08/30/2018
Insurance companies create a monopoly for patients and providers. This typically occurs at the demise of the patient both in terms of health but also financially. Over the years I have seen insurance payers find every way possible not to allow benefits that the individual pays for in premiums, and deny payments to the providers for quality and skilled services they provided. The article attached explains the process well.
More commonly than not as in-network providers, we are driven to provide care that the insurance company tells us we can do, which often is not what the patient needs. We have all heard doctors take an oath to the extent "do no harm", and while providing care based on insurance limitations is not directly harmful, omitting services a patient needs to ensure payment and to follow contractual obligations certainly is.
Many people may not know that hospitals, clinics, and doctors offices would love to offer cash plans for patients who wish to receive all-inclusive care for everything that they need to get healthy without limitations determined by insurance companies and their algorithms for determining benefit approval.
At Allisonville Integrative Health, we are working to create an environment where we can practice good healthcare, where patients get well, at a cost they can afford.
" We spend years in training to understand disease and to make good decisions when it comes to choosing appropriate tests and therapies. Yet we allow insurance companies to make the rules. We can no longer allow this type of behavior to occur... No longer can we allow bureaucrats to dictate medical care. Doctors and patients have the right to develop the most appropriate treatment plan" - Kevin Campbell, MD
If you, like us, are not going to let insurance companies dictate care and outcomes, we have several new programs that allow a patient to get all-inclusive care at an affordable price.
Allisonville Integrative Health
(317)842-1188
DrDrew@aihindy.com
