Pray for Pay
This is from the Family Medicine SmartBrief:
The AAFP asked the CMS for additional information on some new codes contained in the 2015 Medicare physician fee schedule because the agency failed to provide relative value units for them. The AAFP letter noted that even though Medicare does not recognize the 99487 code for complex chronic care management services, it should publish the RVUs related to it because other insurers may recognize the code.
The link is broken (and so is the AAFP) so I cannot send you to this reference. Here are some thoughts. How weak is the AAFP? I am so confused. The whole “complex chronic care” trend is not recognized by Medicare? Someone explain this to me. Isn’t the whole PCMH or ACO or whatever built on this concept? And the best that the AAFP can do is pray that if the RVUs are published that maybe an insurer will cover it. Yeah, good luck with that.
Wake up and eliminate the middle man. Stop accepting insurance.
Pray for pay: I like it. I’m going to steal it.
Nothing better illustrates the utter idiocy and/or total maliciousness of those pushing the PCMH: the idea that physicians should invest the time, personnel and money in providing services for free (no contract or fee schedule), and then hope, wish, pray that insurers, out of the kindness of their hearts, will begin to pay for them.
A decade later, may practices are still waiting.
Pathetic.
‘Oliver Twist’ and his begging bowl, asking for more gruel would make a great AAFP mascot.
I LOVE IT!!!!