Bolen Report: Why Every US Health Practitioner Needs To Use ABC Codes, Right Now

[babsbunny]

http://www.bolenreport.net/feature_articles/feature_article051.htm

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Every practitioner in the United States knows that the current US Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) billing code system doesn't work. A whole industry has sprung up around the simple fact that it doesn't work, trying desperately to keep practitioners out of trouble when they attempt to wend their way through the billing miasma.

And, a miasma it is.

Worse, is that the system, cumbersome and confusing, has been contracted out, region by region, to insurance companies - and not necessarily "health" insurance companies, for management. In Los Angeles, for instance, several years ago, when a billing person in a practitioner's office called "Medicare" on the telephone to get assistance, the phone was answered by an employee of a Title Insurance Company.

US Medicare has NO FEDERAL EMPLOYEES. None. It is all contracted out.

Yes, I said Title Insurance . Title insurance is protection against loss arising from problems connected to the title to your real estate property (like your home).

[redqueen]

1. We need universal coverage now.

This is madness. This is why we pay so much more, and get so much LESS for it.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. You do know that Tim Bolen is a notorious spammer?

I'm finding this humorous because he's a known quack and does "Business" in a National Forest (Cleveland National Forest) in California.

Running Business on a National Forest is illegal.

I would _NOT_ give him one iota of credence.

http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/bolen.html

Hawkeye-X

[stillcool]

3. that's weird..

my search revealed pages and pages of Bolen vs. Pomeroy. I know as much now, as I did before I clicked on this post.

[KoKo]

4. This article is a person hawking their business...it sounds like...

If you scan it...it's pushing a business. :shrug: