It ’s time this country wakes up.
Analysis: How Your Beloved Hospital Helps To Drive Up Health Care Costs
It’s easy to criticize pharmaceutical and insurance companies. But we spend much more on hospitals.
khn.org (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - September 7, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Noyac Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
How much money have you spent/received on disability/life insurance?
I'm trying to figure out how much money the insurance companies make off of doctors.
Personally, I've never heard of docs ever having to use it over their entire careers.
$2000/month is what I hear people pay for same specialty coverage, kicks in at 6 months of disability, no maximums.
$2000/month, over 30 years = $720,000.
Invested at 6%, it would be worth $2,000,000 after 30 years.
At what age do people stop paying their premiums?
As a correlary, do people still buy life...
How much money have you spent/received on disability/life insurance? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - September 5, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Mikkel Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
Walmart to open a DENTAL clinic.
Walmart hired executives from insurance companies to help lead dental services under Walmart Health program.
“.... first appointments are available on Sept. 13”
Walmart tests dentistry and mental care as it moves deeper into primary health
A clinic in Georgia, called Walmart Health, will offer hearing tests, counseling sessions and vision tests, as well as mental health support.
www.cnbc.com (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - August 30, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Cold Front Tags: Dental Source Type: forums
Practicing Pod w/ Partial/no Residency
This topic has been discussed a few times as I have found. But I want to know for sure (a lot of uncertainty I’ve detected in past posts) if one can practice podiatry w/o residency in one of the four states which don’t require a residency : Hawaii, Connecticut, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. Two main issues to be discussed: competing with residency-trained DPM’s and being reimbursed from insurance companies. I wouldn’t think many resident trained DPM’s would want to compete for a spot in a...
Practicing Pod w/ Partial/no Residency (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - August 10, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: DedosdelosPies Tags: Podiatric Residents & Physicians Source Type: forums
Story: Trinity Health sues anesthesiology group
Trinity Health sues anesthesiology group amid insurer rate disputes
Alleged rate disputes between Anesthesia Associates of Ann Arbor and several insurers could cause Trinity to lose patients, incur significant administrative expenses and inflate patients' out-of-pocket costs, according to a new lawsuit.
t.co
Interesting times. Feels good to be a partner in a physician owned group that will never entertain the prospect of selling. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - July 28, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: okayplayer Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
Getting a lawyer involved to speed up physician insurance panel credentialing?
I read somewhere once, perhaps here on SDN, that somebody was having a VERY long wait getting approved for a local insurance panel. They got a lawyer involved and the insurance company credentialed the physician immediately. Anybody have any such experience or can point me to the relevant thread, if it exists? Maybe I'm imagining it.... (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - July 25, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Ligament Tags: Pain Medicine Source Type: forums
Balance and surprising billing Trojan horse to gut reimbursement in general?
Congress Is About to Give Health Insurance Companies the Nuclear Weapon in the War on Physicians
The benchmark solution intended to eliminate balance billing will lead to the collapse of the commercial insurance market negotiations with physicians who work in hospitals and drive reimbursement to the lowest levels.
www.highyieldscript.com
Saw this on the white coat investor forums. Many feel this is the Trojan horse insurances are trying to sneak into law to gut broader reimbursement. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - July 19, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: myrandom2003 Tags: Pain Medicine Source Type: forums
NYT: Trump Signs Hospital HOPD Price Transparency Exec Order...
The possible downstream implications for Pain Medicine are huge. A lot of guaranteed professional compensation is financed by site of service arbitrage. What will patients demand when they discover how much they've been ripped off??
A New Trump Order May Make More Health Care Prices Public
Hospitals and insurance companies will fight the order, which could reveal their secret negotiations.
www.nytimes.com
"Both hospital and insurer groups say that making prices public could le...
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 30, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: drusso Tags: Pain Medicine Source Type: forums
Can't afford health insurance and am stressed out
Hello,
So I am starting my first year of Medical School at ATSU-SOMA, and I was first misinformed that my health insurance through my job would continue a couple months after I left, but someone just told me that my benefits would end the day I left. Now I am incredibly stressed out because I am already going to be borrowing ~$310,000 (~$78,000/year), and the insurance companies told me I will be paying approximately $250-$280/month for insurance.
I can't go on my parents' insurance...
Can't afford health insurance and am stressed out (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 29, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Saleemrodman1 Tags: Medical Students - DO Source Type: forums
Senate Health Bill Includes Pay Cap
Sen Alexander introduced legislation to curb balance billing, out-of-network billing, or frequently reported in the news media as "surprise billing."
Let me be clear: there is no surprise about it. Many insurance companies purposefully don't contract with physicians because it is a way to avoid paying physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare entities that are out-of-network. By limiting their networks, insurers can force individuals to pay more out-of-pocket expenses when they choose...
Senate Health Bill Includes Pay Cap (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 25, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: southerndoc Tags: Emergency Medicine Source Type: forums
Excellent Med Econ Article on Employed vs Independent MD/DO's
https://www.medicaleconomics.com/med-ec-blog/employed-vs-independent-doctors-numbers-dont-tell-whole-story?fbclid=IwAR2EuIa5tty5TjmwU1-IZVCVp8A5921uSEbQaSTVBjRYmKzkdc-XokzF5_c
"Yet hospitals continue to roll up practices for one reason: Money. The more doctors that hospitals or private equity companies own, the more market share they capture, the more bargaining power they have with insurers, the more facility fees they can charge (added costs hospitals charge...
Excellent Med Econ Article on Employed vs Independent MD/DO's (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 9, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: drusso Tags: Pain Medicine Source Type: forums
SBRT for all the bone mets
From MDACC. Guess we should SBRT most all the bone mets now?
Best of luck getting insurance companies to pay for it. Although academic centers probably have "an edge" in that regard. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 3, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: scarbrtj Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
California senate passes bill for pharmacists to furnish PrEP and PEP without a prescription
California Senate Passes Bill to Increase Access to PrEP, a Once-Daily Pill to Prevent HIV
Co-sponsored by Equality California, SB 159 authorizes pharmacists to furnish pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP and PEP) without a physician prescription and prohibits insurance companies from requiring prior authorizations in order to obtain PrEP coverage.
www.eqca.org
Taking a closer look at the bill itself:
(d) A pharmacist may furnish a 30-day supply of preexposure prophylaxis if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The patient is HIV nega...
Source: Student Doctor Network - May 24, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: giga Tags: Pharmacy Source Type: forums
Protons in the news
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/01/immoral-barbaric-cancer-surviving-judge-blasts-insurer-denying-therapy-before-recusing-himself/?utm_term=.73a275599b0b
“It is undisputed among legitimate medical experts that proton radiation therapy is not experimental and causes much less collateral damage than traditional radiation."
I suppose I will have to agree that protons for prostate is not experimental but we dispute about it all the time! (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - May 12, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: yeasterbunny Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
Advise to Future Dentist.....
I am a practicing dentist.....I want all future dentist to think hard before they become dentists.
A dentist life is not so great.
1. Financially speaking...you will make less then most other occupation after debt payment.
2. Physical problems from ergonomics in dental operatory
3. Managing staff....harder to deal with generations that puts "Me 1st"
4. Lower payment from insurance companies
5. DSO (dental service organization) are growing and taking away market share
6. Long hrs to make...
Advise to Future Dentist..... (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - April 30, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: lvmd Tags: Pre-Dental Source Type: forums
