Rad Onc is in a dark place

[TheWallnerus]

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Do not go towards the light

 

[TheWallnerus]

Prior auth out here murdering people. And all we can muster is a little postmortem sympathy.

 

[madchemist89]

I don’t like prior authorization, but it killing people is a little hyperbolic.

 

[communitydoc13]

If waiting for prior auth is going to kill a patient, don't wait. It's simple. This is an easy flex with your admin. Hell, if a patient has poorly controlled symptomatic disease and potential disability from waiting...don't wait.

I wonder if any of these docs were letting patients suffer waiting for protons?

Much better data for timeliness of care than protons or frankly any other technical particulars of our care.

The docs waiting are unfortunately also culpable in this.

 

[Gfunk6]

If waiting for prior auth is going to kill a patient, don't wait. It's simple. This is an easy flex with your admin. Hell, if a patient has poorly controlled symptomatic disease and potential disability from waiting...don't wait.

I wonder if any of these docs were letting patients suffer waiting for protons?

Much better data for timeliness of care than protons or frankly any other technical particulars of our care.

The docs waiting are unfortunately also culpable in this.

It’s easy until your patient gets a bill for $40,000 for uncovered radiation procedures.

 

[communitydoc13]

It’s easy until your patient gets a bill for $40,000 for uncovered radiation procedures.

A bad outcome yes, but should be weighed against clinical urgency. Also, in my experience, I eventually get the payment to work. Always volunteer P2P upon denial.

In rare circumstances, the practice/hospital can also forgive payment.

Must be extraordinarily rare circumstances where protons or even IGRT provide the differential between life or death, disability or not. Timely treatment can at times be. Forgive the IGRT charges if absolutely necessary...hey, you might have save a life.

This is a false dichotomy described above. Sloppy thinking from a thought leader...edit: scratch that...it's a survey. Sloppy thinking by us.

But, yes...pre-authorization is a bother.

 

[NotMattSpraker]

Today I learned that Healio is run by a family owned medical publishing company that is named after a summer camp in New Jersey, The Wyanoke Group. They have been family owned and operating since 1919. Kind of crazy.

(I wanted to know what a Healio Women in Oncology Peer Perspective board was and ended up down a rabbit hole)

 

[SneakyBooger]

Do not go towards the light

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

[Ray D. Ayshun]

Title is certainly true. I'd argue that this is THE place to discuss radiation therapy and here's a screenshot of the most recently active threads.

The only thing that appears remotely clinical is a thread about an academic center creating a BS trial to steal patients from the community, kinda like this withdrawn City of Hope, aka CCTA, trial

Perhaps its more inclusive, if I can use that word, to say that medicine is a dark place.

 

[SneakyBooger]

Title is certainly true. I'd argue that this is THE place to discuss radiation therapy and here's a screenshot of the most recently active threads.
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The only thing that appears remotely clinical is a thread about an academic center creating a BS trial to steal patients from the community, kinda like this withdrawn City of Hope, aka CCTA, trial
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Perhaps its more inclusive, if I can use that word, to say that medicine is a dark place.

ARTHRITIS IS THE WAY

And @TheWallnerus started it all right here...

 

[Mandelin Rain]

That trial is genius.

It's like when crypto soared initially and failing Iced Tea brands would add "Blockchain" to their company name and see their stock soar.

 

[SneakyBooger]

That trial is genius.

It's like when crypto soared initially and failing Iced Tea brands would add "Blockchain" to their company name and see their stock soar.

Genius! We need to come up with a treatment that has 'AI' in the name!

 

[TheWallnerus]

Genius! We need to come up with a treatment that has 'AI' in the name!

Arthritic irradiations

 

[RickyScott]

Radonc’s future is so bright! So many amazing and diverse scholars from all over the world will be joining the field tommorrow.