The insurance companies play Shoots and Ladders with physician reimbursement:
They accomplish this by employing byzantine rules, by strictly enforcing unintelligible requirements that shift like the sands, by establishing arcane appeals processes, and, when all else fails, by generating a series of black holes into which claims mysteriously disappear, so that (if the doctor still insists on being paid) the claims process must be initiated all over again. Call it the “Shoots and Ladders” model of claims processing.
(via retired doc)
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Irony, thou art a physician.
I’m pretty sure the game was called “Chutes and Ladders” and I fail to see the joke in calling it “Shoots and Ladders”. Am I missing something?
anon 10:50
what does that even mean? I hate these “smartest guys in the room” egomaniacs who think they’re writing Shakespeare, and just make no sense. Insurance companies scewing doctors isn’t ironic, it’s criminal. And if you can just explain it away by saying “Oh gee, they brought it on themselves”, instead of saying “Boy, that is criminal behavior” then you’re just part of the problem. In which case, you should get lost.
Mike, you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. All the sudden you discover the insurance industry is deceptive? Sure didn’t bother you when you were trying to screw patients who were injured, did it? So your insurer could save a few dollars and hopefully give you a little more back in premiums.
You don’t mind closing the courthouse door to people injured by your negligence, but I bet you wouldn’t like to have an “insurance court” where adjusters got to decide if these claims by disgruntled doctors had merit, would you?
Can I get twenty million dollars when the insurance company stiffs me a hundred?
Give them your ability to walk, talk, and piss without using a catheter, and you just might!
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