$300 ADMIT payment for undoctored patients

[Guest guest]

Got an email back from my IM hospital coverage group.

" will talk with call group tomorrow when we routinely meet

hospital is paying ....gulp...$300 for undoctored patients up front

and then the doc will bill the patient.

All has to do with reciprocity, equal onus, and market forces

of costs of securing hospitalist care.

Now if your patient were " undoctored " upon hitting the ED,

hospital would pay some one( my group takes about one out of

every 10 undoctored in the rotation ) $300 as a one time fee

and the patient pays after that... ( hospital is changing this system

but that's the way it is right now.)

So..... lets keep talking "

Well, let's see what happens here. The guy is really nice. I've

been to his house for dinner. I'm curious where this

will go. . .

Pamela