Doctors like getting paid less

[trishey32]

My employer has now canceled my indemnity policy and put me under a PPO. Now my doctor gets paid under a network agreement and rather then get $160 for an office call, he now gets $50.00 for an office call. I no longer have to argue with the staff any longer. If it were me and I were a doctor, I would have loved to keep the Indemnity patient at the rate they paid. Employer wanted to reduce the static employees faced each time they saw a doctor so now we have the network agreement.

[desirim]

You should talked to his office manager. Doctors are into treating patients, not negotiations. By directly contacting him would mean that you are putting a price on his service( which is what you agreed upon initially) Negotiations like this should be made beforehand and not after the service has been given.

[sbrownn7]

outstanding video. i am in the same boat as my wife has terminal cancer. over 350,000 has been paid to the doctors, hospitals, ect. over the last 2 years. yet, even with, having united healthcare, if you do not pay all the so called extras, these healthcare people will ruin your credit if you fail to pay. i recommend everyone to devest all stock and mutual funds in the healthcare industry. this is the only way to kill off greedy healthcare system that we have today.