Re:California's ‘Surprise’ Billing Law Is Protecting Patient...
by joe_the_user on Saturday September 28, 2019 @03:15AM
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So combining your comments with the other comments on the thread.
Radiology has to have a 48 turn-around but it's OK if many patient don't actually see a doctor without multi day waiting times and some portion can't see doctors in any reasonable timeframe. But radiology, we got that covered! It is an important part of health care but it is clear US priorities as reflected in "standards of care" are completely off-kilter (if you're not seeing a doctor at all, radiology turn-around can't help you or is there something I'm missing).
The way standards of care drives up costs seems like a scam but I know not all of it's a scam. In ways it's worse, in the sense it's harder to get a handle-on and stop, being a spectrum that shades from mostly scam to actually good but sometimes too-expensive approaches and so-forth.
Radiology has to have a 48 turn-around but it's OK if many patient don't actually see a doctor without multi day waiting times and some portion can't see doctors in any reasonable timeframe. But radiology, we got that covered! It is an important part of health care but it is clear US priorities as reflected in "standards of care" are completely off-kilter (if you're not seeing a doctor at all, radiology turn-around can't help you or is there something I'm missing).
The way standards of care drives up costs seems like a scam but I know not all of it's a scam. In ways it's worse, in the sense it's harder to get a handle-on and stop, being a spectrum that shades from mostly scam to actually good but sometimes too-expensive approaches and so-forth.