Doctors like getting paid less

Countless encounters with doctors and hospitals found that unless you are in a network doctors and hospitals do not want you. In fact, if you have very good insurance with out networks, the doctor and hospitals do not want you even when paid twice as much as they normally get. A doctor usually gets $50.00 for an office call. I have found that doctors time after time reject the payment of $150.00 from my insurance. I am now in a network and the doctor gets only $50.00 rather then the $150.00 they got last year. Funny thing, doctors like the $50.00 better and no longer balance bill me. They were not at all happy getting more as proven many times now.

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[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.