The thing about the whole medical liability situation is that none of the players are safe from blame. Not the insurance companies, the trial lawyers, the patients or the doctors. Case in point: some Indiana docs are using rising malpractice premiums and a consequent tightening of profit margins as an excuse to do some fishy outsourcing. A physician sends a test to an off-site lab and is charged a discounted rate. The doctor then bills the insurance company a higher price and pockets the difference. Prescribe some extra tests and guess who ends up paying? Read [Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette]
Show me any business in the US other than medical care where reimbursement is limited to the actual cost of goods paid by the provider. Show me another business where one can purchase services for a price that already been set by a third party. The scenario presented where a profit is made on the lab test is not horrific. It, in fact, is reimbursement for that physician's time and expertise in reviewing the results and may well represent the difference in a charge between two office visits, one having had lab tests and the other none. Both charges for the visit would otherewise be the same. Killing the profit from lab causes the price of both visits to increase and one patient gets less for the money than the other. But don't ask me - it's only my business.
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It's impossible to sort out what one is being billed for, when the invoice from the billing firm lists just 'patient encounter' during an office visit. In addition, the billing company still lists the old military 'champus' instead of the new (hey, it's a decade old) Tricare...
I refuse to pay until the service is clearly declined and I know what I am paying for.
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