The AMA pockets hundreds of millions from CPT code royalties, adopted by HHS as the U.S. healthcare standard for billing, reporting, and administration. It’s essentially an AMA tax on US healthcare.
Conventional medicine strikes me as a religion. As near as I can tell, it originated from Pasteur's claim that infective agents are of supreme importance, and a corollary position of the chemical (now pharma) industry that chemical control of those agents is essential to health. One's immune competence is an unwelcome subject, perhaps heretical.
I've been wondering how the religion has become established as government policy. This account of Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance being federally obligated to use the AMA's CPT codes explains one phase of the problem. An investigation of the question would go back to the early 1900's, when licensure of practitioners of other schools of medical thought were barred, at the state level, from being licensed as "medical doctors."
The insights of Dr. Benjamin Rush, who signed the Declaration of Independence, may encourage our quest for medical freedom.
Will this never end? I used to do billing and, of course, had to use the required CPT codes. Had no idea the AMA was profiting from the codes. It's all so disgusting. I'd work for free helping RFKjr ferret out all the money grabbing institutions that take $$$ from the American people. It's just beyond the pale.
We need a more independent body to maintain the CPT code. It also goes beyond "monopoly" - there are some diagnoses that are not recognized in the listing.
The 'Medical Board' is a black box along with these too - what goes in and what comes out, they ain't no tellin'!
Course that's the basic unspoken rule: Don't tell, look the other way, capitulate in all these tiny ways so that when we really go whole-hog killing people, it'll be too late for you to have any integrity!
Remember, in September 2021, AMA, APhA and ASHP opposed the use of Ivermectin in the prevention and treatment of Cov19.
They are organizations that prioritize their own interests over ordinary people's lives.
Corrupt as hell, just like a banana republic country.
Lock the mfs up!
Part of the money grabbing cartel! Get rid of them!
Conventional medicine strikes me as a religion. As near as I can tell, it originated from Pasteur's claim that infective agents are of supreme importance, and a corollary position of the chemical (now pharma) industry that chemical control of those agents is essential to health. One's immune competence is an unwelcome subject, perhaps heretical.
I've been wondering how the religion has become established as government policy. This account of Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance being federally obligated to use the AMA's CPT codes explains one phase of the problem. An investigation of the question would go back to the early 1900's, when licensure of practitioners of other schools of medical thought were barred, at the state level, from being licensed as "medical doctors."
The insights of Dr. Benjamin Rush, who signed the Declaration of Independence, may encourage our quest for medical freedom.
1910 was the beginning of the (John D) Rockefecker Medicine Plague.
Infection spread rapidly by dollar$. Still waiting for a cure.
Will this never end? I used to do billing and, of course, had to use the required CPT codes. Had no idea the AMA was profiting from the codes. It's all so disgusting. I'd work for free helping RFKjr ferret out all the money grabbing institutions that take $$$ from the American people. It's just beyond the pale.
We need a more independent body to maintain the CPT code. It also goes beyond "monopoly" - there are some diagnoses that are not recognized in the listing.
The 'Medical Board' is a black box along with these too - what goes in and what comes out, they ain't no tellin'!
Course that's the basic unspoken rule: Don't tell, look the other way, capitulate in all these tiny ways so that when we really go whole-hog killing people, it'll be too late for you to have any integrity!
Yes!
Were CPT codes ever weaponised against chiropractors?
I remember for years the AMA treated them like lepers,
yet everyone I knew who had one spoke as if
they were worth their weight in gold!