be within the realm of solution by an automated health care registry.
Rachel Foerster
-Original Message-
From: William J. Kammerer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 5:24 PM
To: WEDi/SNIP ID Routing
Subject: Re: Non-participating/out of network providers
transactions are
available to the provider for communicating with the payer, why wouldn't
he prefer to use them rather than the smile-and-dial rigmarole?
Even payers are champing at the bit, wanting to conduct eligibility
inquiries electronically with out-of-network or non-participating
providers
; if they want the business,
they have to help the patient navigate the insurance waters - even
though the patient is ultimately responsible in a meta-physical sense.
But the issue of identification and routing of transactions to payers
from non-participating or out-of-network providers isn't one
Rachel,
I believe that the hard line physicians are beginning to take re: courtesy
billing a patient's (non-par) insurance reflects just how labor-intensive
that process can be. I initiated the very same policy in my office over a
year ago. There is no question that patients like the doctor
