How much should your doctor get paid for an office visit? If health insurance were not pervasive, you would probably pay by the minute. However, primary care physicians’ fees are not necessarily based on time. Rather, they are reimbursed based on billing codes for various tasks while examining you.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Should Nonprofit Hospitals Do More to Earn Their Tax Exemption?
There are nearly 3,000 nonprofit hospitals in the United States. Keep in mind, nonprofit status is a tax election. It does not mean a hospital is not trying to earn a profit. Rather, it means a hospital is trying to either: a) break even by spending its profits on a charitable mission, or b) plowing profits back into expansion. Hospitals tend to do the latter, rather than the former.
Thursday Links
- 172 physicians hold active licenses in all 50 states. Another 356 doctors have acquired at least 45 licenses. (Statnews)
- Hormesis explained.
- Medicare Trust Fund explained.
- Secret ingredient for tasty yogurt: ants
- A one-year extension of the enhanced EPTCs would cost about $38 billion. The cost of the government shutdown is about $44.7 million lost GDP per week. So, a long shutdown would appear to be worth it.
- What Mamdani could and couldn’t do as Mayor of NYC.
Wednesday Links
- The equivalent of about $1,800 per person in America will be invested this year on A.I.
- Are the Obamacare exchanges unstable?
- Is Trump offering universities a deal they can’t refuse?
- Birth cohort effect: “Those born in 1990 have a two- to threefold increased risk of certain cancers compared with those born in 1955.
- Nearly 5.8 million low-income older adults are eligible for the programs to help them pay Medicare costs but are not enrolled … The applications can run as long as 30 pages in some states. (NYT)
- DIY Health care: Quest Diagnostics now offers more than 150 options directly to consumers — from $29 blood counts to a $385 health profile that evaluates heart, kidney, and liver functions.