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Giving Away Care
Is it legal to give free care to anyone? Can we give free care to our employees that are self-pay? What if they have Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance?
Question: Is it legal to give free care to anyone? Can we give free care to our employees that are self-pay? What if they have Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance?
Answer: If patients are insured, I assume we are talking about making the patient responsibility-free but you’d still be billing the payer. Don’t do it. It’s a breach of your contract with commercial payers and Medicare looks upon it as an illegal inducement.
Frankly, I don’t think you should see your employees at all, since breaches of privacy and conflicts of interest are darned near inevitable. If you do, the rules for them are no different than the rules for everyone else.
You can sure offer time-of-service discounts to self-pay patients.
Asset Protection and Financial Planning
December 6th 2021Asset protection attorney and regular Physicians Practice contributor Ike Devji and Anthony Williams, an investment advisor representative and the founder and president of Mosaic Financial Associates, discuss the impact of COVID-19 on high-earner assets and financial planning, impending tax changes, common asset protection and wealth preservation mistakes high earners make, and more.
Reducing burnout with medical scribes
November 29th 2021Physicians Practice® spoke with Fernando Mendoza, MD, FAAP, FACEP, the founder and CEO of Scrivas, LLC, about the rising rates of reported burnout among physicians and how medical scribes might be able to alleviate some pressures from physicians.
