http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/support-balance-billing-how-doctors.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/support-balance-billing-how-doctors.html#comment-87636 Deron Schriver Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:32:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/support-balance-billing-how-doctors-lose-money-finding-rural-doctors-online-medicine-thriving.html#comment-87636 Both providers/hospitals and insurance companies need to give a little on the issue of balance billing. Providers and hospitals need to stop setting their fees at 3 to 4 times Medicare rates, because that is flat out gouging the out of newtork patients. Insurance companies need to set more reasonable UCR rates, which are typically set at artificially low levels. If those two things happen, balance billing is no longer an issue. As with any reform, you have to treat the underlying problem and not the symptoms. Both providers/hospitals and insurance companies need to give a little on the issue of balance billing. Providers and hospitals need to stop setting their fees at 3 to 4 times Medicare rates, because that is flat out gouging the out of newtork patients. Insurance companies need to set more reasonable UCR rates, which are typically set at artificially low levels. If those two things happen, balance billing is no longer an issue. As with any reform, you have to treat the underlying problem and not the symptoms.

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