decide a few charts are miscoded, upcoded or downcoded, they can fine you not only 10,000 per claim but look at how many medicare patients you saw in two years, multi-apply that by x peeves and you re faced with hundreds of thousands of fines. the new bill will be $50,000 per claim. th hard to see a patient under medicare with this fear. that s not way to practice medicine. neil: let me ask you this, i wish we had more time but i wanted to ask you this. i talked to a urologist in florida who is taking your tack. i said why don t you take cash and have them deal with the monstrosity of this? he said that was not an option. for you, the same? i ll tell you something very interesting. in 1990 when this law i mentioned went into effect and
i don t know who is going to retire earlier than the they otherwise would but i predict you re going to see that happening. neil: my seriously, i know it s difficult doing what you do period and not your office in particular but a lot of doctors offices have aids and administer traitors and everyone trying to keep up with the paperwork. i don t know how you do this on the system we have, now you have layers upon layers more. you re essentially saying no mass right? that s right. we have a breaking point and there s a point at which the system becomes too much to deal with. for example, its been years since medicare made the coding for office visits complex and impossible. if you get audited and they
they coupled the fines with the coding system, i asked medicare patientsfy dropped out of the system, would you still see me? if a doctor drops out of medicare, the government forces them to do it all or none so none of my parents would have patients would have been reimbursed. i dropped out of the system, only 10% saw me. i literally had to move my practice ten miles north where there are students can acne, because they disappeared from scottsdale. i regrew my practice. you can not maintain a practice if the patient doesn t have insurance reimbursement. neil: well put. i hope things turn around but you re bold to talk like you are. be well, good seeing you. thank you very much. tax day protests are under way. how will the mainstream media
this at the time. if we do not, and if we don t do anything about it, then america is going to become a second-rate power economically and militarily and there s no doubt it and the facts are there for everyone and they re agreed upon. the debt is getting so big that it will be 60% of the gross domestic product, unheard of for america. neil: you say understood. you say we have to, then, touch the sacred cows, entitlement programs and spending on them. say we don t, because washington history is the opposite. then what? i say we have to produce a plan that is the result of putting everybody on the table. that means all of the entitlements have to be reduced in terms of what they cost, they have to be modified and amended. asked, medicare, medicaid. then we have to reduce all the rest of the expenditures,
arizona. what is making you do this? i wish i didn t have to put that sign on the door but the practice is working under an honor system many years and i m i afraid the health bill will make it worse. neil: you ve indicated you want to stop practicing in 2014 when all this hits the gravy train, right? that s when we know it will be implemented. neil: you ll be about 65. i wonder whether this is just retirement. you know, i would love to practice. i enjoying practicing without constraints of government, medicare, et cetera. if we hadn t had these constraints, you wouldn t hear me talk about this at all. but it s getting more difficult for any practitioner to work with a free mind, and this is not something new. this has been going on many years. i think if you spoke to most, they have the same thoughts.