Cigna CEO has mad over $350M in compensation from 2012-2021. statnews.com/2022/05/12/hea…
Doctor Money Matters
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Doctor Money Matters
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- Combining physician pay with total hospital costs and saying both are too high and then claiming admin costs are just fine is 100% intellectual dishonesty. Pure agenda pushing.
- If you are gonna keep pushing to employ physicians at the large health systems, this is whats coming. Be careful what you wish for health system CEOs Nearly 400 primary care doctors at Mass General, Brigham and Women’s hospitals file to unionize.
- One of the biggest celebrities @KimKardashian is freely(#notanad she says) promoting a co that scans asymptomatic people. Most MDs advise against this. Who will people trust? You already know the answer (but @washingtonpost thinks doctors are the greedy ones)😞
- Shocker he sells supplements🤦🏽♂️🤣
That’s a blood clot… How much you want to make a bet he received the COVID vaccine? - I’m sick of finance bros acting like docs don’t want patients to get information. You wanna pay for a test that has very limited utility, do it. We’re not hiding anything from you. You want to discuss the results with techbro startups who only care about you as a revenue. Go4itHonest question: What part of medical school teaches doctors to fight against doing full bloodwork panels? I got a full work up. Hormones, cancer markers, etc. 5+ of my friends went and asked PCPs for it. ALL of them fought back. You don’t need it. Unnecessary stress. Why
- This is becoming a race to the bottom. There is zero incentive for US citizens to become physicians anymore. Why go through the headaches and expense and years of delaying life to study/train when some jackass politicians decide they know better than you about healthcare.HB 67 just passed in NC allows foreign trained docs to obtain a license and practice without completing a US Residency and no requirement to have passed USMLE. Doesn’t seem safe to me. Training is very different in other countries and I think this puts patients at risk. Certainly
- Dumbest thread of the yearI do healthcare consulting for a living. It is simple math that we cannot reduce healthcare costs in this country without reducing the amounts we pay doctors and hospitals. Dr's cannot make $30k/hour in an affordable system.
- Horrendous take here. Complaining about a neurosurgeons salary instead of focusing on the issue at hand. Physician incomes are 8% of healthcare costs, admin costs are 25%. That is the issueNew rule, if you are at the top of the physician income ladder you do not get to speak about Medicaid, reimbursement or otherwise. You should just be quiet and enjoy your enormous salary. Respectfully.
- $8M for a hospital to advertise to the nation. 🤔🤦🏽♂️ Why do “nonprofit” health systems have chief marketing officers making 7figures? But employed doctors are limited by (un)fair market value.
GIF - I’m at the health policy guys office and I’m still waiting for coherent policy that will protect patients and health care professionals & not pander to the insurance, hospital & pharma industries instead. I’ve been waiting my entire life. Why can’t policy people get it done?I'm at the pediatrician office for a well child visit with my daughter. Appointment was 9:20. Vitals taken and paperwork filled out, but still waiting to see a doctor. Reason #30584 of why healthcare in the US sucks. Why can every other sector keep appts, but physicians can't?
- A thread in a physician FB group in which a spine surgeon has to do a “peer to peer” for insurance preauthorization with a chiropractor. A cardiologist has to with a podiatrist. Another surgeon with a nurse. This is real and patients deserve to know what is happening. $UNH
