Fwd: [OANDP-L] traditional referral relationships
Eric Eisenberg
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Title:
Fwd: [OANDP-L] traditional referral relationships
Creator:
Eric Eisenberg
Date:
5/24/2012
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Another traditional referral response.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartphone
----- Forwarded message -----
From: Konrad Walz < <Email Address Redacted> >
To: < <Email Address Redacted> >
Subject: [OANDP-L] traditional referral relationships
Date: Thu, May 24, 2012 8:32 am
Did you ever stop to think that a business relationship between a Doc and a provider benefits all, especially patients? Patients these days are well educated as well as in a hurry most of the time. I make my personal appointments for Doctors and imaging first and foremost out of convince. Why do you assume that shenanigans are the norm and not the exception? Do you have any proof that kickbacks are going on or just a business arrangement that provides a service in a market that rewords that service by being able to make money.
You are concerned with making money, right? You complained last time about the VA doing work in-house? I wonder if you would feel the same way if VA reimbursement and policy followed the same rules and regs and fee for service schedule as Medicare? Would you like to see the whole VA system done away with and the government just pays other hospitals to provide all the services that the VA provides, as well as see an increase in your taxes to pay for it? Or do you just want that for the O&P patient and then just send them all to you with the people's tax dollars in hand to pay you up front cash 110% of the usual and customary?
In other words, the elite Practices will survive and even flourish while the mediocre will, as the dinosaur, become extinct. I hope this finds you well
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartphone
----- Forwarded message -----
From: Konrad Walz < <Email Address Redacted> >
To: < <Email Address Redacted> >
Subject: [OANDP-L] traditional referral relationships
Date: Thu, May 24, 2012 8:32 am
Did you ever stop to think that a business relationship between a Doc and a provider benefits all, especially patients? Patients these days are well educated as well as in a hurry most of the time. I make my personal appointments for Doctors and imaging first and foremost out of convince. Why do you assume that shenanigans are the norm and not the exception? Do you have any proof that kickbacks are going on or just a business arrangement that provides a service in a market that rewords that service by being able to make money.
You are concerned with making money, right? You complained last time about the VA doing work in-house? I wonder if you would feel the same way if VA reimbursement and policy followed the same rules and regs and fee for service schedule as Medicare? Would you like to see the whole VA system done away with and the government just pays other hospitals to provide all the services that the VA provides, as well as see an increase in your taxes to pay for it? Or do you just want that for the O&P patient and then just send them all to you with the people's tax dollars in hand to pay you up front cash 110% of the usual and customary?
In other words, the elite Practices will survive and even flourish while the mediocre will, as the dinosaur, become extinct. I hope this finds you well
Citation
Eric Eisenberg, “Fwd: [OANDP-L] traditional referral relationships,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/233632.
