It was revealed recently that in Michigan at some doctor’s offices, patients will be required to present and use credit cards before receiving medical care. A fairly new internet based medical payment program allows medical providers to secure a credit card before medical help is provided.
Touting the fact that it is a way of making sure medical providers get paid while keeping administrative costs down, the company has been around since 2008. It works like this: upon arriving at their doctors office, patients are told by their medical care provider what the maximum amount a particular procedure will most likely cost. The patient slides their credit card, gets the procedure done, and strolls out of the office with a receipt and a detailed slip of services provided.
The provider will then bill the insurance company of the patient. It will inform the provider how much of the work is covered; the balance left over is charged on the card. If a deductible has not been met, then the entire price of the procedure is charged to the patient.
With the increase of health care costs, more pressure has been placed on patients to pay their bills in the form of co pays, out of pocket expenses, and higher deductibles. With this increasing stress, unpaid and delinquent bills have become big issues for medical providers.
Patient’s health care payments are currently over three hundred billion dollars a year, and that number is expected to balloon up to twice that number by 2015. From this number, fifty to sixty billion dollars of current health care debts go unpaid. The program has proven to reduce delinquent accounts by up to eighty percent.
Yet some experts remain skeptical. The huge issue of patients who do not pay their credit card balance every month has not yet been resolved, much less the issue of a patient not having a credit card.
I work for a credit debt collection agency. Avoid collection harassment by using our collection services. Also published at Will That Be Plastic Or Plastic? Medical Patients Now Required To Use Credit Cards.
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