I like this guy and follow his blog but he loves to bash "the proceduralists." Today, it's ophthos. Tomorrow will probably be Plastics guys...

http://thehappyhospitalist.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-much-does-cataract-surgery-cost.html

I like this guy and follow his blog but he loves to bash "the proceduralists." Today, it's ophthos. Tomorrow will probably be Plastics guys...

http://thehappyhospitalist.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-much-does-cataract-surgery-cost.html

Hilarious. He makes it seem that 10-20 cataracts per week will just fall out of the sky and hit us on the head. Free $$$, oh yeah. Unless you got a massive referral network, you'd have to see 200-400 patients/week to generate that volume. I'd wager that most ophthalmologists do less than 250 cataracts per year.

He hardly seems like the "happy" hospitalist.

I like this guy and follow his blog but he loves to bash "the proceduralists." Today, it's ophthos. Tomorrow will probably be Plastics guys...

http://thehappyhospitalist.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-much-does-cataract-surgery-cost.html


Plastics guys don't bill Medicare if they can avoid it. When they do work for Medicare money, it's for peanuts.