In-network hospital, out-of-network doctor

“Oxford paid the hospital based on the lower, in-network rates, even though the insurer told Ms. Greco that the service was out of network.”

MMmm, talk about big brass one’s. Sorry, if the claims out of network, then it’s out of network. If I have to go to the extra work of collecting from the patient because of their silly policies, you can be I’m going to be compensated for it. You can’t have it both ways.

I seriously doubt this contract would stand up to judicial scrutiny. Patient needs to get nasty.

Troll, are you talking about an ortho grossing 350? Lesse, 350k – 80k (malpractice) – 70k (decent OM) – say 6-10% (billing service) – 100k (other employees) – heck we’re just about out of money and we haven’t gotten to professional fees, CEU’s, student debt, medical supplies, office supplies, lights, rent, utilities, etc etc etc. Yeah, damn those greedy physicians who think they have a right to make a decent living. Here’s a new fee schedule you’ll probably feel comfortable with:
Physical = 1 dozen eggs or 1 young chicken.
Sick visit (all tonics included) = 1 chicken, 1/2 pound of beef or 3 rabbits.
Minor surgery = 1 goat, 2 rabbits.
Major surgery = 1 cow/camel/llama, or 16 goats (2 male) and 5 chickens.
Month long stay in the hospital = eldest daughter, 3 cows, 2 camels and 6 goats (1 male).

Al Quida? Is that anything like Al Qaeda? I wonder if Godwin’s Law has an Al Qaeda corollary. Really, that should be the AQA, then. You’d think we’d here more of this blackmailing business.

Before the sun comes out and you have to crawl back into your mother’s basement, you might want to stop by a book store and pick up a dikshonery.

One can slap the letters “MD” after the name of some trailer trash southern “doctor” but one can’t stop them from thinking of the word “sister” when the word “wife” is mentioned.

As far as the second Anon goes… Who are you trying to fool with your facetious description of the gross income, expenses and after-expense income? The 350K is the after expense income you twit. The sheeple may be stupid and idiotic when it comes to physician idolatry, but even the most sister sexing southern trailer trash (with or without the MD after the name) should be able to figure out even the most bottom of the barrel orthopod performing even the most of nominal of procedures is brining in an order of magnitude (if not two) beyond six figures for the practice.

In the final calculus, more people need to see and pay these exorbitant “surgeon’s fees” before they develop a clue.

Yeah. That is exactly what it is. Not supporting the rights of the medical monopoly to continue with its raping and pillage must mean that one is delusional. One can only surmise that the same logic was used in 1930s Germany when it came to those that did not support the NDSP. American allopathic medicine is a wonderful example regarding the lack of logical ability and intellect when it comes to the American population. Supporting the current system with its two-bit charlatan pracitioners that pull the wool over the eyes of the general public with one hand with claims of gallant egalitarianism while using the other hand to commit malpractice, carve out special laws for themselves and rob the public blind. More people should have to pay for their own healthcare. When it comes to the bovine-like idiots of the American populace, nothing works better than the cattle prod of realizing that the surgeons are billing at thousands of dollars per hour.

Anon 12:58

Does the fecal excratory aspect of a horse place undue importance on any profession and allow itself to be fiscally sodomized by its practitioners secondary to vapid claims of “do no harm” or comparable idiotic notions of gallant agalitarianism? One would supsect not. On this basis then, the asses of horses is far superior to the vast mass of idiots of the general American populace that are enamored with their physician idolatry and medical worship.

He’s not a high school student; he’s just another underemployed plaintiff’s attorney who wishes more fat ladies would slip on the wet spot at the local Piggly Wiggly.