To: Dick Bachert
RE:Nearly every doctor we visited during OUR trip through the cracks passed on about a 30% FEE REDUCTION)))
Your doc may or may not be aware, but this will get him into very hot water...
29 posted on
05/20/2002 9:09:05 AM PDT by
Mamzelle
To: Mamzelle
How so? (I knew we lived in a socialist state, but I never would have thought it was THAT socialist).
To: Mamzelle;Landru
Your doc may or may not be aware, but this will get him into very hot water... How so? I know that a doc accepting assignment from Medicare has to be very careful about fee schedules to recipients. However, I am not aware that there is anything that prohibits a doctor from negotiating a fee with a self-insured patient--just the same as he negotiates with the various insurance plans with which he participates.
32 posted on
05/20/2002 10:16:31 AM PDT by
scholar
To: Mamzelle
Then it's waaayyyyy past time to scrap such a system.
Is this a great country or what?
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