Comments on: Acute visits pay better http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/acute-visits-pay-better.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:19:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/acute-visits-pay-better.html/comment-page-1#comment-84272 Anonymous Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/acute-visits-pay-better.html#comment-84272 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.<br/><br/>Comrade Underpaid 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.

Comrade Underpaid

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/acute-visits-pay-better.html/comment-page-1#comment-84271 Anonymous Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:50:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/acute-visits-pay-better.html#comment-84271 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. <br/><br/>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. 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.

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