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Doctors bailing out of workers' comp program
Houston Business Journal - December 12, 2003by Allison WollamHouston Business Journal
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Increased hassles, new training requirements and reimbursement cuts are prompting local doctors to opt out of the state's workers' compensation program in droves, leaving patients scrambling to find a physician to treat job-related injuries.
The number of Texas physicians registered to provide treatment within the workers' compensation system has dropped from 30,000 to about 13,000 in the past year, according to the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission. Specific figures for the Houston market were not available.
In the past few months, the commission has voted to cut payments to Texas doctors by up to half, and some physicians say the system could be on the verge of collapse.
Indeed, more than half of the 45 physicians in the Fondren Orthopedic Group have recently opted out of the workers' compensation program.
Dr. G. William Woods, president and CEO of Fondren Orthopedic Group LLP, says it costs twice as much to care for workers' compensation patients as it does for Medicare patients.
"It completely eats up our administrative time, and doctors are acting as clerks instead of taking care of patients," says Woods. "Our time can certainly be used better by taking care of other patients."
A recent study conducted by the Fondren Orthopedic Group, which Woods co-authored, shows that practice expenses, including increased paperwork and other administrative activities, is much higher when dealing with workers' compensation patients.
The study, published by "The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery," found that the average orthopedic practice expense for treating a Medicare patient is $148, whereas an HMO patient costs $208 to treat. That compares to $299 for treating a workers' compensation patient.
Specifically, the study found that providing in-office patient service costs a practice an average of $20.43 for a Medicare patient compared to $55.06 for a workers' comp patient.
"It was a no-brainer business decision to opt out," says Woods.
Woods estimates that 20 percent of his patients were workers' comp patients. Despite a decrease in patient load, he expects to see a rise in revenue because he'll be working with less costly patients.
Linda McKee, a spokeswoman for the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission, admits the program has seen a decrease in the amount of participating physicians but says the numbers aren't as bad as they may appear.
"The doctors who were the real players in the system continue to be in the program," she says.
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