Crappy Alphabet Soup by Chris Perry
I have been a fan since the Placebo Journal days and member of the round table as Sir Borborygmos. I’m about to quit next month after 35 years. I’m not dignifying this with the title of retirement. I’d like to leave you with a little fodder for future topics.I have been compiling a list of the ever growing regulatory, punitive,and intrusive government and industry agencies that have made my life miserable.
In no particular order:
- ABFM
- AAFP
- NCMB
- AMA
- CLIA
- HIPPA
- NCQA
- OSHA
- HEDIS
- PECOS
- RUC
- JCAOH
- RBRVS
- RAC
- MAC
- ACLS
- BCLS
- NRP
- PCMH
- PPSA
- PQRS or is it PQRI
- CMS
- SGR
- ICD-10
- EMR
- EHR
- QRUR
- P4P
- MOC
- MU
- ACA
- ACO
- ONC
- HITECH
- ACGME
Keep smiling, Sir Bororygmos
Editor’s Note: Do I need to say more? Anybody else have another alphabet soup to add?
OCR…
Congratulation Sir Borborygmos on your escape-I mean retirement! As a nurse for the last 40 years, and the last several doing Case Management and Utilization Review, I have been choking on the alphabet soup as well. It brings me to tears when I let myself think about the way healthcare has changed. And I DO remember when doctors were respected and I stood up and offered my chair when a physician came into the nurses station. We never would have called a doctor (which we often said somewhat reverently) by his first name. I still don’t do that. You so earned that title and it should be used (except out in public where if used, it gets abused). Enjoy the new journey and I hope you still have a few old Placebo Journals to peruse every now and then to remind you how lucky you are.
Nice going Chris, and congrats. I WILL dignify it, after my 37 years, by calling it retirement. I deserve it. One error though, it’s HIPAA, not HIPPA, and I have one…AMFs!
The sad thing is actually knowing what they all mean.
MQSA
CPT
HCFA
Wash D.C.
DPH
SS
RVU
DOT
also a former Knight of the Roundtable and Contributor to PJ
Sir Rumpleforeskin
Don’t forget: Esq. and JD
Hahahaha
HHS, UPIN, NPI, RVU, WHO
Godspeed Chris, I’m envious.
I can only think of three more, but I’m surprised you missed ’em!
CEO
CFO
MBA
Chris, this is not an item on your list to further compound the Misery but a short ? acronym that might help with the tremendous burden you are carrying: GOD