You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill

Re:You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill by ceejayoz on Thursday May 30, 2024 @09:18AM (#40523351)

The catch is it doesn't cover anything outside of primary care.

If you're healthy and have a catastrophic plan as a backup if you get cancer, it can work. If you've got chronic issues, expensive medications, etc. it doesn't.

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Re:You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill by atlasmd on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:17AM (#40533606)

as a direct care doc, it can help with things 'outside' of primary care. Online doctor to doctor specialists consults, meds, labs, imaging, pathology, dme. Skin cancers can be biopsied and managed for no additional cost (procedure free, cost of pathology $70, meds) by family docs. Or we've helped get wholesale chemotherapy medications to make care affordable in coordination with specialists.

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Re:You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill by atlasmd on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:18AM (#40533621)

one good example is http://bit.ly/2mhMxZl a graph of seizure medications where retail is as high as $108 and wholesale for #DirectCare pts is <$1.50

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Re:You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill by ceejayoz on Friday May 31, 2024 @08:05AM (#40534008)

There’s no need for URL hiding and hashtagging here.

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Re:You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill by atlasmd on Saturday June 01, 2024 @10:09AM (#40545879)

force of habit on the # tags and the url shortening are part of my text expander habits :)

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Re:You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill by atlasmd on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:21AM (#40533641)

and here's a more complete list of routine meds/labs/imaging and their wholesale cost http://bit.ly/2JoVyJi wholesale meds, labs, imaging

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