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Article: Readers Speak Out on Insurance Fee Changes
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 5, 2008
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We like to hear from our readers. From time to time the Federal
Diary prints a "speak out" column featuring your thoughts. The Nov.
26 and subsequent columns on planned changes in the Blue Cross/Blue
Shield standard option insurance plan for federal employees
generated lots of comments.
Among the changes, patients will pay 100 percent of the cost of
an operation by an out-of-network physician, up to $7,500 "per
surgeon, per surgical day." Currently the rate is 25 percent of what
the company sets for a procedure, plus any difference between that
and the billed amount.
Here are some of the letters addressing the change.
More and more physicians are opting out of health-care plans,
including ...