This is common (and necessary) in small community hospitals and critical access hospitals. The alternative to this is that every patient sick enough to be in a critical access hospital ICU bed (typically a patient who would be in an intermediate or progressive bed in a larger tertiary care facility) gets sent by ambulance to the larger city….which would create myriad problems…need more hospital rooms/beds/nurses/doctors/staff at the larger facilities; need more ambulances and paramedics in these smaller communities to transfer the patients; etc
Next we'll have police and firefighters working from home too.
This is common (and necessary) in small community hospitals and critical access hospitals. The alternative to this is that every patient sick enough to be in a critical access hospital ICU bed (typically a patient who would be in an intermediate or progressive bed in a larger tertiary care facility) gets sent by ambulance to the larger city….which would create myriad problems…need more hospital rooms/beds/nurses/doctors/staff at the larger facilities; need more ambulances and paramedics in these smaller communities to transfer the patients; etc
Why should a doctor miss out on a fee just because he's not in the hospital where the patient is?