Kim,
And your solution to competition is what?
I’ve no doubt others will take on the specific issue of competitive bidding but I’m more interested in your comments on discounting below Medicare prices. Your post seems to be more directed in anger against those who compete with pricing. The only alternative I know of is called price fixing and it’s illegal. So you consider us “guilty” of discounting below Medicare? If you can keep your prices high, more power to you but I am not placing profits before people by discounting below Medicare allowable. Nor am I gaining an “unfair” advantage by doing so. Nor is doing so evidence of “greed”
and has no rational relationship to what happened with Enron, World Com, or Anderson.
Harold Anderson CO
Roadrunner Orthotics
Kim Ruhl wrote:
> I find the entire subject of wanting to stop the government from obtaining what is rightfully theirs, (discounted services in the form of competitive bidding) laughable. People in this field want to have their cake and eat it too. They want competitive bidding when it means they are the exclusive beneficiary to the contract. They don’t want competitive bidding when their competitor becomes the exclusive contract beneficiary.
> If you as an owner, manager, or other individual responsible for setting and negotiating prices are complaining about the current state of affairs ask yourself this simple question. Have I been routinely discounting below Medicare prices in order to obtain more business or exclusive business? If the answer is yes look in the mirror because the person staring back is in part responsible for this situation. Where or how do you think congress got the idea that our industry is over charging for services rendered?
> For those of you who have resisted this type of discounting (Is there anybody left out there?) guilt by association is sadly your lot.
> My opinion: This field needs a purge from the hypocrites who say one thing but do something else. Discounting below Medicare prices is nothing more and nothing less than placing profits over people in order to gain an unfair advantage in the marketplace. Greed is what it has always been and you need to look no further than Enron, World Com, Anderson and etc. to see the sad epithet that this type of rationalizing produces. Bottom line if your hands are clean, they are clean, if they aren’t blame yourself, and quit your whining. Just remember this, the cat is already out of the bag.
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> Kim L. Ruhl C.P.O.
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