Comments on: How delays in payments increase medical costs http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/05/how-delays-in-payments-increase.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Marketplace.MDhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/05/how-delays-in-payments-increase.html#comment-63458 Marketplace.MD Fri, 26 May 2006 15:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/05/how-delays-in-payments-increase-medical-costs.html#comment-63458 You cannot deny a cash payment or a debit from a Health Savings Account, Kevin.<br/><br/>See the SimpleCare movement (www.simplecare.com) for more about cash only docs and see Marketplace.MD Update (http://blog.marketplace.md) for the latest news on HSAs. <br/><br/>Also keep an eye out for this weeks submisison to Grand Rounds from "The Marketplace MD", which will arguing why HSAs and Consumer-Driven Health Care are good for practicing physicians because they are spurring the move to real-time payment and adjudication at time of service. <br/><br/>To translate, with cash-like HSA payments you don't get denied and you do get paid right away. You cannot deny a cash payment or a debit from a Health Savings Account, Kevin.

See the SimpleCare movement (www.simplecare.com) for more about cash only docs and see Marketplace.MD Update (http://blog.marketplace.md) for the latest news on HSAs.

Also keep an eye out for this weeks submisison to Grand Rounds from “The Marketplace MD”, which will arguing why HSAs and Consumer-Driven Health Care are good for practicing physicians because they are spurring the move to real-time payment and adjudication at time of service.

To translate, with cash-like HSA payments you don’t get denied and you do get paid right away.

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