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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. Amy Cho, MD MBA‏ @amychomd 6 Sep 2019
      Replying to @amychomd @gorskon and

      Because of EMTALA, emergency docs provide a huge amount of safety net care. We don’t get paid for a lot of care we provide. Our compensation is directly dependent on payer mix & reimbursement rates. So this would cause drops of 20-40% in reimbursement/compensation for same work.pic.twitter.com/KvpAUm5P2X

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    2. Amy Cho, MD MBA‏ @amychomd 6 Sep 2019
      Replying to @amychomd @gorskon and

      For those physicians employed by hospitals directly, as professional fee reimbursement drops drastically, physicians will become a cost center. We anticipate staffed physician hours will decrease first. This is dangerous for patients and extraordinarily stressful for docs.

      1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes
    3. Amy Cho, MD MBA‏ @amychomd 6 Sep 2019
      Replying to @amychomd @gorskon and

      On-call consultants will likely stop taking call as well and perform elective surgeries in their outpatient surgical centers. This will drive more transfers.

      2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    4. Amy Cho, MD MBA‏ @amychomd 6 Sep 2019
      Replying to @amychomd @gorskon and

      Rural hospitals operate on razor thin margins and many are already at risk of closure. There are some emergencies where minutes matter and patients will die because the hospital closed or couldn’t afford to pay subsidies to staff their ED.

      2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
    5. Amy Cho, MD MBA‏ @amychomd 6 Sep 2019
      Replying to @amychomd @gorskon and

      Balance billing has actually been around for some time. In the past, Andrew Cuomo and others recognized that this was a tactic used by insurance to shift costs to patients. Insurance still does this.https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/nyregion/health-insurers-switch-baseline-for-out-of-network-charges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share …

      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    6. Terry Simpson‏ @terrysimpson 6 Sep 2019
      Replying to @amychomd @gorskon @drdanchoi

      Most insurance that have out-of-network have caps. And most insurance companies are getting rid of out-of-network benefits because ER docs are a bit on the greedy side. Thousands of dollars for professional fee for a few minutes fixing a laceration is beyond the pale

      4 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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    8. Terry Simpson‏ @terrysimpson 6 Sep 2019
      Replying to @SETT30273848 @amychomd and

      Why should I post a patient EOB from a bad doctor. And tell me - what is reasonable? I say medicare for all and we can be done with this - better yet, pay for outcome not performance

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    9. mnd‏ @mnd971 7 Sep 2019
      Replying to @terrysimpson @SETT30273848 and

      If someone is espousing a view so strongly you have to wonder where their belief comes from. Maybe it’s the Board you sit on, maybe it’s patient care. Hard to know when one has vested interest in taking down private doctors.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Terry Simpson‏ @terrysimpson 7 Sep 2019
      Replying to @mnd971 @SETT30273848 and

      No one is taking down private doctors. Just the ones who gouge patients

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 7 Sep 2019
      Replying to @terrysimpson @SETT30273848 and

      IKR? In a way, we as physicians have no one to blame but ourselves. We have colleagues who gouge patients, and we've tolerated it.

      7:59 AM - 7 Sep 2019
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        2. Amy Cho, MD MBA‏ @amychomd 7 Sep 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @terrysimpson and

          Physicians should not abdicate responsibility for business & regulatory facets of healthcare that are part and parcel to medicine. But implying physicians who do get involved in these “crass” aspects are greedy and evil silences volunteers quickly. Who is left to speak out?

          1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
        3. Terry Simpson‏ @terrysimpson 7 Sep 2019
          Replying to @amychomd @gorskon and

          Too often physicians have no clue about the business side, but they think they do - this might be why 65% of physician owned surgery centers go out of business the first year

          3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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