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Originally Posted by ilovetv
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I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a physician-geriatrician who wants to be an office manager! Anybody going into geriatrics is going to be a person who loves treating patients, not doing the drudge paperwork shuffle that results in exceedingly low reimbursements from Medicare/medicaid in the end, anyway. The twisted mess of billing insurance and Medicare and Medicaid, and the huge uncollected debt the physicians assume is why primary care docs can't make it in private practice, AND why these subsidized, for-set-salary physician jobs are being created in this clinic model in the first place.
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I think you may misunderstand the meaning of office manager in the context of The Villages Clinics. When I read about it in the newspaper I believe I read that the manager would have 1,250 patients just like the others.
Why talk about medicare reimbursement when all the doctors will be on salary anyway? The GPs will be on salary and the geriatrician could be on salary too.