By all means, let’s farm out healthcare remotely to someone in India to assess the health needs of a consumer. Is this going to deliver the $2,500 per year premium savings our President promised?
Opie,
What they are going to do is design a “Snapshot-esque” device that you can shove up your Neo-Conic Keister so they can get a feel for what is going on in your brain.
Agent, where in the article did it mention outsourcing to another country? I’m the co-owner of freshbenies and we work through Teladoc – all U.S. board-certified physicians.
Where have you been Heidi? Do you think all insurance companies only use US Board Certified physicians? Have you been around any doctor’s offices lately? Indians, Pakistani, Africans are thick as fleas. They are already outsourcing tests and get opinions over the email. Blue Cross answers the phone with out sourced foreign workers that most people can’t understand whether it is network questions, billing or whatever. The new trend is being seen by a PA or Nurse Practitioner instead of a doctor if a patient has a minor condition. This is the new wave of Healthcare.
Agent, my question to you was specific to this article about the growth of telemedicine in the US. It was an honest question, not meant to spin you into a frenzy about the entire healthcare system, outsourcing, foreign-born US doctors, call centers, etc. Since you mentioned it, I’d be happy to take medical counsel from an Indian, Pakistani, African, Purple, Blue or whatever doctor – in person OR via telemedicine :-)
Totally off topic from the article, but you know what drives me crazy about this trend of being seen by a PA or a Nurse Practitioner? In some cases, there is no decrease in cost for it.
I have recently starting going to an urgent care clinic when I get sick and see a Nurse Practitioner and for something like a sinus infection, etc…it’s great and I know it costs me less than if I were to go to my primary care physician.
BUT, when I take my little girl to her doctor (I wouldn’t take her to urgent care at her age, I prefer to take her to her doctor’s office), but see the PA instead, there is no difference in price for the office visit. It’s $214 to see a doctor and $214 to see the PA…I think that’s a bunch of bunk.
Actually, Libby, I am. I only let my daughter see the PA for sinus infections, ear infections, etc…I would not take her to a PA for something more serious.
I feel, in a way, you are saying someone who has 20 years of claims experience is equal to that of 1 year of claims experience…as long as the “service” is the same, who cares about the knowledge?
August 14, 2014 at 2:09 pm
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Also, reference my point about going to urgent care to see a NP rather than a doctor being cheaper…
The higher up the food chaing (the more degree/knowledge someone has), the more I would expect to pay.
August 14, 2014 at 4:51 pm
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Fair enough. Just asking. My PCP immediately assigned me to a LPN and I have never seen a doctor there. It peeves me a little, too, because I wonder about the level of care. I don’t know if I’m getting the same level of care or not. And I don’t know if I more or less.
I am having a minor out-patient procedure done and I’m trying to find out the cost since I’m on a large deductible. You’d think I’m trying to get the formula for the A-bomb the way it’s so secretive.
We need pricing for care to be more transparent to the patient. It is in every other field.
August 14, 2014 at 1:31 pm
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Thick as fleas? Got racism? You might want to work on your comparisons a bit, Agent. Unless, of course, you in fact don’t like those brown people.
If he was there, he didn’t see combat that’s for sure. I lived there during the war (while my Dad was actually over in Vietnam fighting) and Quartermaster set us up with some sweet furnishings! Thanks, Agent Flyboy.
By all means, let’s farm out healthcare remotely to someone in India to assess the health needs of a consumer. Is this going to deliver the $2,500 per year premium savings our President promised?
Opie,
What they are going to do is design a “Snapshot-esque” device that you can shove up your Neo-Conic Keister so they can get a feel for what is going on in your brain.
Already going on and has been for quite some time, it’s called medical tourism.
Agent, where in the article did it mention outsourcing to another country? I’m the co-owner of freshbenies and we work through Teladoc – all U.S. board-certified physicians.
Where have you been Heidi? Do you think all insurance companies only use US Board Certified physicians? Have you been around any doctor’s offices lately? Indians, Pakistani, Africans are thick as fleas. They are already outsourcing tests and get opinions over the email. Blue Cross answers the phone with out sourced foreign workers that most people can’t understand whether it is network questions, billing or whatever. The new trend is being seen by a PA or Nurse Practitioner instead of a doctor if a patient has a minor condition. This is the new wave of Healthcare.
Agent, my question to you was specific to this article about the growth of telemedicine in the US. It was an honest question, not meant to spin you into a frenzy about the entire healthcare system, outsourcing, foreign-born US doctors, call centers, etc. Since you mentioned it, I’d be happy to take medical counsel from an Indian, Pakistani, African, Purple, Blue or whatever doctor – in person OR via telemedicine :-)
Good luck Heidi. I wish you the best of success.
Totally off topic from the article, but you know what drives me crazy about this trend of being seen by a PA or a Nurse Practitioner? In some cases, there is no decrease in cost for it.
I have recently starting going to an urgent care clinic when I get sick and see a Nurse Practitioner and for something like a sinus infection, etc…it’s great and I know it costs me less than if I were to go to my primary care physician.
BUT, when I take my little girl to her doctor (I wouldn’t take her to urgent care at her age, I prefer to take her to her doctor’s office), but see the PA instead, there is no difference in price for the office visit. It’s $214 to see a doctor and $214 to see the PA…I think that’s a bunch of bunk.
Do you not get the same care from a P.A. as an M.D.? You’re paying for the care, not the degree.
Actually, Libby, I am. I only let my daughter see the PA for sinus infections, ear infections, etc…I would not take her to a PA for something more serious.
I feel, in a way, you are saying someone who has 20 years of claims experience is equal to that of 1 year of claims experience…as long as the “service” is the same, who cares about the knowledge?
Also, reference my point about going to urgent care to see a NP rather than a doctor being cheaper…
The higher up the food chaing (the more degree/knowledge someone has), the more I would expect to pay.
Fair enough. Just asking. My PCP immediately assigned me to a LPN and I have never seen a doctor there. It peeves me a little, too, because I wonder about the level of care. I don’t know if I’m getting the same level of care or not. And I don’t know if I more or less.
I am having a minor out-patient procedure done and I’m trying to find out the cost since I’m on a large deductible. You’d think I’m trying to get the formula for the A-bomb the way it’s so secretive.
We need pricing for care to be more transparent to the patient. It is in every other field.
Thick as fleas? Got racism? You might want to work on your comparisons a bit, Agent. Unless, of course, you in fact don’t like those brown people.
Not to mention he has a Filipino wife that he picked up while stationed over there on ‘Murrica’s tax dollars. I guess she was one of the “good ones”.
Agent never left the States during his tour. He was head Quartermaster on base.
Oh no, Opie lied? He said he was in a Typhoon while stationed overseas during the WWI or something.
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2014/08/13/337429.htm
If he was there, he didn’t see combat that’s for sure. I lived there during the war (while my Dad was actually over in Vietnam fighting) and Quartermaster set us up with some sweet furnishings! Thanks, Agent Flyboy.