Balance Billing: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Headed?

How did we get here and where are we going?

How Did We Get Here?

W hen we talk among ourselves about our business, we use lots of abbreviations and acronyms. We take a lot of things for granted. To understand what I’m talking about all you need to do is try to explain how you get paid to somebody. AWP, WAC, discount, PBM, RA, EOB, DIR, copay, insured amount, rebate, clawback, etc. This is the barrier we face when talking to legislators. We are in a complicat...

How did we get here?

I t is rare that science owes a debt to law. To lawmakers, surely, such as those who regularly make generous appropriations to the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. But law, in the sense of the process and products of litigation? It’s hard to imagine. But this special supplement is deeply in debt to law in just that sense. The funding that supports the research ...

The multiskilled health practitioner movement: where are we and how did we get here?

Multiskilled practitioners have been in health care settings for a long time. The form multiskilled practitioners have taken has varied with the cultural, socioeconomic, and technological constructs of the times. Some multiskilled practitioners have come and gone while others, such as the medical assistant and physician assistant, have remained. The complexity and sophistication of skills being...

Manslaughter--how did we get here?

Dr Michael J Powers QC Clerksroom & ADR Chambers, Taunton A meeting of the Medico-Legal Society was held at The Medical Society of London, 11 Chandos Street, London W1, on Thursday, 13 January 2005. The President, Dr Neville Davis, MBE, was in the Chair. The President: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I think we are in for another treat this evening. Standing on my left, Michael Powers is ve...