• @[email protected]
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    285 days ago

    Damn those psychiatrists, it’s THEIR fault that the medical insurance is creating overly elaborate schemes to avoid paying out.

    How dare they suggest that this isn’t sustainable.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      95 days ago

      I worked at a place that ONLY took Medicaid patients. It pays less but it’s not insane to do it. Docs need to take more Medicaid patients

        • @[email protected]OP
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          75 days ago

          The coding was no more complicated than commercial insurers. What paperwork are you referring to?

  • @[email protected]
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    175 days ago

    Hey America, got any good news about how things are going over there?

    Because it’s looking past the point where you should be in the streets by now

          • Armok: God of Blood
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            10. The police aren’t going to be enforcing unpaid rent if they’re trying to fight off armed rioters.

            • @[email protected]
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              24 days ago

              Yeah I’m buying, it’s my only hope for a partial retirement. It has also been a money pit. I have no savings or retirement funds. The bank will 100% take it if I miss a few payments.

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    This article is infuriating. Ok, so Medicare paid hospitals $106k-182k to train doctors in 2015… and as someone who graduated from residency in 2014, we were making $40k-55k. So the hospitals were pocketing 60-75% of the payments, and doctors are supposed to feel grateful?

    The solution is obvious: if you want psychiatrists to take Medicare, pay them. CMS has already shifted payments toward primary care because they know it’s necessary, but are dragging ass on psychiatry. They could easily fix the shortage of psychiatric services for low income patients by actually incentivizing it, if they actually wanted to.

    Replace the “social contract” with an actual contract and you’ll see results.

  • UFO
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    105 days ago

    Ah yes. Is this similar to the social contact that expects teachers to be underpaid and put up with abuse?

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      85 days ago

      More so the one where they go to medical school on a slot paid for by the government and then go into private practice and refuse all insurance

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        Ah yea. Different social contact imo

  • @[email protected]
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    -25 days ago

    I hate the concept of a social contract. I didnt sign any such thing. And how da fuck is it the fault of doctors that america is thw worlds greates third world country.