Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With even minor treatment requiring detailed reports, many busy doctors find they can no longer get along with just a receptionist or nurse, are hiring a new kind of medical officeworker-the "insurance secretary." The expense is passed on to the patient (some doctors now charge a special $3 fee for form-filling...
...something about the case." But doctors complain that insurance forms are not realistic, are more detailed than necessary and too diverse. Most frequent complaint: basic information about a patient's birthplace, business, earlier illnesses, etc. must be provided on most follow-up forms each time he gets new treatment. One Los Angeles physician gave a patient a simple penicillin shot, had to call him back for a second visit when the form also required a general health checkup. A Denver obstetrician simply ignores one insurance-form question: Was the pregnancy an accident...
...Different. A survey conducted by the Health Insurance Council shows that companies have far too many different ways of inquiring about diagnosis (26), present status (34) and treatment prescribed (46). Doctors have long sought simplified, standardized forms (some have even printed their own), but most insurance companies refuse to budge. Smaller companies seem particularly addicted to longer questionnaires ("The smaller the firm, the bigger the form," is an axiom in the profession). Doctors are also annoyed by some companies which, when they are unsatisfied with physicians' replies, corral neighbors to report on patients in an effort to avoid paying...
Doctors concede that insurance plans have helped provide prompt payment of bills, but many also complain that patients who receive insurance checks direct spend them for other things, leaving the doctor to wait for his fee. All doctors agree that the most urgently indicated treatment is fewer and simpler forms. Says one: "It would be the greatest headache remedy since aspirin...
...state churches of Lutheran persuasion might confess how far they went astray in their suppression of Anabaptists. The Church of Scotland might contemplate its pressure against dissenting minorities, and the churches of South Africa their sins of the past towards others. New England Congregationalists might pray pardon for their treatment of Quakers, and Friends for their refusal to protect the Scots on the frontier. Virginia Anglicans might ponder whether their failure 350 years after Jamestown to number more than a fraction of the Baptists and Methodists in that state is not due to their reluctance to admit tyranny before...