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Re: OB: Ultrasound Billing From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Fri Mar 5 07:24:32 1999 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Ricardo Savaris: "Dispaurenia after perineoplasty - update" Previous message: W. Brown: "Re: OB: Ultrasound Billing" In reply to: W. Brown: "Re: OB: Ultrasound Billing" definite overkill. additional problems - time consuming and a risk management nightmare - the missed anomaly. "all those sonograms and this was NOT picked up!" Art "Of course that's just my opinion. I could be wrong." - Dennis Miller At Fri, 5 Mar 1999, W. Brown wrote: > >>In a message dated 3/4/99 9:35:40 PM, suzannep@mindspring.com writes: >> >><< One of our local docs does an ultrasound at every visit for every >>patient.>> >> >>Okay, follow this argument: >> >>When you "see" a patient, what do you do? You actually LOOK at them. And if >>you're in Pediatrics, you look at them, weigh them, and measure them. >> >>Okay, so now you have TWO patients.... Why, if you have the capability, >>wouldn't you MEASURE the fetus, LOOK at it, WEIGH it (sort of goes hand in >>hand with measuring it), and generally treat it as you would any patient? >>Joe P. > >Interesting idea . . . >But I think the idea of evaluating the fetus sonographically (adequately) >at every OB visit a bit impractical, unless one sees very few patients each >day. Also remember the variability and accurracy of ultrasound in the >third trimester (+/- 2 to 3 weeks), which renders reliable interpretation >of "measurements" impossible when patients are scanned at < 3-week >intervals. >Would appreciate hearing comments about this issue from T. Dubose or other >sonographers. > >-- >******************** >W. Brown, M.D. >Bay area >Northern California >USA >buzzerIII@pol.net > >******************** > -- art fougner, md SonoScan/Genetic Sciences forest hills, ny evsono@pipeline.com Next message: Ricardo Savaris: "Dispaurenia after perineoplasty - update" Previous message: W. Brown: "Re: OB: Ultrasound Billing" In reply to: W. Brown: "Re: OB: Ultrasound Billing"

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