Comments on: CJD guest-blogs on This Makes Me Sick http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: emilyhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65638 emily Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65638 AMA stats on indebtedness of doctors:<br/>http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/5349.html AMA stats on indebtedness of doctors:
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/5349.html

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65613 Anonymous Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65613 I think it is about time to lobby my state government to provide the option of outsourced healthcare for major non-emergency procedures for state employees as a method of cost reduction. I think it is about time to lobby my state government to provide the option of outsourced healthcare for major non-emergency procedures for state employees as a method of cost reduction.

]]> By: Diorahttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65609 Diora Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65609 <i>One wonders how many patients if offered the choice of using a non-US (state) licensed radiologist (with limited rights to sue)at substantially lower cost vs. a US (state)licensed radiologist at much higher cost but with a greater opportunity to sue would choose the former?</i><br/>Depends on the insurance. Considering that there is "medical tourism" to other countries, a substantial number of uninsured probably will. One wonders how many patients if offered the choice of using a non-US (state) licensed radiologist (with limited rights to sue)at substantially lower cost vs. a US (state)licensed radiologist at much higher cost but with a greater opportunity to sue would choose the former?
Depends on the insurance. Considering that there is “medical tourism” to other countries, a substantial number of uninsured probably will.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65597 Anonymous Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:29:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65597 "The savings can be sizable. A coronary artery bypass surgery costs about $6,500 at Apollo Hospitals in India, Milstein estimated. The average price in California is $60,400." “The savings can be sizable. A coronary artery bypass surgery costs about $6,500 at Apollo Hospitals in India, Milstein estimated. The average price in California is $60,400.”

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65596 Anonymous Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65596 Interestingly enough, the LA Times has a front page article on offshore healthcare options for employers. Interestingly enough, the LA Times has a front page article on offshore healthcare options for employers.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65593 Anonymous Sun, 30 Jul 2006 04:23:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65593 According to the Dept. of Labor, the avg. physician makes $150K a year, the avg. surgeon $250K. <br/><br/>Can anyone give a cite to the average amount of debt of these two? If you can't, then let's quit using the high debt number and the lower paid number. According to the Dept. of Labor, the avg. physician makes $150K a year, the avg. surgeon $250K.

Can anyone give a cite to the average amount of debt of these two? If you can’t, then let’s quit using the high debt number and the lower paid number.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65591 Anonymous Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:17:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65591 Is it the ATLA as much as it is the ACR that is standing in the way of outsourcing? The former can always go after the hospital (deeper pockets) than the individual foreign radiologist. One wonders how many patients if offered the choice of using a non-US (state) licensed radiologist (with limited rights to sue)at substantially lower cost vs. a US (state)licensed radiologist at much higher cost but with a greater opportunity to sue would choose the former? Is it the ATLA as much as it is the ACR that is standing in the way of outsourcing? The former can always go after the hospital (deeper pockets) than the individual foreign radiologist. One wonders how many patients if offered the choice of using a non-US (state) licensed radiologist (with limited rights to sue)at substantially lower cost vs. a US (state)licensed radiologist at much higher cost but with a greater opportunity to sue would choose the former?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65590 Anonymous Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:39:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65590 The problem anon isn't that outsourcing noninterventional rad is a problem (it isn't). The question is who are the lawyer's going to sue? Nighthawks and other such organizations are all US certified docs. Until the "legal" aspects are worked out (if ever) most rad won't go overseas. The problem anon isn’t that outsourcing noninterventional rad is a problem (it isn’t). The question is who are the lawyer’s going to sue? Nighthawks and other such organizations are all US certified docs. Until the “legal” aspects are worked out (if ever) most rad won’t go overseas.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65589 Anonymous Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:45:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65589 Oddly enough, the interpretive aspect of radiology would be one of the areas of clinical medicine that would be ripe for overseas outsourcing were clinical medicine subject to the same economic factors as most other white collar professions. Oddly enough, the interpretive aspect of radiology would be one of the areas of clinical medicine that would be ripe for overseas outsourcing were clinical medicine subject to the same economic factors as most other white collar professions.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65587 Anonymous Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:30:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/07/cjd-guest-blogs-on-this-makes-me-sick.html#comment-65587 "what the public sometimes thinks are excessive earnings."<br/><br/>I doubt "the public" in general thinks $100,000 is excessive. The perception of "overpaid" probably comes from the incomes earned by specialists. I ran across an ad for a radiologist not long ago which listed the starting salary at $400,000, and after two years, clinic partnership and profit participation. This particular clinic association provides its own malpractice insurance as well, so I would think any accrued debts could be paid off pretty quickly. “what the public sometimes thinks are excessive earnings.”

I doubt “the public” in general thinks $100,000 is excessive. The perception of “overpaid” probably comes from the incomes earned by specialists. I ran across an ad for a radiologist not long ago which listed the starting salary at $400,000, and after two years, clinic partnership and profit participation. This particular clinic association provides its own malpractice insurance as well, so I would think any accrued debts could be paid off pretty quickly.

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