Thursday, November 30, 20062
"Everyone wants to be a plasticologist"
More doctors are leaving their fields for cosmetic medicine. Blame Medicare and third-party reimbursement for this:
Five years ago, cosmetic medicine was primarily the domain of plastic surgeons, facial surgeons and dermatologists — medical school graduates who undergo several years of training in facial skin and its underlying anatomy. But now obstetricians, family practitioners and emergency room physicians are gravitating to the beauty business, lured by lucrative cosmetic treatments that require same-day payments because they are not covered by insurance and by a medical practice without bothersome midnight emergency calls.
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Anonymous
this is reality. I'm starting a practice and I know to enjoy my profession and have a critically less hectic lifestyle, I need to add procedures.
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chelle
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Post a CommentBetter choice, do what I do best, practice good PCP medicine - but based on the reimburmments of procedures versus E&M - forget it. Want to change this, pay the PCP appropriately for what they do. 30 minute visit with 60 year male with HTN, and DM is worth MUCH MORE in many ways than liposuction or botox (cosmetic) or varicose veins.
So my choice, option 3:
concierge medicine. Patient pays me to be their doctor, their PCP, not the insruance companies.
DrA
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