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If you have medicaid or other health insurance can a medical provider file a lien against the bill instead of billing Medicaid or the health carrier?
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A provider is not required to accept Medicaid or private insurance. However, if the provider indicated to you that s/he was doing so in your case, there's at least an ethical problem. In Illinois, a provider who accepts a patient as Medicaid cannot bill the patient if Medicaid fails to pay due to the provider's negligence in billing.
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