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Do any doctors actively campaign to change these billing practices? Bogleheads.org seems to have quite a few Docs that post there, and the attitude is mostly "I
by rhexs 8y ago
Do any doctors actively campaign to change these billing practices? Bogleheads.org seems to have quite a few Docs that post there, and the attitude is mostly "I went into medicine to practice medicine / Gee, I don't bill at all, I leave that to the hospital" and other great flippant attitudes. Probably a poor community to judge the standards of medicine by as it's mostly a 1%er forum that happens to have some good advice, but that's the only exposure I have outside of my 5 minute $400 visits with specialists.
You'd think they'd be a bit more invested in the process of healing, but I haven't found much evidence of that. I hope I'm horribly wrong here.
- ttcbj 8y agoMy wife is a pediatrician at a large research university/med school. She is totally uninvolved in billing. She has no idea how much anything costs. She is aware of it as an issue, but its a giant organization, and the reality is she isn't going to try to fight the power. Personally, I don't think doctors are the answer. I used to really like the idea of high-deductible. But eventually, I just came around to the idea that only the gov't can fix it (with lots of tradeoffs in that fix, obviously).