morning thoughts
Jan. 11th, 2006 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessSchool Related - To whomever scheduled multiple conflicts into my anatomy student's schedules that require them to change class times, lab times or just plain miss parts of my class/lab and the class/labs of someone else, I'm coming to kick you in the face. One person wouldn't be so bad but over a half dozen??
TV related - I'm ticked that House isn't going to be on again until Feb. And last night's eppy was disturbing to me for reasons that would not have disturbed 99% of the viewers. No it wasn't the ... cut for spoilers cerebral malaria (though we are getting esoteric here)nor was it how childish the other young doctors were acting, it was House having to meet with the medicaid reviewer. (okay that's a spoiler but hardly a main plot point, just a reason to get him out of town) God the nightmares that brought back.
Most of you don't probably know that medicare/medicaid review all our billing to make sure we aren't defrauding them. Fair enough. One of the things they look at is are you doing the same procedures all the time. Um guess what if you're a specialist like I was you DO perform the same procedures all the time. That's why you're the damn specialist. Just like House's cases were all class 5 in complexity (which is the highest paying) all of mine were either palliative/preventative care or debridement of wounds. I'm a wound care specialist. Do you want to know how many times my records were flagged? Wanna know how scary that is? Let me put it this way, in Florida alone the federal governement committed hundreds of cases of fraud to prove fraud where it didn't exist, took back over 10 million dollars that were NOT fraudelent charges, lost dozens of doctors their practices and some even went to jail before someone put the brakes to the gov. I was planning on leaving medicine even before I was injured for this very reason.
TV related - I'm ticked that House isn't going to be on again until Feb. And last night's eppy was disturbing to me for reasons that would not have disturbed 99% of the viewers. No it wasn't the ... cut for spoilers cerebral malaria (though we are getting esoteric here)nor was it how childish the other young doctors were acting, it was House having to meet with the medicaid reviewer. (okay that's a spoiler but hardly a main plot point, just a reason to get him out of town) God the nightmares that brought back.
Most of you don't probably know that medicare/medicaid review all our billing to make sure we aren't defrauding them. Fair enough. One of the things they look at is are you doing the same procedures all the time. Um guess what if you're a specialist like I was you DO perform the same procedures all the time. That's why you're the damn specialist. Just like House's cases were all class 5 in complexity (which is the highest paying) all of mine were either palliative/preventative care or debridement of wounds. I'm a wound care specialist. Do you want to know how many times my records were flagged? Wanna know how scary that is? Let me put it this way, in Florida alone the federal governement committed hundreds of cases of fraud to prove fraud where it didn't exist, took back over 10 million dollars that were NOT fraudelent charges, lost dozens of doctors their practices and some even went to jail before someone put the brakes to the gov. I was planning on leaving medicine even before I was injured for this very reason.
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