I don’t know of one doctor or hospital that is not writing off balances of what the insurance companies are not paying. On top of that it is one administrative nightmare, medical assistants can’t get the time in the consultation rooms with the doctors as they are tied up on administrative functions...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, health insurance, Claims, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Balance Billing, Patients, Sicko
I think we saw this same story in Sicko, almost the exact same story so must be more of this going around with irregular periods now being a basis for denying insurance coverage. Another woman was turned down due to "history of infertility" as she had taken a fertility drug. How...
FDA approved - investigational? Why do we have issues with insurance companies? Where does the money get spent, California is trying to change this to where 85% of premium money goes towards healthcare. It does make you wonder sometimes when you see so many projects funded by insurance...
Boy if this is not the truth....the CPT Codes are updated, changed, added to, etc. on a regular basis...and then before you get to the CPT process, you first need the ICD-9 Diagnosis code...and the 2 better match up as well when it comes to getting your medical claim paid...and that's why there are...