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Posted by AndrewB on March 4, 2001, at 17:45:06
Dr Bob,
I am a firm believer that the Psychobabble site is of a great value to many people. However I understand that there are real concenrs about ongoing funding for such a site. Another concern of mine, and possible of yours, is the site acting as an indirect medium by which people can procure medicines from overseas without being under the supervision of an appropriately experienced psychiatrist.
With this in mind, would you be interested in being linked to a site that offered consultation (and prescriptions where legally allowed) by overseas psychiatrists. The consultations would be via phone or e-mail. The billing for the consultations would be through the site. A portion of the consultation fee would go to fund your site.
I have an associate with the expertise to set up such a site. If you are interested I would appreciate contacts of foreign psychiatrists who may be interested in participating in this arrangement.
AndrewB
andrewb@seanet.com
Posted by ShelliR on March 7, 2001, at 12:54:51
In reply to Dr. Bob: a revenue proposal for the site, posted by AndrewB on March 4, 2001, at 17:45:06
> Dr Bob,
>
I spoke to some people at NIMH and they do have research grants available. The research has to be more than statistical (e.g. control group, etc.). I was wondering about your grad students and post grad students who might want to apply for a grant, using some of the money to help support the site and the rest to do the research. Could possibly be a disseration, maybe comparing two different types of self help boards for depression and/or bipolar. Anyway, just an idea. shelli
Posted by Dr. Bob on March 8, 2001, at 1:36:44
In reply to Dr. Bob: a revenue proposal for the site, posted by AndrewB on March 4, 2001, at 17:45:06
> would you be interested in being linked to a site that offered consultation (and prescriptions where legally allowed) by overseas psychiatrists. The consultations would be via phone or e-mail. The billing for the consultations would be through the site. A portion of the consultation fee would go to fund your site.
Huh, I could've sworn I responded to this already, I wonder what happened?
Anyway, thanks for the idea, but the above arrangement would be considered "fee-splitting", which is a no-no, at least here...
> I spoke to some people at NIMH and they do have research grants available... I was wondering about your grad students and post grad students who might want to apply for a grant...Thanks for that idea, too, but there's a ton of competition for NIMH grants, and I don't actually have any students. :-(
Bob
Posted by AndrewB on March 8, 2001, at 6:35:39
In reply to Re: a revenue proposal for the site, posted by Dr. Bob on March 8, 2001, at 1:36:44
Thank you for your response. I was not aware that someone suggested it to you before.
One question: what do you exactly mean when you say fee splitting is a no-no here? The site would charge a fee for a consultation and the associated services of the site (ie. site maintenance, content creation and updating, billing overhead, etc.). So part of the fee would go for the site's upkeep and part for the doctor's fees. It is out of this site upkeep revenue that the money would be directed towards yours site.
AndrewB
Posted by ksvt on March 8, 2001, at 8:58:25
In reply to Re: Dr. Bob, posted by AndrewB on March 8, 2001, at 6:35:39
>Andrew - I don't claim to know much about this but Dr Bob might be faulted for collecting funds for a service he did not provide, and he might also get in trouble for collecting what is essentially a referral fee. That's verboten in some professions or at least there may be some very strict and limiting regulations about it. Fee splitting usually arises when a regulated professional splits his fee with someone who is not in that same profession. As long as Dr. Bob is collecting the full fee, and paying a portion over to someone else, that might be viewed as fee splitting particularly if what he is retaining is calculated on a percentage and not a fixed fee basis. Here, he is making referrals presumably to other docs, but if any of them are foreign doctors and not licensed in the US, they might not be acknowledged as fellow professionals. This is just how I might analyze this and is very seat-of-the-pants. As I said before, I make no claim to knowing what I'm talking about. K
Posted by Dr. Bob on March 8, 2001, at 20:35:53
In reply to Re: Dr. Bob, posted by AndrewB on March 8, 2001, at 6:35:39
> Thank you for your response. I was not aware that someone suggested it to you before.
No one did, what I meant was I'd intended to respond to *your post* before. :-)
> One question: what do you exactly mean when you say fee splitting is a no-no here?
See ksvt's post. You can also find a lot of information about this (like everything else!) online. The AMA version of the basic principle is at:
http://www.ama-assn.org/apps/pf_online/pf_online?f_n=browse&doc=policyfiles/CEJA/E-6.02.HTM
Bob
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