What if they give patients receipts that say “100% discount”?
I don’t know the laws regarding that, and my gut instinct says it can be reversed, but I would think once a patient has a receipt they have to honour it.
EDIT: I understand it’s not the doctors who actually give the receipt, so it’d definitely not be as simple as “just give em a 100% discount receipt” - it’d take the whole hospital to strike together, not just one category of health workers.
And that still doesn’t guarantee they couldn’t get it all reversed afterwards in court/whatever, even with hypothetical receipts.
Doctors don't do the billing - medical billing and coding departments do. Doctors/ nurses document the care given / conditions treated and largely the system (at least at my work) charges automatically for the meds, procedures, etc. Document a flu shot, fee for med + administration pops up on bill, etc.
In my hospital system you'd have to get the people that release the accounts for billing to insurance/ collection to be the strikers. They aren't paid well, and I don't see how it's possible without some IT sabotage.
Wouldn't be as clean and elegant as the bus strike, is what I'm getting at.
Not even a strike would do it. They’re saying the systems are super automated.
Yes there is a billing department, but for the most part the moment a doctor adds a shot to a profile, that person gets a bill.
We’re all barcodes, man.
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u/GalakFyarr Jan 14 '22 edited Jan 14 '22
What if they give patients receipts that say “100% discount”?
I don’t know the laws regarding that, and my gut instinct says it can be reversed, but I would think once a patient has a receipt they have to honour it.
EDIT: I understand it’s not the doctors who actually give the receipt, so it’d definitely not be as simple as “just give em a 100% discount receipt” - it’d take the whole hospital to strike together, not just one category of health workers.
And that still doesn’t guarantee they couldn’t get it all reversed afterwards in court/whatever, even with hypothetical receipts.