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The problem isn't that the hospital subcontracted for anesthesia. The problem is that hospital didn't simply bill me, but instead passed billing to the subcontr
by olliej 3y ago
The problem isn't that the hospital subcontracted for anesthesia. The problem is that hospital didn't simply bill me, but instead passed billing to the subcontractor, who billed me separately.
Why should I, as a patient, be exposed to the internal organization of the hospital? If, as the hospital claims, I have a personal relationship with the anesthesiology company why can I not choose who to use?
I really want to emphasize this fact: it is not the subcontracting that is the problem, it is the separation of billing.
- devilbunny 3y agoThe hospital doesn't employ me. They pay my group to cover call for them, but we are legally an entirely separate entity from the hospital. And, as long as whoever you want to do your anesthesia has privileges at that hospital, you can use them. We're not the only ones who can work there; we're just the ones who have to take any case any surgeon who has privileges wants to do. (This creates its own set of headaches; there was an ENT surgeon who did all of his quick, easy, and profitable ear tubes and tonsils with a different anesthesia group in town, but if the tonsil bled at night, he would call us to do the much-worse-paying and unscheduled surgery to stop the bleeding.)