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Originally Posted by Rainger99
According to the article, the fee is being charged by doctors that have been bought out by hospitals. It doesn’t appear that the doctor’s costs have gone up.
Facility fees are commonly seen in hospital-owned outpatient clinics and are increasingly appearing in other outpatient settings when hospitals acquire physician practices.
Didn’t the doctor have rent and maintenance before they started charging facility fees?
This is like a hotel charging $300 a night for the room and then adding on a mandatory resort fee.
The doctor’s fee should be the total cost of providing services plus an added fee for profit.
If you start breaking everything down, the fees are endless.
If a doctor really wants to make money, the doctor could also add a fee for utilities, office cleaning, an office staff fee, a Christmas party fee, etc., etc.
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its a billing distinction, of pure doctor / medical and then rent, overhead, etc.
yes, it used to be all in one. . and i will check to see when and who, i suspect CMS, started demanding the two be split out, so that all medical services are identified separately from rent/ operational overhead. medical then should be billed per procedure to medicare. . facilities are dependent upon the local situation. .
the biggest problem is that there are two bills instead of one now.