By the way Gee I agree with you that docs especially PCP's need to get it together and take a unified stand. One without the turncoats of the Major Medical Societies and the AMA.
BIG FYI: I was just reading that healthcare blog. If any of you think for a moment that the AMA has even a lick of concern about you PCP's and other office visit based type pratices like Endo's and the like, think again and then never again. The RUC, that is the committee that makes up the values behind the RVU's that value or in your case De-value your work, is stacked the the hilt. It turns out that 25 of the 29 members on the RUC are specialists. So let's see, a frational proportion of 4/29 to 25/29. Gee that sounds about as fair and balanced as FOX Noise political reporting.
And you thought I was just making this stuff up about these RVU's and the like. It is not just the carriers or the government that is attempting to screw primaries, it is as much if not more because of traitors from within you own ranks. And then these same specialists as I have spoken to before that then take over your IPA's and PO's to make sure that you have contracts that are like Nancy's with one of the majors, 125% of present day Medicare for office visits and other E&M codes, 135% of present day Medicare for procedural codes. I kid you not and I have heard the same from other organization or other docs bitching across the country. So they are then doubling the insult and slap in your face with the land grab while you guys barely scrap by on the table scraps...
