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EMR charges - travelinMT

Posted: Feb 21, 2010

Has anyone else noticed an EMR charge on their bill from their doctor's office? My son went to the doctor the other day and when he brought home his receipt it was a nicely printed out list of all charges for his past few visits. I picked it up to look at it and was amused, to say the least, every visit has a $10 charge for EMR. So that's how they are paying for the nifty little hand-held computers they are using when they are in the exam room with you??? Made me wonder whether or not they are having to pay a required fee to download their records into the "national database"? If not they will have those computers paid off in no time at our expense.

Don't get me wrong I am not against the concept of being able to access your medical records in the event of an emergency but it seems no one has mentioned the patient is going to be paying to make it happen.

Ya, paying 10 extra bux probably because - Kiki

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it takes each visit a little bit longer so they have to see less patients. I know at my last doc visit I was sitting there twiddling my thumbs waiting for the doc to finish typing. She was typing on her screen more than talking to me. So SOMEONE has to pay for that and it ain't gonna be the doctors/hospitals....it's gonna be the patient...both in TIME and money.

So why don't they save time and just dictate and charge - the patient for that?

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n/m

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