no doctor bashing allowed. RANT allert.
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doctors who charge insanely high fees to rip off the insurance companies
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I was following your line of reasoning right up until you made this point. While it certainly sounds good, it doesn't really work out like this. You see, it makes very little difference what we charge. All that matters when dealing with insurance companies is what they will pay. And, they won't pay "insanely high fees". In fact, they usually hold the honest hard workind doc hostage for some amount lower than what the services are worth. The insurance company will then simply stop paying the doc at all if the doc won't take the contracted (low) fee. Then, since the doc will no longer be a "preferred provider" he will no longer be able to see any of that companies patients.
Thus, maybe you should consider who is doing the ripping off here because clearly it is the insurance company and very rarely the doc.
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