Procedures are reimbursement kings

October 13, 2006

Any surprise why outpatient surgery centers outnumber hospitals? If the same reimbursement emphasis was placed on primary care, there would also be a surplus.



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{ 2 comments }

1 pgbMD October 13, 2006 at 4:42 pm

Patients like the concierge like service in these smaller type facilities. The big monsterous hospitals are dinosaurs of the past.

2 anonymous October 13, 2006 at 11:12 pm

Agree. And when you need to add a case on, you don’t have to wait until the wee hours behind indigent knife-and-gun club members.

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