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-WJ

Meddling Insurers? Sound familiar?

I'm glad this is hitting the mainstream media. 

"Doctors candidly admit that it's about money. And they blame insurers for "conditioning" them to practice medicine this way, meaning less efficiently than they believe they should.

Dr. Ted Epperly, a family physician based in Boise, Idaho, explained that if multiple services are administered to a patient on the same day, insurers often won't reimburse doctors for each separate treatment.

"Suppose I surgically remove a mole from a patient and I schedule a follow-up visit," said Epperly, who is also president of the American Academy of Family Physicians. "During the follow-up visit, if I also check and treat the patient for hypertension, those are two different services."

His concern is that insurance companies won't reimburse him for the two different services because he provided them to his patient during the same office visit."

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