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Originally Posted by gerryann
I agree with you. However, there are some specialists that are at Mayo in Jacksonville that are not available close to where I need. That's the only reason I was asking.
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Like the post just above, a lot of time a MA plan will approve out of network charges if the service is completely unavailable in network. Mayo, MD Anderson, Sloan Cleveland Clinic are different. They generally are not Medicare participating providers, so they can charge what they want, request (ie: demand) cash up front and may help you submit charges. They generally do this with any insurance. There are two "chains" notorious for this---Cancer Treatment Centers of America and Laser Spine Institute. For reasons that would take 2 pages to elaborate, I would steer clear of those places. Dbussone, do you agree?