Was the reimbursement of his hemorrhoid procedure related to the treatment he received from his physicians?
While Beck is being tight-lipped as to the exact surgery he underwent, he calls it a “routine” outpatient surgery, so there’s a good chance it was a lackluster procedure that had a low reimbursement rate attached to it. That would mean that the surgeons who worked on Beck had an incentive to sew him up ASAP in order to move on to more lucrative procedures. When it comes to reimbursements for doctors, there’s a hierarchy to medical procedures, and if you’re at the bottom of it, God help you.
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“When it comes to reimbursements for doctors, there’s a hierarchy to medical procedures, and if you’re at the bottom of it, God help you.”
Are you saying they forgot the hippocratic oath and are more concerned about the money then first do no harm? For the record I think Glen Beck is an idiot.
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