Anesthesia-Thompson

Anesthesiologist in Austin, TX

[Anesthesia-Thompson @John83705269]

@EdGainesIII So disingenuous for them to argue that if only Congress will make it legal for the insurers to pay below-market prices, THEN they can address rising costs…

[Robert Behrens @rcb05]

Retweet if your school is still competing for a natty in both football and volleyball.

[Anesthesia-Thompson @John83705269]

@WeAreAustinTV @dyvmedia Correct choice by Stuver.
Son is too good 1 v 1 and it looked like Stu had 50/50 shot zo smack that into the seats.

[Anesthesia-Thompson @John83705269]

@Drewtamu Absolutely robbed of a Heismanreel gamewinning run which would have put him well north of 100 yards rushing by a manufactured holding call. Be better, refs.

[Verde City Limits 🌳⚽️ @VerdeCityLimits]

🧤 625 saves in five seasons, no keeper’s done it better.

Brad Stuver now holds the most saves over any five-year span in MLS history. The heartbeat between the posts #AustinFC

[Anesthesia-Thompson @John83705269]

@knottabott @realdocspeaks It is a measure of where we are as a society, that upon seeing the headline, I immediately thought it was fom “The Onion”

[Anesthesia-Thompson @John83705269]

@InvestingDoc Undo the ACA. Their endorsement of same is what lost many (most?) physicians and it has been a disaster for nearly everyone except for insurance company executives & their stockholders.

[Ed Gaines @EdGainesIII]

1/Gentle reminder to the physician advocacy community to ask (yet again!) your member of Congress to co-sponsor & actively support HR 879 in the next 2 weeks as we face a mid March deadline (3/14/25) to prevent a gov’t shutdown. HR 879 would reverse the -2.83% Medicare cuts that came on 1/1/25 and increase physician pay within a total increase in the conversion factor of ~+6.62% (including reversing the -2.83% cut) from 4/1/25 to 12/31/25.

[Anesthesia-Thompson @John83705269]

@realdocspeaks And executive compensation, anything they declare as overhead - none of that counts.

[Christopher Cook, D.O., FASA @CRCook1978]

Imagine that, an Independent third party IDRE/arbiter defined by federal law sides with Physicians & Healthcare professionals over blood sucking health plans. That actual sounds fair @LorenAdler. @FAIRHealth who is receiving payment data only from the plans & not from the Physicians & other healthcare professionals is left out because guess what… they are not one of the factors that is required to be considered. That was congress’s intent. You know what is not Fair when the health plans lose & they still don’t pay. That’s going to get fixed as well. $10k per NO/LOW/Slow is coming.

[Anesthesia-Thompson @John83705269]

@anish_koka @DOGE Nope.

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@RepGregMurphy @GmOrr9000 Ok, but first check the medicare reimbursement.

[Ed Gaines @EdGainesIII]

Would someone in Congress please call you Marion to testify?

[Anesthesia-Thompson @John83705269]

@fuzzymittens Solution: Give insurers more power. Cut payments to physicians.

[Joshua @LeiferJoshua]

@EdGainesIII Real conflict-of-interest. AARP supposed to be looking out for best interests of retired people most of whom are living on a fixed income.

[Adam Bruggeman, MD @DrBruggeman]

Today my team sat down with our insurance broker. My health insurance premium for my employees went up 30% for our renewal.

The government cut their pay to me and all doctors by 3.37% this year for the first two months then reduced the cut to 1.66% for the remainder of the year.

I’m tired of paid mouthpieces telling Congress and Americans that doctors are the reason for our high healthcare costs. If you agree with me, share this post and let your friends and colleagues know where the money in healthcare is going.

Hint: it isn’t to doctors

[Anesthesia-Thompson @John83705269]

@nedholmanmd @thats_bone @benwhitemd @drmoneymatters @EdGainesIII @Rad_Partners @MStempniak (Continued) Medicare now pays 20.77 for a unit in 2024. The ASA average in 2020 (link provided below) w 3% escalators each year would leave anesthesia at 4.45x that.
https://t.co/9XEHWx1r66

[Anesthesia-Thompson @John83705269]

@nedholmanmd @thats_bone @benwhitemd @drmoneymatters @EdGainesIII @Rad_Partners @MStempniak Again. I really dislike any hint of acknowledging Medicare as any kind of meaningful number. Cms pays what they pay & anesthesia groups take it because it is not nothing. What you describe as “bonkers” (for radiology) would be more like “average” for anesthesia given that: