"Matt Beckwith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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For most managed care plans, obesity is a non-covered diagnosis. For this reason, if a patient comes to see me asking for help losing weight, and this is the only thing we discuss on the visit, and I submit the claim to the insurance company, it won't be paid.
A common practice in this situation is to address at least one other (covered) diagnosis during the visit, so that the visit will be paid. But one might construe this to be fraud.
I would like to provide weight loss services (i.e. diet pills) to my patients. I want to charge them separately from their insurance plans, since weight loss is not covered under their plans.
If your patient is achieving weight loss, there will likely be a need to adjust blood pressure and/or diabetic medications. You wouldn't need to bill separately for that.
Question for the group. Benign case of atrial fib. Taking 5 mg of warfarin. Have no problems with it so far. Ir ususally reads in low 2's. The problem is doctor is out of town for a week and have a badly inflammed knee. Need an anti-inflammatory like naproxin. Not sure I can take it. Or is there an alternative?? Does anyone know? Tylenol is all I have taken.
"Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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"Matt Beckwith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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For most managed care plans, obesity is a non-covered diagnosis. For
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reason, if a patient comes to see me asking for help losing weight, and
this
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is the only thing we discuss on the visit, and I submit the claim to the insurance company, it won't be paid.
A common practice in this situation is to address at least one other (covered) diagnosis during the visit, so that the visit will be paid.
But
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one might construe this to be fraud.
I would like to provide weight loss services (i.e. diet pills) to my patients. I want to charge them separately from their insurance plans, since weight loss is not covered under their plans.
If your patient is achieving weight loss, there will likely be a need to adjust blood pressure and/or diabetic medications. You wouldn't need to bill separately for that.
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"dwvick" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Question for the group. Benign case of atrial fib. Taking 5 mg of
warfarin.
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Have no problems with it so far. Ir ususally reads in low 2's. The problem is doctor is out of town for a week and have a badly inflammed knee. Need an anti-inflammatory like naproxin. Not sure I can take it. Or
is
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there an alternative?? Does anyone know? Tylenol is all I have taken.
The only anti-inflammatory you can take with some degree of safety are the newer, prescription, cox-2 inhibitors (Vioxx, Celebrex, Mobic, Bextra). Even then they may affect the coumadin effect and so the INR's will need to be monitored if you are on them for a long time (even Tylenol can do that).
