War on Doctors

There has been a battle pursuing doctors for years. Now it seems to be on all fronts. This is a collaboration of efforts so we can draw up our battle plans to help us win so we can focus on helping our patients.

Health providers through altruistic motives spent years of their life studying and preparing for their career idealistically thinking they would help healthy people stay healthy and sick people feel better and have a better quality of life... and then the battle begins:

On this website we will develop strategies to help fight with these battles and provide opportunities for you to send in your comments to be added if they are relevant to each article.

1) Insurance companies have tried to get between us and the patients ....after all some clerk in an insurance knows more than someone who has been in medical school for 8+ years and has actually examined the patient.

2) The competition - who knew we couldn't work together for the common good? Not only is it frequently dog-eat-dog...there is also a trend to eat our young instead of mentoring the new physician. There is also the competition between the general hospital and the specialty-niche center, (read what weapons they have in their arsenals).

3) Hospital peer review committees - don't hospitals know they need physicians to admit sick patients to them to stay in business? Hospitals are really rough on whistleblowers. - recognize the signs of systematic attack on individual physicians (read more). There is also the issue of economic credentialing. (read more)

4)The media publicizes any innuendo with drug or sexual overtones.

5) State Medical Societies, licensing requirements.. the oversight authority often feeds power trips. They can kill your career in the blink of an eye. The charges are not just from malpractice. You cannot be subject to human frailties... don't ever get caught for something like a DUI.

6) Peer Review - once the process starts its like the Spanish Inquisition - follow link for insight into the process as well as avenues to stop it.

6) NDPB -National Practitioner Data Bank - makes it almost impossible to get a fresh start and recover from a peer review charge

7) the countless regulations from congress - are you in compliance with all of them and are you ready for an audit of your practice

- Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MPAC)

- HCQIA

- EMPTALA

- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
aka   OBAMACARE
read Supreme Court OPINION

- OSHA

- HIPPA

- HIPDB Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank
 

8) CPT or HCPCS and ICD-10 coding
If not submitted properly, claims and other transactions may be
rejected Medical Coding Monopoly Based on these codes, which are also used by all private insurance companies, your care will be relegated to predetermined categories and restricted options read more

9) Demands for electronic record keeping- the deadline for this is coming soon... are you ready? Did you taking typing and computer tech support in medical school?
Technology Gone Wild: Perhaps one of the most insidious and dangerous trends in modern health care is the “hit” that physicians will take in the form of mandated electronic medical records and e-prescription requirements, all bundled under Obamacare’s new health information technology (HIT) requirements read more
 

10) Encumbered with student loans - in your naive days as a student you thought you would become a rich doctor and be able to repay your loans within 2-3 years ..and then you had the expense of setting up your practice and maybe buying a house and perhaps even eating.