Dr. Rob with more insight on the billing and coding mess. I like the cooked frog analogy:
A discussion of the current situation leads to the question: how did we get to this point? The system did not appear out of the air; no one was forced to accept it at gunpoint. The change was slow.I have heard that if you drop a frog into a pot of hot water, it will try to jump out. If, however, you put the frog in warm water and heat it up slowly, you end up with a cooked frog. In the same way, what seemed to be a reasonable system has gotten terribly out of control and is now cooking us.
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Incredible insight elliot
It is nice to see someone be willing to talk outloud about how procedure based billing has undermined quality care and professionalism. Doctors should just charge for time like other professionals. We did this to ourselves.
Elliot seems to be like one of those spam posters with little to offer, and just senseless entries. Kevin, why don’t you just block his posts if he has nothing to contribute, either pro or con to your posts?
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