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Reader responses: How dire is our healthcare crisis?

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, July 9, 2009

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In a recent issue of the Credentialing Resource Center Connection e-mail newsletter, we asked MSPs to share their thoughts about our nation’s so-called broken healthcare system.

Here are a few excerpts from in-the-trenches MSPs. Visit the Credentialing Resource Center blog to read all of the responses and to leave your own comments.

“Our credentialing database feeds a file that goes to 30 different payers each month as our managed care organization is delegated for credentialing approximately 3,500 practitioners…What a monumental waste of effort that would not be required in a single payer health care system.”

“My fear is that our government will formulate universal health care without involving appropriate healthcare people. I'm not talking about physicians who sit on healthcare boards and haven't seen a real patient for years, but frontline healthcare workers who know and see what the real issues are. This should include more than just physicians, but also nurses, quality people, CEO's, CFO's, and even some MSP's sitting around the table when this is discussed.”

“Yes, malfeasant physicians do exist, as do criminals from all walks of life. They are the exception and not the rule. We do not need to build our world around them. A few good laws and the National Practitioner Data Bank suffice.”

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