients. Dr. Stephen C. Cohen, out-going president of Physicians Who Care said, "We have helped thousands of patients through the red tape of getting referrals, necessary lab tests, and high quality medical care." He went on to say that the complaints received ranged from having to wait weeks for an appointment to being denied urgent medical treatment (usually by denial of the insurance company to pay for the treatment). The hotline number to voice a complaint and/or receive the guidelines is 1-800-800-5154. All messages are confidential. Physicians Who Care has over 3,500 physician members, most in the private practice of medicine. Dr. Bronow stated, "Our members are committed to the goals of protecting patients' rights, supporting the traditional doctor-patient relationship, and ensuring quality health care." -30- ________________________________________________________________ >>For those ________________________________________________________________ >>For thwho are interested in this organization. Robert Modugno MD FACOG Roswell, Ga Return-Path: <owner-pwc-docs@pwc.org> Received: from relay14.mx.aol.com (relay14.mail.aol.com [172.31.109.14]) by air08.mail.aol.com (v49.4) with SMTP; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:47:38 2000 Received: from taz.fni.com (taz.fni.com [204.181.104.131]) by relay14.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id KAA05508; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:47:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns1.fni.com (ns1.fni.com [204.181.104.1]) by taz.fni.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA13716; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:43:31 -0500 Received: by ns1.fni.com (TLB v0.10a (1.23 tibbs 1997/01/09 00:29:32)); Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:44:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ns1.fni.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22999; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:44:01 -0500 Received: from endeavor.flash.net (endeavor.flash.net [209.30.0.40]) by ns1.fni.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22995 for <pwc-docs@pwc.org>; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:43:59 -0500 Received: from pwcorg (ip232.san-antonio5.tx.pub-ip.psi.net [38.27.174.232]) by endeavor.flash.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA12271 for <pwc-docs@pwc.org>; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:43:46 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808271443.JAA12271@endeavor.flash.net> X-Sender: pwcorg@pop.flash.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:41:54 -0500 To: pwc-docs@pwc.org From: Physicians Who Care <pwcorg@flash.net> Subject: [PWC-Members] Press Release Sender: owner-pwc-docs@pwc.org Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit August 25, 1998 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Information: Ronald Bronow, M.D. 310-656-5692 or Kathryn A. Sutton 210-656-7636 -- Physicians Who Care Announces Goals For 1998-1999: To oppose ERISA and to expand its educational activities Physicians Who Care, a national non-profit organization that was founded more than ten years ago to defend patients’ rights, recently announced that one of it main goals this year is to oppose ERISA. At a recent meeting in San Diego, Dr. Ronald Bronow, newly elected president of Physicians Who Care, announced, "We are declaring war on ERISA." The 1974 ERISA Act allows HMOs to improperly deny care to our patients without risk of lawsuit. Dr. Bronow continued, "Corporate executives and medical directors now run these plans without fear of penalty. This allows non-physicians to make medical decisions, allowing corporate executives and bean counters to say they are not denying care, they are only denying payment." On the PBS program Life and Times and in an essay on the Physicians Who Care Web page, Bronow says, "HMOs are now brainwashing physicians into becoming robodocs." Dr. Bronow explained, "With this indoctrination accomplished, physicians routinely lie to patients about the need for testing, surgery or consultations. Previously, good doctors are now corporate puppets. The puppeteers have had great success in pulling the strings of their physicians. We in Physicians Who Care believe that every physician should be allowed to do his or her best." Dr. Bronow emphasized, "We do not accept capitation, an immoral and unethical mode of payment, where physicians are rewarded for providing less care." Dr. Bronow stated, "We physicians should stop selling our souls to the HMOs devils and begin protecting out patients' rights. If HMOs persist in killing and injuring our patients, let them be responsible for their acts in a court of law. To accomplish this, it is essential that ERISA be amended." Physicians Who Care's second major goal is to expand its patient education program. Physicians Who Care has been the major national physicians organization to organize and educate patients in its auxiliary organization Patients Who Care. Members of Physicians Who Care can sign their patients at no cost as members of Patients Who Care whose current membership is approximately 30,000 The patients are activists and are a powerful weapon in the fight for quality health care and patients’ rights. At the current time, Physicians Who Care has a well-known presence on the World Wide Web sites. The sites have received the attention of national media and have received many awards, including the “Times Pick” from the Los Angeles Times for their HMO page. The Physicians Who Care page averages over 1300 hits a day. The “HMO” page serves even more with an average of more than 2900 hits a day. The third one, the “MSA” page receives almost 200 hits per day. In a few weeks, Physicians Who Care will add a fourth page designed especially for patients. Dr. Seth Spotnitz, a past president of Physicians Who Care, who manages the Web pages said, "We are excited about our new 'patients' site and believe it will receive even greater attention than our current pages." To browse Physicians Who Care's Web pages got to the following addresses: http://www.pwc.org, http://www.hmopage.org, and http://www.msapage.org. In addition to its Internet sites, Physicians Who Care maintains a managed care hotline that patients who are experiencing difficulties with HMO or insurance companies may call. Every call is answered. Guidelines and a list of resources are sent to patients. Dr. Stephen C. Cohen, out-going president of Physicians Who Care said, "We have helped thousands of patients through the red tape of getting referrals, necessary lab tests, and high quality medical care." He went on to say that the complaints received ranged from having to wait weeks for an appointment to being denied urgent medical treatment (usually by denial of the insurance company to pay for the treatment). The hotline number to voice a complaint and/or receive the guidelines is 1-800-800-5154. All messages are confidential. Physicians Who Care has over 3,500 physician members, most in the private practice of medicine. Dr. Bronow stated, "Our members are committed to the goals of protecting patients' rights, supporting the traditional doctor-patient relationship, and ensuring quality health care." -30- Next message: Peter Wein: "Re: OB:Home Births in Australia" Previous message: Betsy Hyde: "Re: OB:Home Births in Australia"

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