If the government is so eager to meddle in the health care field, let them
create a consumer affairs division that can handle the pre-certs and
post-payments for the patients.


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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For many people, providers as well as patients, the way we handle
"managed care" is a disaster. My wife has two masters'-level
psychiatric
social workers at her office who spend most of their day fighting with
insurance companies

You've nailed the problem right there. When did medicine start
accepting
assignment of benefits for routine office visits? If patient's paid
when
services were rendered, and then filed with the insurance company on
their
own (dentistry calls it "direct reimbursement"), your wife's office
could
use those psychiatric social workers more efficiently.



The problem is, it takes someone with an advanced degree to work through
the maze of pre-cert and post-paym as it were.