#TexMed2024 is going to be awesome!!

Come hear ⁦Dr. Glaucomflecken⁩ in person!

Dallas, May 4, 2024
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There is no good reason to use the word provider in healthcare.

#healthcare

17 yr hospital CEO in #CT is taking off the gloves vs. #MedicareAdvantage . The hospital’s Advantage denials are nearly 14% > than Medicare A & B FFS, so he laid off 60 folks from his hospital. There have been multiple posts here & elsewhere showing Advantage denials are out of…

Hospital CEOs:

If your note to physicians on #DoctorsDay begins “Dear Providers” then you are doing it wrong!

How can they be so tone deaf?

Make sure you stand up and correct anyone that calls you a “provider!”
#MedTwitter

Doctor≠Provider 'Provider' is intentionally part of the $4 Trillion power game by hospitals + insurance companies. All part of a culture of disrespect!

#StarkLaw : 'This is an example of how poorly written laws can end up hurting the persons they are designed to protect — in this case the patient, and further, cause damage to our healthcare workers and workplaces. It's a potential 'road to ruin' for the practicing healthcare…

THIS!!!!

Unfortunately quite a few health care executives seem to share this particular tone deafness. They’ll learn!One hopes, as institutions go sideways, they’ll find a safe landing spot.

Doctor≠Provider Just a reminder..PROVIDER is an insurance term derived to maximize billing by obfuscating the actual education and capability of those hired to deliver care! Its a huge scam and all the profiteers are winners..Patients are losers.

Hospital CEOs:

If your note to physicians on #DoctorsDay begins “Dear Providers” then you are doing it wrong!

How can they be so tone deaf?

Make sure you stand up and correct anyone that calls you a “provider!”
#MedTwitter

Happy DOCTORS DAY!!

Here’s a recent conversation I had with a colleague about that very subject.

#DoctorsDay #MedTwitter
#DoctorsDay 2024

Never let yourself be called a “provider”
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Small town ERs are different.

this evening I saw something I didn't know happened. 

When I got to the ER for my shift, I was told about the patients in the ED, and that one room had a patient who had expired, waiting on the funeral home, along with the ones I can potentially…

Hagma Goldmark

Increase in Medicare payment from 2008-2023:

Surgeons: 0.98%
Hospitals: 35.8%

This is directly related to the disparity in lobbying capabilities and to a lesser extent public perception.

The death of private practice in a nutshell…

Surgeons face stagnant pay since 2008 with skyrocketing overhead.
#txlege #medtwitter

More than 100,000 doctors have left private practice to become employees of hospitals & corporate entities since 2019. Today, nearly three in four physicians are employees of larger health care entities or other corporations — a record high. statnews.com/2024/02/15/ind… via STAT

It’s time to call out UnitedHealthcare for simply awful peer-to-peer. A “peer” did not approve sinus surgery for this patient with chronic sinusitis and nasal polyposis. (And OSA, can’t use his CPAP). Unacceptable. Clearly their process is flawed. (Shared w/permission)

He’s talking about surgeons and instead says “providers.” His heart is in the right place. But even his language has been polluted by the system.

It’s ok to say “physician” and “surgeon” when you want to!

Dear @aetna

My patients woke up January 1st, 2024 with the same cancers they had December 31st, 2023

I also gave you notice as to which treatments should extend into this year

Let’s end the delays of “re-approving” what was already working for people with little time to wait