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9. We billed a patient's insurance company

Reply to truth2power (Reply #6)

Sat May 17, 2014, 08:44 PM

May 2014

and took the reimbursed amount but we did not contract with them. We did not have to accept the patient's insurance if we thought it's reimbursement was too low we did not contract with the ins co
Don't tell me what my job was
Sorry reality doesn't reflect your paradigm

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"New Obamacare Loophole Shows Failure of For-Profit Health System: Critics".. [View all] truth2power May 2014 OP

I don't understand why an insurance company upaloopa May 2014 #1

Yes, right now a patient pays the deductible (or nothing) and the provider and the insurer work out djean111 May 2014 #2

It sounds like you have a sense of what's really involved here... truth2power May 2014 #5

The insurance companies WROTE the ACA Doctor_J May 2014 #8

I think there's some confusion here... truth2power May 2014 #3

I was a controller of a medical clinc upaloopa May 2014 #4

It will apply to the ACA... truth2power May 2014 #6

We billed a patient's insurance company upaloopa May 2014 #9

As I said, if the reimbursement rate was too low, yu took the money anyway... truth2power May 2014 #11

Medical pricing makes absolutely no sense at all IronLionZion May 2014 #10

I really thought that the the insurance companies would play fair once Heritage Care passed Doctor_J May 2014 #7