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Billing & Insurance |
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If your bill has a high "cash-due-from-you" balance due, contact our billing company right away. As with most medical service providers, our fee schedule has had to
be limited in flexibility in order to deal with all of the automated functions required in the billing & collections industry.
In the "olden
days", the "deal" on medical
treatment was between the doctor and the patient. Those
days are gone, as to billing and payment for services rendered.
Our group contracts with a professional pathology billing service
(Pathology Service Associates, LLC in Florence, S. C.). And a number
of additional local people involved with our practice are involved
in attempting to correctly process your situation and file it for
you with your insurance coverage. There are thousands of insurance
plans, and many different sets of rules.
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ALERT!
Make
sure that we have your correct insurance information in force
on the date that our services were rendered or they probably
won't cover your claim: |
| American Medical Association's brief, one page summary of health insurance basics. |
| Top reasons our claims for services
to you get denied by your insurance company. |
| Our group is contracted
with these insurance plans. |
| By your
medical event, check our group's fee
charging. |
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HELP for YOU:
We want to be as much of a help as reasonably possible, and you
can help us to help you. **About
Health Insurance: how to help yourself and get help***.
But, in the final analysis, the responsibility to keep things moving
toward successful settlement of claims & payment of coverage on your bills is yours (the patient's or patient's
personal representative is ultimately responsible). |
You are encouraged
to securely submit initial or additional billing information "on-line" by
internet to our billing company's web site. If you have more policies
than a primary and secondary, submit information in the comments
box. For successful processing of your claim, it is vital that
we have precisely correct insurance information:
sending
your additional insurance info to our billing office through the web |
| E-MAIL at ANY TIME: Corresponding with
billing office by
e-mail or on the above web site has the
advantage of 24 hour per day, 365 day per year access. ALWAYS indicate
your name as correspondent AND the name and the account number
that is on the bill or notice from our practice. |
Remittance address: As of Feb.
2002, payments are to
P.O. Box 52990
Greenwood, S. C. 29649. |
BILLING & INSURANCE
TOLL-FREE TELEPHONES & FAX IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU MUST CALL (or
don't have internet e-mail access).
Phone: 877-268-1012 (Hispanic
interpretation available)
FAX: 877-268-1254
Monday-Thursday,
8 am-9pm
EST
Friday, 8am-8
pm |
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| (posted Sept.
2001; last addition/update 15 April 2007) |
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1999 - 2006, all rights reserved, Pathology Associates Of Lexington,
P.A. |
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