Anthem responds to price increases in anesthesia

[jon-nyc]

By time boxing it

[George K]

Saw that yesterday.

Lot of hospital contracts gonna be negotiated.

[taiwan_girl]

Wow! Every surgury is different, I would think. I do not think this is a good idea.

[George K]

I worked with a surgeon who could do an open cholecystectomy in 25 minutes.

I also worked with a surgeon who would take 3 hours.

Regarding the "contracts" comment. Our group had a contract, an exclusive contract, with the hospital to provide anesthesia services. In that contract it was stipulated that we would accept all in insurance payments that the hospital accepted.

(Aside - we could have made 75% of our income for half the time worked if we stopped taking Medicare).

Now, with this fiat by Anthem, I imagine many groups will come to the hospital and say "Nope -we're not taking that insurance. Figure it out. Make up the difference."

[jon-nyc]

Either that or go into the collections business

[Jolly]

Fast, cheap and good...Pick any two..

[George K]

Umm..never mind.