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Old 08-08-2016, 07:56 PM
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Default Mayo and Medicare

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Originally Posted by golfing eagles View Post
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?


I do.

Interestingly, CTCA seems to be loosening up a little, but still maintains what I would consider a very aggressive billing/payment posture.


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