Re: Multiplan - Pay you less quicker

[Guest guest]

I have a “Block Junk Fax”

button on my HP printer/fax/copier and these get blocked.

As well as those promising a huge increase

in size of …. Whatever.

dg

Multiplan - Pay you less quicker

Anyone get those faxes from insurances that

say....agree to this deeply discounted rate on your charges and we'll pay you

in 10-days or less!

I've been getting them from Multiplan recently.

It is kind of interesting how your mind kind of warps

around the words -- gee, if I sign this, they will pay me the money I'm owed

and I won't have to wait and wait.

But then one pops out of the fog and realizes the

insurance company is asking the doctor to pay the insurance company (via the

discount) to pay the doctor on time.

Here, kind sir, please take this $20 bill so that you

will pay me more quickly the $80 of the $100 you owe me.

Something smells in Denmark.

What do most of you do with those? Just pitch

them?

Write nasty notes on them and fax them back?

Just curious.

Locke, MD

Basalt, CO

=======================================

Eau (WI) Family Medicine Residency 1994

Job Share w/ Wife

5 Years in Air Force -- [Laughlin AFB (Del Rio, TX) // Spangdahlem

AB, Germany]

Joined Alpine Medical Group -- Private Group-

Family Practice 1999-2007

AMG went independent from hospital MSO 10/04

AMG implemented Centricity EMR April 2005

AMG dissolved 17 August 2007

Locke Family Medicine begins 18 August 2007

www.LockeFamilyMedicine.com

Implemented eClinicalWorks

EMR 9/07

[Guest guest]

Most ot these, that I get, are not insurance companies, in actuallity. They sign

up patients with the idea of negociating a discount off their bills. Seems

dishonest on the face of it, unsuspecting patients think they are actually

buying insurance.

________________________________

From: on behalf of Locke's in Colorado

Sent: Mon 1/14/2008 10:46 PM

To: Locke's in Colorado

Subject: Multiplan - Pay you less quicker

Anyone get those faxes from insurances that say....agree to this deeply

discounted rate on your charges and we'll pay you in 10-days or less!

I've been getting them from Multiplan recently.

It is kind of interesting how your mind kind of warps around the words -- gee,

if I sign this, they will pay me the money I'm owed and I won't have to wait and

wait.

But then one pops out of the fog and realizes the insurance company is asking

the doctor to pay the insurance company (via the discount) to pay the doctor on

time.

Here, kind sir, please take this $20 bill so that you will pay me more quickly

the $80 of the $100 you owe me.

Something smells in Denmark.

What do most of you do with those? Just pitch them?

Write nasty notes on them and fax them back?

Just curious.

Locke, MD

Basalt, CO

=======================================

Eau (WI) Family Medicine Residency 1994

Job Share w/ Wife

5 Years in Air Force -- [Laughlin AFB (Del Rio, TX) // Spangdahlem AB, Germany]

Joined Alpine Medical Group -- Private Group- Family Practice 1999-2007

AMG went independent from hospital MSO 10/04

AMG implemented Centricity EMR April 2005

AMG dissolved 17 August 2007

Locke Family Medicine begins 18 August 2007

www.LockeFamilyMedicine.com <http://www.lockefamilymedicine.com/>

Implemented eClinicalWorks EMR 9/07

[Guest guest]

In my opinion, be very leary of Multiplan and Magna Care and some others.

Several reasons:

-I'm sure they have multiple products, but in our experience they are usually just a third party administrator that offers to the self insured union or business a panel of participating doctors that their members / employees can see at a very discounted rate. Fee schedules will differ based on who is the real insurance provider. Reimbursement is usually at around 50% to 66% of prevailing Medicare rates.

-if there is a problem with slow payment, they will often just refer you to the union or self insured business

-they down code routinely and assume the doctor will not have the energy to appeal.

Enough said?

Mike Safran

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[Guest guest]

Dear Dr Locke, When I get really degrading requests like this, which show the truely bad side of the the developing health care crisis, I fight back politely. I tell the insurance company I am sending their request to my senator, so that he can get a good look at their behavior, and tell them I am sending along with it a document from my billing system that shows just how late they pay. I note they are surely driven to these straits by the condition of the market in which they play, but that I feel this should be open knowledge and not a private agreement. I don't get a lot of answers back from these companies, but I certainly never get degrading requests from them again. Generally, I don't accept nasty insurance groups. It is too hard on my blood pressure. Joanne, the Old MD in Drain, Oregon. Locke's in Colorado wrote: Anyone get those faxes from insurances that say....agree to this deeply discounted rate on your charges and we'll pay you in 10-days or less! I've been getting them from Multiplan

recently. It is kind of interesting how your mind kind of warps around the words -- gee, if I sign this, they will pay me the money I'm owed and I won't have to wait and wait. But then one pops out of the fog and realizes the insurance company is asking the doctor to pay the insurance company (via the discount) to pay the doctor on time. Here, kind sir, please take this $20 bill so that you will pay me more quickly the $80 of the $100 you owe me. Something smells in Denmark. What do most of you do with those? Just pitch them? Write nasty notes on them and fax them back? Just curious. Locke, MD Basalt, CO =======================================Eau (WI) Family Medicine Residency 1994 Job Share w/ Wife5 Years in Air Force -- [Laughlin AFB (Del Rio, TX) // Spangdahlem AB, Germany]Joined Alpine Medical Group -- Private Group- Family Practice 1999-2007AMG went independent from hospital MSO 10/04AMG implemented Centricity EMR April 2005 AMG dissolved 17 August 2007 Locke Family Medicine begins 18 August 2007 www.LockeFamilyMedicine.com Implemented eClinicalWorks EMR 9/07

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