After the obligatory denial of payment, co-pay and deductible, this is what Blue Cross paid me for an office visit. Do you think it is evil that I held this check 3 months then wrote a terse letter to Blue Cross demanding this payment and threatening interest if they did not pay immediately? Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
You're a business man. Every penny you work for is yours, you deserve that penny and have every right to fight for it.
The irony is that it probably cost them $40 to process, prepare and send the check. No wonder rates are so high! Stupidity reigns supreme.
WHy is it that doctors always complain about how little insurance companies pay them, and lawyers always complain about how they can't make money because of doctors ever increasing fees? If you look around F chat, a significant number of the members are doctors/lawyers, which leads me to believe, they are not really hurting for a decent living, relatively speaking. I guess, to beeyotch about everything, even when you are rich, is the American way. I must have missed the beeeyotching class in school. To answer your question: All doctors are evil. Most seem to go into the profession to help humanity, and then complain all day about how they don't get paid for this, and that. Makes it seem like they went into the field for the $$ instead of actualy helping people. Oh the horror of truth!
"I didn't go to Evil Medical School to be called Mister thank you very much..." Image Unavailable, Please Login
Wow, Sorry to hear it. Why would they send you a .01 check. If you cash it, is it an acceptance of final payment for services? I have had my eyes opened to this state of our health care system.
Actually, we've gotten a few of these. I told my insurance clerk to save one out so I could frame it. I think its pretty funny. I didn't really send a letter to BC, I made that part up.
What do you call a guy who gets the worst grades in med school and graduates dead last in his class? Doctor.
I wonder if it helps with insurance stats that they paid the claim or just a way to move it off the computer as a completed claim.
Well, where to begin. I ***** when I can't get my patients the care they need, try to prove it to insurance companies, who don't pay for it. I am liable to provide the care. So I must. And I can prove why something is needed, and am cost conscious to a fault. Still, we get denied for services the company approved, and either won't pay(after service is provided) or if they do pay, they want money back. And I cannot deduct bad/uncollectable debt. At least I'm on call a lot, at mercy of insurance companies, and get to be called evil on chat boards. No wonder you like Fiedler so much J/K I care for the children of a very powerful malpractice atty here. No one else would. Not fair to the kids. You may want to revise your estimation of the profession, or never get sick. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Ryan I'm going to bust your chops here! Doctors are getting screwed, glued and tatooed! Most doctors I know have to work at least twice the hours to make what they made 7-10 years ago because of what the PPO's, HMO's, etc. and their boards of directors are pulling down ($). Most of them tell me that if they knew then what they know now, they would not have gotten into the field. How would you like to be in a professional field where huge companies tell you what you will be paid? I feel for doctors and the hell they go through. Yes, many are very wealthy, and they earned it. That fact does not give way to how they are being treated.
But remember that he can't actually be called an "expert" unless he is from out of town and carries a briefcase. Definition of expert: ex-spurt: a "has been" drip under pressure.
Wait, your last name is Urol? OMG that's hilarious! I bet you got razzed to no end in med school, eh?
