Comments on: Docmos - Putting Cash Back in Your Hands http://www.healthcare-blog.com/2008/docmos-putting-cash-back-in-your-hands/ Consumer Directed Healthcare News, Health Advice, and Industry Opinions Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:37:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: George http://www.healthcare-blog.com/2008/docmos-putting-cash-back-in-your-hands/#comment-29569 George Wed, 28 May 2008 17:02:06 +0000 http://www.healthcare-blog.com/?p=128#comment-29569 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 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

]]> By: Brad http://www.healthcare-blog.com/2008/docmos-putting-cash-back-in-your-hands/#comment-29568 Brad Wed, 28 May 2008 15:11:49 +0000 http://www.healthcare-blog.com/?p=128#comment-29568 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 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

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