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Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

While it's not always practical, or even possible, to eliminate opioids from your post-op pain management regiment, reducing their use in favor of n...

Archive > September, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 9

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Billing for implants

Re: "Managers Get Tough on Implants" (July, page 62). We recently began using a third-party implant billing service and have found that some insurance companies won't pay for the implant through the billing service. The billing service then bills the patient. These patients are very angry when they get a bill for the implant from a company they've never heard of. We've had to deal with this twice now. A word of warning: Find out which insurance companies will pay for implants through billing services.

Steven H. Smith, RN
Director, Surgery Center of Wisconsin Rapids
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisc.
writeMail("ssmith@wroinstitute.com")

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