• celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    10 days ago

    I love how the insurance company, the party that has no medical expertise whatsoever, gets to unilaterally decide how much that MRI will cost you today.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      19
      ·
      10 days ago

      The sad thing is they do hire some licensed healthcare professionals to fall back on when appealed. They just look for the least compassionate MDs to rubber stamp denials.

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        10 days ago

        Eh, generally a peer to peer won’t get denied but requiring a peer to peer is a good way to waste the doctors time in the hopes they’ll give up on the request. The instance company isn’t paying the doctor extra time to perform the peer to peer after all. Now if that time was billable, you’d see it go away real fast.