"Did you die?" Brilliant
(I CAN’T GET NO) Satisfaction
The American College of Radiology’s Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute published a study which concluded that physicians could lose up to a total of $1.3 billion a year from their Medicare pay by not satisfactorily reporting quality measures to the program. You can read the rest of the article in the American Medical News but it is so convoluted that I got disgusted and bored. The truth is that these quality initiatives have never been proven to help patients and has been created only to save money by confusing and frustrating physicians.
It did give me a chance to put in a good Rolling Stones song title and picture, though, so I feel good about that.
A Collaborative Work From Some of the Writers at Authentic Medicine
Adil Manzoor DO
Douglas Farrago MD
Errin Weisman DO
Joanna Rulf, DO
John Hayes, Jr., MD
Ken Fisher MD
Natalie Newman MD
Pat Conrad MD
Contributions by select members of Physicians for Patient Protection
Robert Duprey MD
Russell Kamer MD
Steven Mussey MD
“Under My Thumb” would also be appropriate here.
Good one
The Stones had a lot of good songs – while the AMA,AAFP. et al are bleating out pale, Inaugural Bawl rap-lounge versions of ‘Emotional Rescue”, real doctors can dial in “Between a Rock-and a hard Place”, “You Can’t Always Get what You Want”, and as the noose tightens, “Gimme Shelter.”