Re: Giving medical advice on phone without compensation

[Guest guest]

Telephone consulatation is actually very common in the Atlanta area. I have stopped all telephone consultations.

I sent you an email. call me lets get together and exchange ideas

To: Sent: Sun, December 5, 2010 4:42:07 PMSubject: Giving medical advice on phone without compensation

Does anyone have any ideas for getting compensation for telephone advice? I would love to add telephone visits/consults to my practice as some patient complain that they cannot always make their clinic visits for fear of job retaliation. They call in to try to get me to prescribe antibiotics for "sinus infections" which I refuse to do. Any thoughts? Robbins, MD

The Robbins Health Alliance 1324 Rockbridge Road, SW Stone Mountain, GA 30087 PH: Fax: www.robbinshealth.com

Your first choice for Internal and Holistic Medicine.

While on the one hand I don't really feel I can afford staff right now I also don't feel I can take on more patients without hiring staff.

[Guest guest]

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Ben

While on the one hand I don't really feel I can afford staff right now I also don't feel I can take on more patients without hiring staff.

[Guest guest]

We added phone visits but won’t do them

unless we (or the patient) is out of town if Steve would otherwise see them in

the office (for sinusitis, etc). We have it in the “non-covered services” part

of our financial policy so that when the insurance company doesn’t pay for it,

we can directly bill the patient. You might consider hours outside of “normal”

office hours to accommodate working patients 1-2 days per week.

Pratt

Office Manager

Oak Tree Internal Medicine P.C

www.prattmd.info

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Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010

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Giving medical advice on phone without compensation

Does anyone have any

ideas for getting compensation for telephone advice? I would love to add

telephone visits/consults to my practice as some patient complain that they

cannot always make their clinic visits for fear of job retaliation.

They call in to try to get me to prescribe antibiotics for " sinus

infections " which I refuse to do. Any thoughts?

Robbins, MD

The

Robbins Health Alliance

1324

Rockbridge Road, SW

Stone Mountain, GA 30087

PH:

Fax:

www.robbinshealth.com

Your first choice for Internal and

Holistic Medicine.

While on the one hand I don't really

feel I can afford staff right now I also don't feel I can take on more

patients without hiring staff.

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your ideas.-The Robbins Health Alliance 1324 Rockbridge Road, SW Stone Mountain, GA 30087 PH: Fax: www.robbinshealth.com Your first choice for Internal and Holistic Medicine.

While on the one hand I don't really feel I can afford staff right now I also don't feel I can take on more patients without hiring staff.