How long do you wait at the doctors office?
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Originally Posted by wickerbill,Aug 1 2006, 12:46 PM
The "A" excuse doesn't hold much water with me. Yes, some specialists spend more time, but they can also budget for that, especially with new patients by not scheduling so many patients. It's basically an attitude that the patient's time isn't valuable.
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From: Sun★Works
I have, in the past, asked the Dr's office to prorate my time if they have a policy of charging me for a missed visit. if thier time is important then so is mine.
I take time off of work and drive considerable distances sometimes to meet with my PCP and other specialists.
If I wait longer than 15 minutes to get passed the proverbial first door and then another 20- 40 minutes for face time with the doc then I feel I shuld be compensated for my time.
It is not my problem other patients took more time then alloted. If that office is going to charge me for a missed visit, then game on.
PS not all practices have this policy but it does exists in many.
I take time off of work and drive considerable distances sometimes to meet with my PCP and other specialists.
If I wait longer than 15 minutes to get passed the proverbial first door and then another 20- 40 minutes for face time with the doc then I feel I shuld be compensated for my time.
It is not my problem other patients took more time then alloted. If that office is going to charge me for a missed visit, then game on.
PS not all practices have this policy but it does exists in many.
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From: limerick
I would enjoy a doctor trying to get money from me out of a missed or late visit.
I was 10 minutes late for a dentist appointment once, he's all of 2 minutes from my house but it snow the day before and traffic was backed up, it took me 20 minutes to drive what I could have walked in 3-4 minutes. I get there and they tell me I missed my appointment when normally I sit for 15 minutes waiting for my appointment. I never went back to them.
Doctors are getting screwed by the health care companies. People w/o health insurance are getting screwed by the doctors.
If I only had to pay what the doctor actuall gets paid by the PPO I have then no one would need everyday health care insurance, only catastrophic or $2000 deductable insurance. My doc gets like $40 with my copay and the med ins for a normal visit. That's why he takes all of 5-10 minutes a visit. However he chrages like $85 if you don't have ins. That' a bunch of crap. He should just charge $50 to everyone, whatever your ins company doesn't cover you should have to make up. here's my $18.50 instead of a $10.
My MRI was priced at $850 or something around there but the ins co paid <$300 WTF? how do these people stay in business I have no idea Charge $400 to everyone and make me pay $100. There should be a board of docts that make standard pricing for everything they can think of and they should tell the ins companies to go to hell. A short visit is $50, pay cover whatever you want your clients will have to cover the remainder.
I was 10 minutes late for a dentist appointment once, he's all of 2 minutes from my house but it snow the day before and traffic was backed up, it took me 20 minutes to drive what I could have walked in 3-4 minutes. I get there and they tell me I missed my appointment when normally I sit for 15 minutes waiting for my appointment. I never went back to them.
Doctors are getting screwed by the health care companies. People w/o health insurance are getting screwed by the doctors.
If I only had to pay what the doctor actuall gets paid by the PPO I have then no one would need everyday health care insurance, only catastrophic or $2000 deductable insurance. My doc gets like $40 with my copay and the med ins for a normal visit. That's why he takes all of 5-10 minutes a visit. However he chrages like $85 if you don't have ins. That' a bunch of crap. He should just charge $50 to everyone, whatever your ins company doesn't cover you should have to make up. here's my $18.50 instead of a $10.
My MRI was priced at $850 or something around there but the ins co paid <$300 WTF? how do these people stay in business I have no idea Charge $400 to everyone and make me pay $100. There should be a board of docts that make standard pricing for everything they can think of and they should tell the ins companies to go to hell. A short visit is $50, pay cover whatever you want your clients will have to cover the remainder.
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Originally Posted by exceltoexcel,Aug 1 2006, 08:10 PM
I would enjoy a doctor trying to get money from me out of a missed or late visit.
I was 10 minutes late for a dentist appointment once, he's all of 2 minutes from my house but it snow the day before and traffic was backed up, it took me 20 minutes to drive what I could have walked in 3-4 minutes. I get there and they tell me I missed my appointment when normally I sit for 15 minutes waiting for my appointment. I never went back to them.
Doctors are getting screwed by the health care companies. People w/o health insurance are getting screwed by the doctors.
If I only had to pay what the doctor actuall gets paid by the PPO I have then no one would need everyday health care insurance, only catastrophic or $2000 deductable insurance. My doc gets like $40 with my copay and the med ins for a normal visit. That's why he takes all of 5-10 minutes a visit. However he chrages like $85 if you don't have ins. That' a bunch of crap. He should just charge $50 to everyone, whatever your ins company doesn't cover you should have to make up. here's my $18.50 instead of a $10.
My MRI was priced at $850 or something around there but the ins co paid <$300 WTF? how do these people stay in business I have no idea Charge $400 to everyone and make me pay $100. There should be a board of docts that make standard pricing for everything they can think of and they should tell the ins companies to go to hell. A short visit is $50, pay cover whatever you want your clients will have to cover the remainder.
I was 10 minutes late for a dentist appointment once, he's all of 2 minutes from my house but it snow the day before and traffic was backed up, it took me 20 minutes to drive what I could have walked in 3-4 minutes. I get there and they tell me I missed my appointment when normally I sit for 15 minutes waiting for my appointment. I never went back to them.
Doctors are getting screwed by the health care companies. People w/o health insurance are getting screwed by the doctors.
If I only had to pay what the doctor actuall gets paid by the PPO I have then no one would need everyday health care insurance, only catastrophic or $2000 deductable insurance. My doc gets like $40 with my copay and the med ins for a normal visit. That's why he takes all of 5-10 minutes a visit. However he chrages like $85 if you don't have ins. That' a bunch of crap. He should just charge $50 to everyone, whatever your ins company doesn't cover you should have to make up. here's my $18.50 instead of a $10.
My MRI was priced at $850 or something around there but the ins co paid <$300 WTF? how do these people stay in business I have no idea Charge $400 to everyone and make me pay $100. There should be a board of docts that make standard pricing for everything they can think of and they should tell the ins companies to go to hell. A short visit is $50, pay cover whatever you want your clients will have to cover the remainder.
Doctors charge prices differently to health insurance than they would to a person without insurance. I went to PT a while back, looked at the charges that they were billing to insurance... a bag of ice... $20? All the nitpicking and itemized shit here and there.... BS
Doctors getting screwed? how about doctors learning to play the game too.. and they do. If they know you have good insurance, they go ahead and bill all kinda things against it. most people don't care because all they pay is co-pay/deductable, or it comes out of FSA. Doesn't make it right.
Health care is F'd up. The only money in it is to work for the insurance companies, or the infrastructure that supports the BS going on. Yes.. doctors get their cuts, but the classes that aren't required are those related to running a business effectively so that you don't have to rely on the insurnace and shit to do the periphery things of being a doctor.
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