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Home-Health-Care Providers
Daniel H. Cannon, MD
New Albany, Ind
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(11):1115.
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I read with considerable interest the article by the American Medical Association Home Care Advisory Panel published in the February issue of the Archices.1 My fee for a house call is $40, of which Medicare approves $30 and pays $24. Visiting nurses, whom I authorize, receive over $60 for making the call, plus extras for any services they provide.
I complained to Medicare and was informed that the nurses did not get that money, their company did, and their company paid the nurses and had to supply automobiles, office space, telephones, and support. My reply to them, "My office had the same overhead if not more," did not elicit a response.
I receive no money for taking care of patients who are being seen by the home—health-care nurses, and yet every month I must sign all sorts of papers authorizing this, that, and the other thing in the continued
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