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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My Dad's a doctor.  A company bought the clinic he works for and increased all the use fees for the clinic.  They basically increased the amount doctors are expected to contribute to facilities by a huge amount. They also started acting as a middlemen for the scribes so the scribes get the same pay, but now the clinic charges the physicians a huge amount extra for them.  Nickel and diming all around.

Basically the MBA/corporation types are raking in profits off the backs of the doctors. My Dad's a specialist and his billings are fine but his younger colleagues  particularly those with medical school debt, are struggling, particularly with COVID canceling their routine/well/elective visits, which bill better. This is happening at clinics around the country. [/quote]

This!  Medicine looks very different that in the 80s for many reasons but this is the latest trend.  It’s mimicking what’s happened with college costs, price increases but none of it goes to the doctor. Medicine is increasingly becoming admin heavy and that’s what drives the high prices. If you look up “facility” fees vs doctor fees, you’ll see doctors get reimbursed very little for their services.

OP shouldn’t be judging wealth by house size, but there has been a big shift in medicine and a career that traditionally made a good salary, no longer does, especially when accounting for time/money spent on training. [/quote]

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