EMR testimonials: Better for billing or better for patients?
Patients weigh in on the good, bad and ugly of EMRs, tackling whether they are mostly instruments to maximize patient billings, whether they interfere with physician-patient interactions and how they improve care coordination.
A former member of a health cooperative shared his thoughts: “It used to be the case that a standard office visit was a flat charge—most recently $80. Now, when your physician asks a question, responds to one of yours, and makes a note in your record, this becomes another billing code. The result is that a 15-minute office visit can easily run to several hundred dollars, perhaps just because you mention a concern or the physician asks another question.”
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