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Re: Public Aid From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Sat Sep 13 14:11:16 2003 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: Public Aid" Previous message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: Public Aid" In reply to: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Public Aid" $947.20 for vag del only. $72.85 per visit for prenatal care and postpartum checkup. We are a federally-and state-qualified rural health center, thus the reasonable reimbursement for office visits. They pay that for any outpt. visit, no matter what level of service. If a pt. starts prenatal care at 8 wks and keeps all appts, we do MUCH better than any insurer's global fee. The amount for the vag. del. is the same for all docs, whether rural or not. -- Anna Meenan, MD At Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Efrain Ramirez wrote: > >How much do they actually pay...? Prenatal care and vaginal deliver? > >>At Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Anna Meenan, MD wrote: >> >>Got a new fee schedule from Cigna the other day. I usually don't pay a >>whole lot of attention to those things because I'm on salary from the U, >>but I noticed an entry for Vag. delivery and it seemed low. I checked >>with our coder/biller and asked her about reimbursement from various >>sources. Turns out, Cigna pays me $31.52 LESS than Illinois Public Aid >>does for a vaginal delivery (59409). I did a little more investigating >>and found that the local hospital's PPO plan pays $4.12 LESS, One Health >>pays $67 LESS, and HMO Illinois pays a whopping $187.59 LESS than >>Illinois Public Aid does for a veginal delivery only. In fact, my coder >>and I searched for an insurance company that pays us MORE than IPA does >>and were unable to. Are we suckers or what? >> >>-- >> Anna Meenan, MD (out recruiting more public aid pts) >> >-- >"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. >But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." > >Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962) > Next message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: Public Aid" Previous message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: Public Aid" In reply to: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Public Aid"

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