yet another newspaper story

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http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=207573 & ac=PHnws & pg=2 the good things a bout this article are

1 They did not take my picture and 2 She did a pretty good (if incomplete, compared to what I told her) job with the concepts , quoting both of the Gordons .'She also talked to Earl freeman which is nice- we used to see him on the listserv..

I tried to get her to talk to Walter love but I can never pronounce the name of his darned Medomak family Practice...

Agree, Stark is there to be sure that hospitals are not paying for referrals. If you have a coverage contract that should not be a problem. Would charge her big time.

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From: on behalf of l_spikol

Sent: Sun 8/31/2008 6:41 AM

To:

Subject: Re: Stark question

I think there is no problem.I would bill her $500-$1000 PER DAY in

ADDITION to billing insurance.(I assume you also field hospital

questions.)

>

> Hi all,

> As some of you know, I have been hornswaggled by my hospitalist

colleague

> into covering for her so she can visit kids at college, and now

husband in a

> remote western state (one of the Dakotas, I think).

>

> I sort of like the medicine of it, but I hate how much it disrupts my

> personal life. Last time it was a census of 18 in house on top of my

> clinic which just about killed me. So, I keep making noises about not

> wanting to keep doing it, soooooo, now she is wanting to pay me to

keep me

> interested in doing it. Up until now, I just have been billing the

> insurances for my services and it has cost her nothing. Considering

that

> she says she makes $400K per year to my $34K, I figure she can

afford to pay

> me.

>

> BUT, what about Stark? I once covered for a solo doc to go on

vacation. He

> paid me a flat $/day and I don't know how he billed for the visits,

but I

> don't refer to him nor he to me. But with my hospitalist, we DO refer to

> eachother. Now we all know that if she pays me to do her job for

her so she

> can go on vacations, that is NOT a kickback for referrals, but could

we get

> in trouble anyway? Does anyone have experience with this scenario?

> Annie

>

>

> --

> Annie Skaggs

> Lexington, KY

>

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