I manage an oral surgery practice (not in this area). This originated from an insurance company advising us that due to the increased cost of PPE's and to give the staff hazard pay due to the fact that it is very difficult to put your staff in this situation, we could bill and they would pay an extra $10.00 each time we saw a patient. This is one insurance company. We have chosen to bill every insurance company this charge, but so far only one has paid. We have made the decision not to pass this charge on to our patients, though our expenses are much greater than they were before Covid. Our income is much less as we are seeing less than a third of our previous schedule.
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