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Re: Deductibles From: Richard Chudacoff, MD (rchudacoff@mylinuxisp.com) Fri Jul 16 08:27:52 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Op Ed Piece in Legal Times" Previous message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: OB: Apgar Revisited" In reply to: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Deductibles" Next in thread: Braun, R. Daniel: "Re: Op Ed Piece in Legal Times" I think the hospitals are on to that. We've delayed our billing up to four weeks and still have gotten burned. Nope, cash in the hand is better than it sitting in the insurance companies account -- Richard Chudacoff, MD Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Benjamin Franklin Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman] -Desiderius Erasmus -----Original Message----- From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Joanne Bulley, MD Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 5:12 PM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: Deductibles At Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote: > >Patient today complained to me about having to pay her deductible before >surgery. She is in real estate. I asked her how she would like to sell a >house, get $20 from the buyer, then after all the paper work is done and the >buyer moves into the house the seller then tells her she has to collect her >3% from the buyer. Then the buyer tells her no way, and she cannot do >anything to get her money. She said that would be horrible. I told her >welcome to my world. > >-- >Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG > Well -- the hospital bill usually takes care of the deductible (unless she has a $5000 deductible) So -- you let the hospital get it's bill out first -- then submit yours - and you get paid and the hospital has to collect the deductible. Some friends of mine who are urologists routinely do that if they know the patient has a significant deductible. But I do like your analogy. Joanne -- Joanne Bulley, MD Keene, NH, USA Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Op Ed Piece in Legal Times" Previous message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: OB: Apgar Revisited" In reply to: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Deductibles" Next in thread: Braun, R. Daniel: "Re: Op Ed Piece in Legal Times"

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