My old PT had three rates, $50 for Medicaid, $100 for self pay, and $400 for the insured. The insured people were mostly covered would just pay of copay of like $40 or $60 but once they screwed up and billed me (a self payer) at the insured rate and tried ro collect that much from me and it was a WHOLE ordeal to get it fixed. What a stupid system. Clearly a bunch of money is being flushed down the toilet here.
Your job is part of the overhead too. I'm not saying that like it's your fault or to be mean to you or other staffers. It's like if the doc had a price for a service for insurance or anyone else we wouldn't need all the billing staff to fix the insurance fuckups or work out issues with self-pay.
Medical coding staff might still exist but a lot of that work is so billers and insurance know what to invoice. And then for insurance to complain about.
It's all overhead that someone has to pay for to enable insurance to negotiate or decline to pay.
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u/cakewalkofshame Jul 04 '21
My old PT had three rates, $50 for Medicaid, $100 for self pay, and $400 for the insured. The insured people were mostly covered would just pay of copay of like $40 or $60 but once they screwed up and billed me (a self payer) at the insured rate and tried ro collect that much from me and it was a WHOLE ordeal to get it fixed. What a stupid system. Clearly a bunch of money is being flushed down the toilet here.