Timeline for What is the duty of a medical office to properly bill one's insurance? (USA)
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| Dec 25, 2022 at 19:14 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 17:29 | comment | added | user1937198 | From a purely practically and economic point of view, the most efficient form of reimbursement (revenue gained - cost to get paid) is usually to bill the insurance company directly rather than the patient, as the doctors office is usually more experienced in completing the paperwork, and leaving it to the patient has an unfortunate (from the doctors point of view) tendency to result in the bill being left unpaid for a significant amount of time whilst the patient figures out what they need to do/finds the funds. | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 7:10 | comment | added | Kevin | For more practical advice, if you are a patient whose insurance and doctors are refusing to talk to one another, I would suggest consulting this question as well. | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 6:29 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 25, 2022 at 5:16 | vote | accept | Alan | ||
| Dec 25, 2022 at 0:37 | answer | added | user6726 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 24, 2022 at 23:56 | answer | added | jwh20 | timeline score: 12 | |
| Dec 24, 2022 at 22:29 | history | asked | Alan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |