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Balance billing

Janet Balbierz3/31/22 8:44 AM (CDT)
If I am not on a particular insurance panel but the patient wants to see me anyway and pay the "self pay" rate, do I have to do anything differently?  It seems this would not be balance billing.  Sometimes my self pay rate is higher than the insurance rates, sometimes lower depending upon the insurance (the self pay amount does not change).  We submit the bill as my usual charges with a courtesy discount to the self pay rates.  Thoughts? JMB
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