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2019-10-11 Economy

A doctor's office that charges $150 a month and doesn't take insurance just raised $26 million to take its model national

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-11 03:10|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Why in WOT - because traditional providers consider them terrorists?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-11 03:24|| 2019-10-11 03:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds fishy. This is non-insurance a la Delta Dental, which is just a moneymaking scheme, not a proper medical outfit.
What exactly is covered?

Also: is "Nat Turner" really the founder's given name? Sounds like a woke actor's stage name.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-11 05:33|| 2019-10-11 05:33|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 - moved to Non WOT

Posted by Frank G 2019-10-11 08:29|| 2019-10-11 08:29|| Front Page Top

#4 More and more providers refuse to take insurance. Who could blame them?

Posted by Iblis 2019-10-11 10:38|| 2019-10-11 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds fishy.

It’s concierge medicine, an alternate method of paying for treatment than the usual insurance game. My previous GP moved to it when he found himself uncomfortable with the level of autonomy he would lose to choose treatments when he looked into hooking up with one of the hospital-linked groups that the insurance companies he dealt with wanted him in. Often enough the doctor finds he can deliver medical care at a cheaper cost because he and his staff do not have to spend hours on the phone arguing with insurance companies, nor wait months for the insurers to get around to paying for services rendered. And he doesn’t have to play silly games shoehorning a patient’s symptoms into the permitted diagnoses in order to get the patient necessary treatment or give up prescribing a necessary treatment because it is not on the approved list.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-11 11:58|| 2019-10-11 11:58|| Front Page Top

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