My doctors have always taken whatever opportunity they have to talk to me about my health. After all, they get money from either me or my insurance to do just that. When you’re talking about a handful of minutes to do so, I’m pretty sure it’s just billed as a standard visit. There’s no special code for “talked to patient about losing weight to reduce risk of diabetes” or whatever.
And yet, there’s been a push to use Medicaid money for something not unlike what I mentioned above.
Now, our tax dollars are few and far between, at least the way the federal government spends them, and we’re heavily in debt as a nation, so we need to be careful of what we spend money on.
By Tom Knighton
