It never occurred to me about the windmills, but the donkey should have been a clue. That was a great article Leslie, and I have to share, about 20 years ago I had a friend who was a patient and he applied for some kind of insurance policy. (life or disablility) and listed me as his Dr. I got the forms to fill out, (you know the ones, twenty pages of twenty questions all about his history with me) I cautioned him that his back pain might be something he shouldn't have stirred up so he withdrew, (albeit informally) his permission for me to respond. I got three letters which I ignored. Then my partner got a letter, " Dear Dr. Scott, We notice you have the same address as Dr. Sechrist. He has repeatedly failed to respond to our request to help his patient complete this insurance application and we wonder IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO HIS RECORDS AND COULD FORWARD COPIES OF THE CHART! Nice.
But there is two sides to this argument. With AC we have our OWN database. In our very own office today my partner was informed that he had not done well on an audit, his patients have too many referrals for the rating of how sick they are. He selected two names he recognized, opened the record in AC and could instantly show what the diagnosis were in the record, and that the auditor had failed to do an adequate job. He sent them packing. It was great. We have the data!
You can hide under the bed, but they are still coming for us. With AC and the proper use of the database you are armed with a big stick. Life is good again.
