Consult Restrictions

[JoeyB]

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My question is wether a hospital can restrict to whom consults go to.

Scenario: Smaller 40-60 bed hospital with employed hospitalist group with some of the weekends and nights covered by moonlighters (independent contractors). There are two medicine subspecialty groups, group 1 and group 2, with their respective providers having privledges at the hospital. However, the hospital has some policy/agreement/whathaveyou that only group 1 can get the new patient consults where as the other group is consulted only in the event that the patient is an existing patient of group 2.

 

[tartesos]

My question is wether a hospital can restrict to whom consults go to.

Scenario: Smaller 40-60 bed hospital with employed hospitalist group with some of the weekends and nights covered by moonlighters (independent contractors). There are two medicine subspecialty groups, group 1 and group 2, with their respective providers having privledges at the hospital. However, the hospital has some policy/agreement/whathaveyou that only group 1 can get the new patient consults where as the other group is consulted only in the event that the patient is an existing patient of group 2.

The group 2 seems to be fine with this, so yes hospital can do whatever they want.

 

[JoeyB]

Your assumption is not true.

Does anyone know anything about this situation?

Does it violate Stark?

 

[P Diddy]

Your assumption is not true.

Does anyone know anything about this situation?

Does it violate Stark?

What's the problem - you're in group 1? Find another job if you're unhappy. What does this have to do with Stark?

p diddy

 

[efex101]

yes this happens at many facilities even with subspecialty consults.

 

[DrAwesomo]

Not illegal. Not unheard of. But it can create friction between group 1 and group 2 if their pay scales are same.