To: i-node who wrote (36284 ) 4/29/2014 6:04:34 PM From: J_F_Shepard Read Replies (1) | Respond to You don't think doctors offices have to pay anything for those skimpy gowns they put you in? For the little appointment cards they give you and the encounter form they use to track the procedures in the office? Who puts you in a skimpy paper gown for an office visit, and if they do they cost pennies....little appt cards? For transcription, radiology, and the additional payroll they will encounter for increasing their number of patients per day by 10-25%? For outside lab costs, or the little cups you pee in, or vacutainers or paper for the EKG machine? Software licenses, computers, phone lines, and health insurance for the additional nurses they have to have to see more patients? The money they spend for CLIA inspections and pest control, paper towels and pencils and pens? Modern offices don't require transcription, the doc carries his lil laptop and inputs during the visit.....thereby saving money... What additional payroll, I said new patients in the same 8 hour day..... Any tests with specialized equip. or blood tests receive more money from the insurances..... The same software license fee doesn't increase, the computers don't cost more, phone lines don't cost more, and health ins. for the nurses doesn't cost more. And additional nurses are not required for 5 more patients in the same 8 hour day. Give me a break... All insurance companies have a very good idea what things cost......eg, my insurance was billed 150$ for drawing blood for a procedure......they said bull shit, that is part of the procedure you were paid for, you get nothing extra....All that crap is just free? No, not free but easily contained in the payment they receive....
