Making preventive medicine harder to bill for and paying less for it is not the way to go.
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The biggest problem for us is mentioned in the article, it’s very difficult to get fully paid when a visit includes both acute and preventive. Some of our patients also get pissed off at us for the double copay their insurance company requires in these cases.
Many feel they should get every ache and pain they’ve had in the past year evaluated at their annual “physical” for no extra charge.
I could not agree more. It is a rare patient who comes in for a physical without a “laundry list”. The fact that insurance companies either won’t pay for both or charge a second copay is a classic example of triangulation, whereby the patient is pitted against the doctor but the insurance company is actually the problem.
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