At the risk of being redundant.......................

EVERYONE SHOULD CHARGE FOR PERFORMING SERVICES IN A HOSPITAL, EITHER FOR
INPATIENT OR OUTPATIENT.  In our hospital, dietetic services are offered FREE
to inpatients, but AT CHARGE for outpatients.  If a diet instruction is
ordered for an inpatient and the dietitian does not get a  chance to do it
before the patient is discharged, then we have to do it GRATIS as outpatient.


Sigh..... go figure!!

The reason is that unless you charge, you do not exist.  You might just as
well be wallpaper.  Even if a charge is denied by an insurance company, your
charge will become a record on a computer data base somewhere.  If you never
charge, you will never be entered into the computer.  If you are never
entered into a computer, you don't exist.  PERIOD.  The first step to being
reimbursed is to be denied payment!

Martha Brower RD LD IBCLC (thought for the day.....  When  Formula with Eyes
hits the market, they can use "I only have eyes for You" as the theme song!
 Or how about "three blind fish"?? Maybe Charlie the Tuna will be on the
formula cans rocking the little fish and reading "Moby Dick" to the little
fry.