reimbursements

[echod]

Please correct me if I'm wrong. In the Medicare formula to calculate reimbursements, factors that are included are duration of the surgery, the type of surgery, how sick the patient is, the particular state, and the type of anesthesia. The qualification of the person administrating anesthesia is not factored into reimbursement. Does this mean a MD and CRNA would get reimbursed the same for the exact same procedure/patient if the two were both doing only one room? Thanks!

 

[Mman]

Medicare's reimbursement formula takes what you would make on an insured patient and multiplies that by 0.1 to 0.15 and then pays you next to nothing. That's the only formula that matters to them.

 

[Consigliere]

Please correct me if I'm wrong. In the Medicare formula to calculate reimbursements, factors that are included are duration of the surgery, the type of surgery, how sick the patient is, the particular state, and the type of anesthesia. The qualification of the person administrating anesthesia is not factored into reimbursement. Does this mean a MD and CRNA would get reimbursed the same for the exact same procedure/patient if the two were both doing only one room? Thanks!

Yes.

 

[Notanerd]

Yes and it's time to revolt against this as doctors. It's disgusting how much we are taken advantage off