OK, time to rant again.
I just met with my Merk rep and was told that physicians can no longer bill Medicare for the administration of the Zostavax. Medicare will pay Krogers or Walgreen's or other non-physician entities to administer it under Medicare Part D, but not physicians. I have been prescribing a bunch of this as I believe it is a tremendous benefit, but no more. I had no expectations of making a killing off of administering it and was quite content just being able to cover my administration costs but I'll be damned if I'll grease someone else's pocket when I am legally prevented from getting the same opportunity to bill for a service. Once again our government has regulated health care to prevent healthy care.
Leslie, who is trying hard not to have an angina attack.
