Posted by Greg on March 29, 2000, at 16:21:21
In reply to Should I get mad at this doctor?, posted by randy on March 29, 2000, at 13:04:33
> Went to see a regular M.D. to adjust medications.
> I am bipolar with some a.d.d and pstd thrown in.
> My last pdoc has moved to a new town and I am very picky about pdocs. I was having trouble sleeping so I went to the M.D.s office. I saw an physicians assistant. He gave me ascript for Ambien and changed my
> wellbutrin to the SR formula. I told him what I thought\I needed (thanks to the experience of all of you and parting comments from old pdoc.)and he agreed and I was on my way home.
> My bill came yesterday and they charged me for a mental health visit. The bill was for 68.00 after bc\bs
> adjustments. Bc/bs paid nothing but applied the 68.00 to my annual deduction. In my opinion that visit should be charged as a normal patient visit that costs me 12.00 co-pay and bc/bs pays about 25.00.
> Am I offbase or is this normal practice?
> they did no tests, i did not see a doctor, I could have seen a pdoc for a half hour and paid the same amount of money. If I was diabetic and saw a regular m.d. would he charge me as an internist? if a regular doc casts a broken arm is he allowed to charge as an orthopedic? Advise please before I go poastal (over the phone, no threat of physical harm implied) on the billing clerks.Randy,
My wife works for a medical billing company and says that Drs have very little to do with how a patient is billed, the billing dept makes that call dependant on info that they get out of a book. She says usually if you question an unreasonable bill you can get it reduced. Its worth a try, Good Luck!
Greg
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