Comments on: UnitedHealth Group ex-CEO forfeits $620 million http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/007 from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:13:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: AAPS News of the Day » Blog Archive » Insurers under investigation for fraudulent reimbursement rates http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/007#comment-662 AAPS News of the Day » Blog Archive » Insurers under investigation for fraudulent reimbursement rates Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:50:19 +0000 http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/007#comment-662 [...] “UnitedHealth Group Ex-CEO Forfeits $620 Million,” AAPS News of the Day 1/1/08. [...] [...] “UnitedHealth Group Ex-CEO Forfeits $620 Million,” AAPS News of the Day 1/1/08. [...]

]]> By: Howard Long MD MPH http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/007#comment-33 Howard Long MD MPH Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:49:16 +0000 http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/007#comment-33 Patient first is NOT insurer priority. "Who pays the piper calls the tune" Ergo: Doctors paid by insurers do not put the patient first. Resist the seduction. I have accepted ony cash at the time of service and from the patient only, as would a restaurant, for 2 years. Patients who left to go where insurer pays, about equal the number coming because dissatisfied with Kaiser, Medicaid or other dictated "care". Patient first is NOT insurer priority.
“Who pays the piper calls the tune”

Ergo: Doctors paid by insurers do not put the patient first.

Resist the seduction. I have accepted ony cash at the time of service and from the patient only, as would a restaurant,
for 2 years. Patients who left to go where insurer pays, about equal the number coming because dissatisfied with Kaiser, Medicaid or other dictated “care”.

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