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From: "Dunn Matthew Dr. (RJC)
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: Corrected tariff for the 2006/07 Payment by Results
> Also, I don't know whether any procedures get funded separately e.g. if a
> patient comes in with a cut finger and I do a digital nerve repair, is
> this
> just a minor.
> I don't know what "ultrasound" means- if I do the repair under an
> ultrasound
> guided nerve block, does this change it to high cost? Also, if I get a
> Colles' fracture in, that's high cost because I tend to x-ray (with
> apologies to those wanting to point out that Colles described the
> clinical,
> not radiological appearance), but if I manipulate it, do we get extra? If
> an
> arthropod manips it in A and E, do we get extra? Presumably if an orthopod
> manips it in theatre we get extra. What if I manip it in theatre?
Would that be the crustacean arthropod or the arachnid version? And while
speaking of beasts, you are indeed a strange one Matt, doing digital nerve
repairs and manips in theatre etc. I don't think they will be able to
classify you!
AF
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