Comments on: Is the ABIM good for nothing? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/02/is-abim-good-for-nothing.html medical blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:35:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/02/is-abim-good-for-nothing.html/comment-page-1#comment-83761 Anonymous Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/02/is-the-abim-good-for-nothing.html#comment-83761 Anyone got surveyed by ABIM about the proposal for a new "comprehensive provider" certification?<br/><br/>Being a certifying body...ABIM's "solution" to every crisis is develop more certification exams.<br/><br/>Great skill at self-perpetuation [like parasites].<br/><br/>Continuing to divide and conquer the internists it supposedly "supports" thru prestigious "board certification" eats at the core of the profession [like a disease].<br/><br/>ABIM is like a parasitic disease that will kill its own host in implosion, before long.<br/><br/>Helpless internists go along and recertify and support the ABIM and all the peripherals of the assessment INDUSTRY anyway. Anyone got surveyed by ABIM about the proposal for a new “comprehensive provider” certification?

Being a certifying body…ABIM’s “solution” to every crisis is develop more certification exams.

Great skill at self-perpetuation [like parasites].

Continuing to divide and conquer the internists it supposedly “supports” thru prestigious “board certification” eats at the core of the profession [like a disease].

ABIM is like a parasitic disease that will kill its own host in implosion, before long.

Helpless internists go along and recertify and support the ABIM and all the peripherals of the assessment INDUSTRY anyway.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/02/is-abim-good-for-nothing.html/comment-page-1#comment-83755 Anonymous Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:36:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/02/is-the-abim-good-for-nothing.html#comment-83755 Oops, in my 10:12 comment I didn't mean to say "provider." I meant to say "doctor." You see how I've been brainwashed? Oops, in my 10:12 comment I didn’t mean to say “provider.” I meant to say “doctor.” You see how I’ve been brainwashed?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/02/is-abim-good-for-nothing.html/comment-page-1#comment-83753 Anonymous Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/02/is-the-abim-good-for-nothing.html#comment-83753 So now it's insulting to be "equal" to family medicine? What does that mean? If internists want to get the word out that primary care is the foundation of good medicine and should be valued accordingly, it would seem counterproductive to undervalue other primary care providers. Just my take (and I'm an ER doctor.) So now it’s insulting to be “equal” to family medicine? What does that mean? If internists want to get the word out that primary care is the foundation of good medicine and should be valued accordingly, it would seem counterproductive to undervalue other primary care providers. Just my take (and I’m an ER doctor.)

]]> By: Happyman http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/02/is-abim-good-for-nothing.html/comment-page-1#comment-83742 Happyman Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:28:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/02/is-the-abim-good-for-nothing.html#comment-83742 the same is true with the ACP - totally USELESS to boarded internists, & perhaps even detrimental. Today they sent out a blast email touting that primary care "provider" numbers have grown, thanks to IMG's and physician assistants/NPs.<br/><br/><br/>I don't know which is worse - lumping foreign medical grads (ie. DOCTORS) in with NPs, or dumbing me down to a "provider".<br/><br/>When our professional societies do this, primary care is truly doomed. the same is true with the ACP – totally USELESS to boarded internists, & perhaps even detrimental. Today they sent out a blast email touting that primary care “provider” numbers have grown, thanks to IMG’s and physician assistants/NPs.

I don’t know which is worse – lumping foreign medical grads (ie. DOCTORS) in with NPs, or dumbing me down to a “provider”.

When our professional societies do this, primary care is truly doomed.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/02/is-abim-good-for-nothing.html/comment-page-1#comment-83739 Anonymous Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/02/is-the-abim-good-for-nothing.html#comment-83739 Ditto for OB/Gyn. It's a speciality. Ditto for OB/Gyn. It’s a speciality.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/02/is-abim-good-for-nothing.html/comment-page-1#comment-83735 Anonymous Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:37:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/02/is-the-abim-good-for-nothing.html#comment-83735 I'd never seen that before. Is the writer saying Aetna is paying different rates for the SAME service?<br/><br/>If the gastroenterologist performs a 99213 E+M service, it's 115% of Medicare, but if a general internist performs a 99213 E+M service it's 105% of Medicare?<br/><br/>The gastroenterologist may perform a consultative service which is paid more, but it's a different billing code. Is the writer saying there are two different pay rates for the SAME service? I’d never seen that before. Is the writer saying Aetna is paying different rates for the SAME service?

If the gastroenterologist performs a 99213 E+M service, it’s 115% of Medicare, but if a general internist performs a 99213 E+M service it’s 105% of Medicare?

The gastroenterologist may perform a consultative service which is paid more, but it’s a different billing code. Is the writer saying there are two different pay rates for the SAME service?

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