If they can get around HIPAA, it may be worth trying. Being able to bill 18 visits in 90 minutes is worth the expense. Typically only 6 patients are scheduled individually during that time.
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I wouldn’t like it. I wouldn’t want my medical information shared in front of a group of other patients. That, and there would always be the patients that come in and monopolize that 90 minutes believing their problems are the most important. For those patients that want it, or if docs want to go that route with Medicaid patients then fine by me. I wouldn’t sign up, though.
Also, 90 minutes/18 patients = 5 minutes a patient. With the added disincentive of having to sit through 85 of those minutes listening to 17 other patients’ lab results. Sounds like it would pretty much suck.
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