Kevin,
Hey those W/A employees are our patients and that pays the bills around here...Just kidding (lol). W/A is only about 20-30 minutes away from here in Skinny @$$ as we like to say. Hey I officiate their kids on the weekends so the jokes on them, right? "Don't like the New Standard; there's the box." Yeah their stuff is extremely expensive. Besides temp and B/P what other things can this thing do??? Pulse O2 and the like? Anything else? Just wondering if it is really worth the price of admission. But saved time is always nice...And who's disposables does it use???
Has anyone else heard about the new "improved" W/A CleanSpecs? Goodness knows what they actually did to the things, but now these too are more expensive. And on a procedure and codes that half those no good carriers want to pay for... It's only cervical cancer. The federal gov't only started all of CLIA because of bad issues surrounding PAP smears. I gather you all get bundled on your women's wellcare visits too. The CPE is the only thing paid for while most of them lop off the G & Q codes. If you don't care to pay a licensed professional to do it then let Harry down at the quicklube collect your pap. "Hey lady get on the Lift....Watch your step...Going up...."
But it's like everything else in this new soon to be mandated high tech stuff. Everybody is asking for it, everybody claims to want it (at least the carriers and the gov't do) but who wants to pay for it??? You are right to want to not pay for it. People pay for what they value and they don't pay for what they don't. Let them start to pay, then we'll all do something about it. I guess that means most people no longer apperciate PCP's...That's very sad. Look at my "Cornell" posting.
Good Night and Good Luck,
Paul
