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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MD here. It’s a billing thing. Our emr pulls from our notes so if we document it- you’ll be charged. If you truly want a free visit - do not bring anything up and just focus on your general preventative stuff but honestly it’s so hard to get a doctor’s appointment, I’d just pay the bill. In my own life, I suck it up and pay my own pcp so I understand this also from a patient’s perspective, Also it’s a bit frustrating for people to blame the doctors for this, esp primary care doctors who don’t make much and we need more of. Talk to your legislators about free health care for all. [b]Don’t blame someone for doing their job, billing appropriately for the work they’ve done [/b]and just trying to make a living after years of training and debt. [/quote]

I do blame the doctor. They are with you less than 15 minutes. And I see the EOBs. You get a couple hundred for the well-visit, and then want another $150 or whatever for the SAME visit that fit into the SAME 15 minutes. Plus you do the labs in house so you are skimming profit off those too. So you think you should make $400+ per quarter hour?

This goes against any rational sense that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. You are going to make people skip preventative care and only see someone when there is an urgent issue. I still remember our doctors practically begging us to still come for physicals in the early days of covid because no one was going to doctors and they were hurting for revenue. Is that what you want to happen?[/quote]

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