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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (6510)	3/25/2009 8:02:48 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The patient is being told that whatever he does, DO NOT LEAVE with an itemized statement of the services he was provided. I don't get that. What is the point? Did you ask? The point was they wanted it for their internal accounting. Generally, clinics want to be able to account for each fee slip because that's how they know nobody walked out without paying. But it is strange in that the "superbill" was originally developed as a piece of paper a patient could take with him that had all the information required for filing a HCFA-1500 claim form. I found it interesting that now, the clinic is basically saying, "You don't need any documentation of your visit". I simply insisted on a copy and it wasn't a problem or anything, but I found it amusing.