Comments on: It’s tough rating doctors http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/its-tough-rating-doctors.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/its-tough-rating-doctors.html/comment-page-1#comment-71468 Anonymous Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:57:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/02/its-tough-rating-doctors.html#comment-71468 They still can't pay claims reliably and they have been doing that for 60 years. The notion that they can now take on this new, much more complex task and get it right is absurd.<br/><br/>The problem is they don't have to get it right, they only have to sell the idea to the public. The consequences of the fact that is a sham do not fall on them. They still can’t pay claims reliably and they have been doing that for 60 years. The notion that they can now take on this new, much more complex task and get it right is absurd.

The problem is they don’t have to get it right, they only have to sell the idea to the public. The consequences of the fact that is a sham do not fall on them.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/its-tough-rating-doctors.html/comment-page-1#comment-71449 Anonymous Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:57:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/02/its-tough-rating-doctors.html#comment-71449 I check every one of the "report cards" I get from the insurance companies, mamograms, paps, screening test and to date the information is more than 90% wrong!. I always write back to tell them about it. Usually it is either a patient that I have either not seen for over a year or seen only for a problem visit not an annual "wellness checkup." I am still waiting form my first appology or corection. I check every one of the “report cards” I get from the insurance companies, mamograms, paps, screening test and to date the information is more than 90% wrong!. I always write back to tell them about it. Usually it is either a patient that I have either not seen for over a year or seen only for a problem visit not an annual “wellness checkup.” I am still waiting form my first appology or corection.

]]> By: Gasman http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/its-tough-rating-doctors.html/comment-page-1#comment-71443 Gasman Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:28:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/02/its-tough-rating-doctors.html#comment-71443 my biggest complaint about these rating systems is that they tend to report docs who rate poorly on their assessment identically with docs who have insufficient data to make a rating. <br />Insufficient data is the insurers problem and should not be lumped together with sufficient data showing poor ratings. The docs with small numbers of a particular insurer will never get adequate numbers for data and will have their few patients bled away by the untrue allegation of poor care. my biggest complaint about these rating systems is that they tend to report docs who rate poorly on their assessment identically with docs who have insufficient data to make a rating.
Insufficient data is the insurers problem and should not be lumped together with sufficient data showing poor ratings. The docs with small numbers of a particular insurer will never get adequate numbers for data and will have their few patients bled away by the untrue allegation of poor care.

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