Docmos - Putting Cash Back in Your Hands
May 27, 2008 | General
Docmos is a company I have recently founded with several other people that tackles a fundamental problem in health care: Providers do not compete on the value (i.e., quality over cost) they deliver to the end consumer. This, of course, creates the situation where costs can spiral out of control.
Our company has chosen to target the radiological services industry (which cost US health care more than $100 billion last year). Rather than competing just on quality, through our company radiology facilities will be able to compete on cost in order to attract patients. This is fundamental change and truly a step closer to an “open market.” Please take a look at our website, www.docmos.com, to see value proposition.
Sincerely,
Herb Singh, MD, CEO
Docmos http://www.docmos.com/
Main: 888.587.6333
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Comment by Brad May 28, 2008
Docmos is yet another ‘yellow page’ for imaging services. I think Dr. Singh is wasting his time in creating another ‘middle-man’ agency.
What people want is to know the cost online for every single procedure code. Where is ‘open-market’? in Docmos.
In his model, the imaging services will pay Docmos for getting business. It means, they would charge the patients more or provide inferior quality or both.
Healthcare is in crisis only because of millions of ‘middle-men’ agencies and docmos is one more. That is it.
Brad
Comment by George May 28, 2008
Brad is right. It is one more in the league of millions of middle-men agencies in the healthcare industry.
Imaging services industry works as follows:
Your doctor refers you to a particular imaging center for an MRI. Some centers are owned by doctors themselves. Your doctor gets 10-20% commission from these centers. For a $2000 service, your doctor gets $200-400. Without referrals, these centers can not function.
If you go thru a company like Docsys, it gets that $200-400 as commission. Out of this amount, it pays you up to $100 back. But in this process, your doctor is ignored; when you take the results back to your doctor, he/she would say that the quality of the imaging service is poor. The patient is the loser ultimately.
We do not need middle-men. Just get rid of them.
George M