This is illegal under medicare. This is called balance billing and if a physician does this, he is subject to $10,000 fine per incident and 2 years in prison for each occurence. So the government literally holds us at the point of a gun, nice, eh?
Welcome to Menglecare. Thank all your Obama voting friends out there. When the rest of America grows a pair and we decide to take back the country, make sure to kick each of them in the groin as a reminder of what this bastard has done to our country and tell them the are getting off lucky.
the doc and patient can privately contract to get a larger payment but it is a bitch to do.
the doc and patient can privately contract to get a larger payment but it is a bitch to do.