dave48 · HackerTrans

Again, no doctor turns away a patient who has insurance that he takes. Insurance contracts are signed by doctors years in advance. Insurance companies learned long ago that they can get away with being obnoxious as long as they're not so obnoxious that doctors would drop them. They walk that line rather well.

dave48

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The insurance companies pay long after we see the patient and most of them play about the same games. So, either we don't take any insurance (which would drastically reduce most of our incomes) or we just learn to play their games.

For the record, my wife has gotten pretty good with the billing so I usually get paid for what I do. At first it was very painful because dealing with insurance companies has a steep learning curve in the beginning, but it's not so bad now.

It's still highly inefficient billing each insurance company for each separate patient I see just to collect the amount most people pay to fill the gas tank of their car but, that's hardly the worst problem with health care in this Country.

dave48

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You should read my epilogue on why hospitals are going bankrupt: http://truecostofhealthcare.org/epilogue Or watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LieVr0QvkME No one is admitted to the hospital these days who doesn't qualify by a rather strict set of criteria. If you qualify and have nothing then, in most States, Medicaid picks up the tab. If you have anything, the hospital gets it.Hospitals give free care the way Heidi Fleiss gave free love.

dave48

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Price transparency is good but, what's also missing in health care is value transparency. In other words, not only do most people (including most physicians) not know how much anything in health care really costs, they don't know how much anything should cost! The level of blindness in this business is truly unprecedented. What's also needed are a number of consumer protection laws that we take for granted in pretty much every other industry. Those alone would go a long way toward correcting many of the problems we have in health care.

dave48

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