I thought so. Except this article was talking about a private surgical assistant. Where did PE come in?
And I would like to know what people's opinion of a "fair" rate from insurance companies is. I hate the idea of the larger groups getting more than the small groups for sure, but what is fair? We know medicare sucks.
I would also like to add that there's a guy on here
@aneftp, I believe, whose friend bills out of network in Dallas and makes $1M a year doing that. Is that fair? I mean when he sends patients these "surprise" bills should we be defending this behaviour? Or is it all part of scummy behavior? Plenty of anesthesiologists doing that all over. And Dallas is a decently reimbursed market lets be honest. Plenty of well to do people.
The whole system is a sick money grubbing game. Everyone is trying to as large a piece of a pie as they can and it's complete BS. I personally refuse to pay bills that I consider outrageous. I don't care if I have the money. Send it to collections. I don't care. A damn knee scope should not "cost" 97K.