Keep Best Insurance w/ Direct Care Program --> Re: Re: Dr

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I'm not doing this but it shouldn't be mutually exclusive. Third-party payors

in Georgia won't allow for a membership fee if you bill them for visits, but

this is not true in many other states. For an individual patient, I could

decide to not have them pay a membership fee if they had an insurance that

prohibits it. Problem for my practice is that the accounting/admin become a

nightmare. Much easier to treat everyone the same and have them deal with their

insurance carriers if they so choose.

Good luck. Always happy to hear when people decide not to play the insurance

game; it's not a step to take without careful thought but it can work.

Chad

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> Is anyone doing a combination of keeping 1 or 2 best payors combined with a

> direct care model?

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> Or is doing that mutually exclusive?

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> Or even prohibited by most insurance contracts in some way?

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> For example, keep Insurances #1 and #2 because they pay well and are easy to

> work with.

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> But have a direct care model for everyone else -- with or without a fee.

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> I don't recall if anyone has been doing this.

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> Thanks

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> Locke, MD

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