I still say until they are willing to completely get out of the way, drugs, treatment, prior auths, tests and all the rest you guys are overly glorified employees. They are making some of your most important medical choices or forcing you in a certain direction...
Now they want to hold you accountable for the outcome no less??? BULLCCHIT! And I have yet to hear a good answer to my idea of docs who are paid to see less patients, slow down and ask lots of follow up questions, probe for data that might be useless until years later when something pops up, this is quality. Where was all their concern about quality until they wanted to take your last good dollar? While Henry Ford (facsict pig) was speeding up the assembly line to in-human pace? All I ever see in the Medical Managment Mags (rags???) is "speed up and see more patients. That is the answer to all financial troubles. Bull!
We need to insist on being paid what you folks are really worth, ESPECIALLY the Office Visit! Stop devaluing the office visit, for this is where the rubber meets the road. Let you guys slow down and we'll get all the quality we can handle.
And never forget, what one gets paid for what type of work, no less how and what is measured, is in it's very nature a "Labor Management" issue that should be hammered out via collective bargining, especially when negotiating with an "F'ing" CARTEL!!! I was just talking to Nancy about this thought the other day... Each and everyone one of these CARTELS has their own formulars, their own list of allowed or not allowed treatments, step therapies, P4P measures, billing, payment and bundling policies, and they are all so self-rightous about it all.... Well my question is as follows: If they are all different, how can each and everyone one of them be so "Right"? It's like the religous nuts, only their way to god is right, the rest of us are all going to roast in hell.
Everyone post your clip art from Al anywhere and everywhere you can.... CARTEL, CARTEL, CARTEL!!!!
