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Article: Free up your fees
- Article from:
- Medical Economics
- Article date:
- August 21, 2009
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HEALTH PLAN PAYMENT SCHEDULES AREN'T SET IN STONE. NEGOTIATE FOR WHAT YOU'RE WORTH.
If you've never tried to negotiate payment schedules with your health plans- or if you haven't had success in the past- the tide may be turning in your favor. Consider it an unexpected result of the nation's growing shortage of primary care physicians.
A University of Missouri study last year predicted a shortfall of 44,000 primary care physicians by 2025, and state medical societies from Wisconsin to Florida are already proclaiming their lack of physicians. Meanwhile, leading healthcare reform legislation embraces primary care as the core of the nation's new system. At the same time, health plans- including ...