My Dr. Charges Me $150 a Yr. for Records
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What benefit do you get out of this electronic system? I would change drs.
In my area the drs are changing to Concierge Service. You have to pay them $1500 a year dues besides your copays or premiums for a supp. I doubt if they take MAs.
I doubt if insurance will pay since it isn't an illness or accident.
In my area the drs are changing to Concierge Service. You have to pay them $1500 a year dues besides your copays or premiums for a supp. I doubt if they take MAs.
I doubt if insurance will pay since it isn't an illness or accident.
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Fire your doctor after you sent them a gas bill stating what it cost for you to get to their office.
I received a letter from my Doctors Office stating that I must pay $150 per Year for the Electronic Medical Records System if I want to continue going to their office.
Anyone else get a letter like this?
Will Health Insurance offer coverage for this?
There will be people dumb enough to pay it. I would just find another doctor.
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If the doctor's your client - send him a notice that he needs to remit $800 per year since you just got a quote engine.
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After contacting the Doctors office they are trying to justify the $150 a year charge for my immediate access to records for referrals to specialists that may need records, insurance companies that may request records concerning my claims or for underwriting purposes.
Not that I am on Medicare but they also informed me that they are no longer accepting Medicare and all patients will have to pay their normal fees. They are still participating with my PPO network but have terminated several other PPO networks they were accepting. I guess my PPO network must pay higher then others do.
My insurance company refuses to pay the $150 stating it is an administrative cost and not for medical services.
Not that I am on Medicare but they also informed me that they are no longer accepting Medicare and all patients will have to pay their normal fees. They are still participating with my PPO network but have terminated several other PPO networks they were accepting. I guess my PPO network must pay higher then others do.
My insurance company refuses to pay the $150 stating it is an administrative cost and not for medical services.
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Sounds like time to FIRE your doctor
I am sensing this is going on all around us and is the wave of the future.
Humana is offering an enhanced PPO here in KC that has these electronic records as a part of the plan. It is at a select number of Medical Groups and 'concierge' services and instant access to medical records is part of the package. I doubt many folks signed up for it.
One of the conditions of the plan is that the select providers have a system in place to provide the electronic records. I see a larger 'conspiracy/marketing plan' developing out of this and they are getting the consumer to pay for the software upgrades.
I am not a fan of insurance companies, but the Drs & Hospitals are as big a part of the problem as the insurance companies. Drs will not diagnose or medicate you without first running you through a battery of tests and sending you to their network of specialists so that everyone has a billing opportunity on your insurance plan. The costs are being increased astronomically for conditions that used to be treated by a simple office call at your primary physician. Primary physicians are now referral services to all the specialists. Everyone has their fingers in the pie, and it is standard protocol to milk the system using the billing codes to rack up every conceivable and approved procedure in the manual. If they code it right, the insurance company pays.
The system is out of control and may not be fixable. Corporate medicine figured out how to triple bill within the parameters set by the government and the insurance companies. They have built and expanded to the point they are addicted to the revenue they generate for diseases that used to be a simple one stop office call.
Humana is offering an enhanced PPO here in KC that has these electronic records as a part of the plan. It is at a select number of Medical Groups and 'concierge' services and instant access to medical records is part of the package. I doubt many folks signed up for it.
One of the conditions of the plan is that the select providers have a system in place to provide the electronic records. I see a larger 'conspiracy/marketing plan' developing out of this and they are getting the consumer to pay for the software upgrades.
I am not a fan of insurance companies, but the Drs & Hospitals are as big a part of the problem as the insurance companies. Drs will not diagnose or medicate you without first running you through a battery of tests and sending you to their network of specialists so that everyone has a billing opportunity on your insurance plan. The costs are being increased astronomically for conditions that used to be treated by a simple office call at your primary physician. Primary physicians are now referral services to all the specialists. Everyone has their fingers in the pie, and it is standard protocol to milk the system using the billing codes to rack up every conceivable and approved procedure in the manual. If they code it right, the insurance company pays.
The system is out of control and may not be fixable. Corporate medicine figured out how to triple bill within the parameters set by the government and the insurance companies. They have built and expanded to the point they are addicted to the revenue they generate for diseases that used to be a simple one stop office call.
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