{"id":276,"date":"2014-09-21T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/09\/parking-a-link-drive-by-doctoring.html"},"modified":"2015-03-01T22:14:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T04:14:25","slug":"parking-a-link-drive-by-doctoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/09\/parking-a-link-drive-by-doctoring.html","title":{"rendered":"Parking a link: “drive-by doctoring”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Falls into the category of \u201cread one thing at the NYT site, and follow a link\u201d: \u00a0\u201cAfter Surgery, Surprise $117,000 Medical Bill From Doctor He Didn\u2019t Know<\/a>,\u201d a story about the practice of out-of-network doctors being called into a surgery and charging astronomical rates that even patients who plan in advance can\u2019t control.<\/p>\n

In operating rooms and on hospital wards across the country, physicians and other health providers typically help one another in patient care. But in an increasingly common practice that some medical experts call drive-by doctoring, assistants, consultants and other hospital employees are charging patients or their insurers hefty fees. They may be called in when the need for them is questionable. And patients usually do not realize they have been involved or are charging until the bill arrives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a0\u201cThe idea of having an assistant in the O.R. has become an opportunity to make up for surgical fees that have been slashed,\u201d said Dr. Abeel A. Mangi, a professor of cardiac surgery at Yale, who said the practice had become commonplace. \u201cThere\u2019s now a whole cadre of people out there who do not have meaningful appointments as attending surgeons, so they do assistant work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A New York State law that will take effect in March \u2014 one of a few nationally \u2014 will offer some protection against many surprise charges and require more advance disclosure from doctors and hospitals on whether their services are covered by insurance. It states, for example, that patients are not responsible for unforeseen out-of-network charges beyond what they would have paid in-network. It directs insurers and hospitals to negotiate any further payment or enter mediation.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In many other countries, such as Australia \u2014 where, as in the United States, people often rely on private insurance \u2014 it is seen as a patient\u2019s right to be informed of out-of-pocket costs before hospitalization, said Mark Hall, a law professor at Wake Forest University.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Falls into the category of \u201cread one thing at the NYT site, and follow a link\u201d: \u00a0\u201cAfter Surgery, Surprise $117,000 Medical Bill From Doctor He Didn\u2019t Know,\u201d a story about the practice of out-of-network doctors being called into a surgery and charging astronomical rates that even patients who plan in advance can\u2019t control. 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