Card Scams
Insurance companies have been issuing customers credit cards to pay doctors. That’s a nice thing. You know, they are always there to help us. Unfortunately, they have been charging doctors as much as 5% per transaction which results in physicians getting less than the negotiated prices for services. Nothing like getting a 5% cut that you didn’t bargain for? Why are docs using these guys again? Just another reason to support direct pay models.
We have been getting this crap at our office for the last 2 months. I called a phone number on the bottom of the statement with the “card”, and told them “NO”, that they had to send a check…. now no more cards, and the credit card processing fee.