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Originally Posted by Geronimo '74
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Sounds good on paper. But I've found the skeeziest docs are the ones that always manage to jump through the hoops and not get eliminated by them.
Example: To get recognized by an insurance company (so that they'll let you treat their customers and pay you), you have to join their MPN (medical provider network). One of the big insurers I deal with in CA for workman's comp is a dysfunctional company called SCIF. It's taken me about 2 years to be accepted. One of the reasons for their many hoops is supposedly because they want to be very selective to weed out the not-so-good docs. That's what they say, at least.
Sounds great. But when you're in the community, you have an idea of who the ambulance-chasing docs are out there. The ones who pull in $2 mil per year because their offices are mills, not because they necessarily practice good medicine. Actually, the guys who see 70 patients per day usually aren't on the local unofficial list of "best docs" if you catch my drift. But I've found that just about every one of these sketchy docs are about on every MPN out there--including the selective ones. 'Cause they're the ones who know how to work the system.