Apologies

2002-06-29 Thread Rachel Foerster
After reflection and after having received some personal messages from this list's members, I offer everyone my personal apologies for the recent spate of unprofessional messages from me. Rest assured that I regret having sent such messages to this list and that it will not recur. Rachel Rachel

Your are invited to HIPPA Transaction Testing Presentation

2002-06-29 Thread Julie A. Thompson
Agenda 1.Testing Methodologies 2.Building Client Specific Test Data 3.Certification Options 4.How to determine a return on investment for the transaction implementations? Please respond to this email to confirm your attendance and receive valuable presentation materials.

RE: Your are invited to HIPPA Transaction Testing Presentation

2002-06-29 Thread Rachel Foerster
Julie, When, where, how, duration, cost? Rachel Foester -Original Message- From: Julie A. Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 12:20 PM To: 'WEDi SNIP 4 (E-mail 3) '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Julie A. Thompson Subject: Your are invited to HIPPA Transaction

Re: Non-participating/out of network providers

2002-06-29 Thread William J. Kammerer
With the advent of standard transactions, the marginal cost to large providers (or their billing service or clearinghouse agent) of using EDI with any new payer that comes along (i.e, their first encounter with a patient insured by that payer) will drop significantly. Regardless of the payer, the

Re: Non-participating/out of network providers

2002-06-29 Thread Christopher J. Feahr, OD
Rachel, I believe that the hard line physicians are beginning to take re: courtesy billing a patient's (non-par) insurance reflects just how labor-intensive that process can be. I initiated the very same policy in my office over a year ago. There is no question that patients like the doctor