Dear Mrs. Thomas, Mr. Webster, and Ms. March:
We just received your denial of my application to be a Davis Vision laser vision correction provider in NYC.
We believe that you may have mis-evaluated our application, and I have been unable to communicate to the correct people about this.
There are many valid reasons why adding me and my center to your list of laser vision correction surgeons will be beneficial to your members:
1. All the other laser vision providers on your website in New York City are doing some form of a cutting procedure, either LASIK or IntraLase. As you may know, both of these cutting procedures involve cutting a flap into the cornea, which is by far the most dangerous and complication-ridden step. In contrast, we only perform the more advanced, safer LASEK and epi-LASEK procedures, which are totally non-cutting. Published studies have shown that 90% of the complications in LASIK involve the flap in some way. Therefore, by not cutting a flap, we are eliminating fully 90% of all possible complications. Consumers are becoming increasingly well-informed, and they want a safer procedure. Your denying our application is effectively denying your members at least the option of choosing a safer, totally non-cutting form of surgery. Such denial of choice is not what you wish to do for your members, I trust.
2. We are located in Manhattan, not in Kansas. Having 5 different doctors to choose from in a town as small as Cleveland may be sufficient, but on a population basis, your members in New York City are actually underserved. Consumers in New York City, I am sure you will agree with, are some of the most discriminating in the world, and appreciate choice. Again, limiting their choice, and forcing the over 1 million NYC residents who live below 34th St. to travel all the way uptown to see one of the laser vision correction surgeons on your panel is not providing them with optimal convenience or care.
3. Many, if not most, of the laser vision correction surgeons on your panel in NYC are actually surgeons who perform a low volume of surgery, so cannot afford to own their own laser, and so use an “open access” facility. By credentialing me, and adding me to your panel, you are not only adding me, but my center. To your members, this means they will gain emergency 24 hour access, including on weekends, by myself and the 5 other MDs who work for me (fellows in refractive surgery). This means that your patients will have not only greater convenience when scheduling (as most of the MDs on your panel in NYC are not available on evenings or weekends) as well as better medical care (because they would not have to wait days to be seen in an emergency).
4. This is actually not a new application, but a reapplication, as I was operating on and serving your patients as early as 1998 when I was working at TLC Manhattan, which is part of your network. We have many distinguishing features compared to TLC, which might lead you to want to add us to your laser vision surgery network, including offering the more advanced, non-cutting procedures (TLC does not), and having all patients seen pre- and post-operatively by MDs (not techs).
Thank you in advance for your consideration, and for responding to this letter.
Yours,
Emil William Chynn, MD FACS MBA
Dartmouth/Columbia/Harvard/Emory/NYU-trained
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