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Re: Rubber checks From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Sun Nov 14 16:45:29 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: post term pregnancy" Previous message: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Rubber checks" In reply to: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Rubber checks" Next in thread: Lynn D. Montgomery, M.D.: "Re: Rubber checks" Works like a charm in Namibia, anyway. Here in the good old US of A, docs are not ALLOWED to waive the co-pay. It's actually considered insurance fraud to make the insurance company pay their part and not make the patients pay their part. -- Anna Meenan, MD At Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > >Lynn, > >what does this have to do with Obstetrics and Gynaecology? Nothing. In >any case, you haven't figured it out, have you, I am ticked off about >the ad hominem against Steve by someone how has no clue. > >BTW, I am in private practice too, by the way, and we have a co-payment >here in Namibia. I solve the problem by not asking anz co-payment. Works >like a charm. > >el > >In message <auto-000005910495@montanadsl.net>, &quot;Lynn D. Montgomery, M.D.&quot; write >s: > >> Since my practice wrote off at least $80,000 in bad debt last year, I >> consider it much more than drivel. I know several physicians who >> insisted upon only practicing medicine and refusing to consider the >> business side of practice. A lot of them are no longer practicing - >> one was a carry out boy at a grocery store the last I heard. In the >> United States at least, one can no longer practice medicine without >> practicing business. >> >> Patients paying for their balance of the bill, weeks following their >> visit, with bad checks is a big problem in out practice. That is why >> I asked how many were figuring what the patient responsibility will be >> prior to service and requiring payment (cash or credit card) prior to >> being placed in a room. We try to do this, but with 140 different >> insurance companies, it is very labor intensive to check out every fee >> prior to every visit. >> >> EL, calling the business discussions on this list drivel, would be >> like us calling discussion regarding HIV or TB in pregnancy drivel >> when you address them because we just don't see much of that here. >> Lynn Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: post term pregnancy" Previous message: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Rubber checks" In reply to: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Rubber checks" Next in thread: Lynn D. Montgomery, M.D.: "Re: Rubber checks"

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