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Is the patient responsible for deductible and coinsurance if primary insurance paid more than secondary would have allowed.
A patient with a chart is usually in the hospital. With that said, most hospital stays including the tests done for a patient are paid for by an insurance company. Since the hospital is already paid, it seems logical that a copy of the patient's chart should be given freely. It would seem to be a patient "right".
Yes, up to the amount Medicaid would have paid if the patient had no other coverage.
In Illinois, a provider who accepts a patient as Medicaid cannot bill that patient for anything for which Medicaid would have paid had the provider timely and properly billed Medicaid.
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This helps to keep patient payments up to date. The ledger shows the date the patient was billed and how much they paid.
Share deposit money refers to checks that can be paid on demands. Letters of credit can also be deposit money.
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so the doctor office can get paid
Yes, of course it's theft and larceny. If you are the doctor or hospital and you treated the patient, you expect to get paid. If the patient's insurance company decided that charges were acceptable and released a check and the patients KNOWINGLY cashed it and not paid you (as the doctor) back, would you feel that your patient stole money that is yours to pay for your services? Would you ever work for free? By cashing insurance checks that belong to doctors and hospitals is like asking them to work for free.
A credit adjustment reduces the patient's account balance. Which means money that the patient had paid and has been acredited to their balance.
Because physician can get paid.