Adam,
Be bolder and more true to your beliefs my friend. This is just the problem, docs just keep back peddling hoping something later on will change. They will keep coming after each and every one of you until you say "ENOUGH ALREADY!!!". Is this a Capt Ahab moment or one of enough is enough already, but Nancy and I are starting to talk about ways to survive more and more off of the grid and to promote it as it really is:
The only way to keep these invasive SOB's out of your charts, and our relationship with you. Yes some patients won't be able to afford it, but we must preserve the sactity of that examroom and those charts, plan and simple. Do you really want to be known as a collaborator??? That is how I see it. We are no longer giving any shots so as not to have to comply with the new NYS vaccine reggie. Let the patients go to the health dept in droves bitching and screaming. Will it hurt, yes, but not as much as destroying our constitutional rights of privacy, medical or otherwise.
Yes it won't be easy, just ask Vinny, he losses money to his largest carrier in his area too, but he refuses to give in to them on this invasive, let us look at your records all of the time mentality. It is tough sometime to stand up for your beliefs but if we don't do it and real soon, there will be nothing left to fight for, because they have taken way too much already. This is the begining of the end, mark my words my dear friends. P4P is the death of us all and the death of decent healthcare as we know it. Did the schools improve with marking, setting and recording standards and data with no A$$hole left behind??? Why should it be any better for healhcare then? Teaching to the test or treating to hit some mark on a chart is no different. You just can't quantify this stuff properly in real world, day to day art of, free willed, still smoking, not resting, eating garbage, not exersicing, meds denied, treatments denied system. But you sure can use it to count those beans and reduce providers payments.
In the words of Jean Luke Piccard (I have quoted this one at least once before, but I love it so) when talking about the Borg always advancing taking more, Everytime they attack, they loose another world, and retreat, over and over again. "The line in the sand must be drawn here!" Bitch loud and clear and resist, resist, resist.....
Good Night and Good Luck,
Paul
