Insurance
Call: 1-800-863-9347
Although rapidly changing, traditional health and accident insurance policies are an arrangement between the company and the patient, which are designed to reimburse the patient for part of their health care costs. High deductibles and co-pays have made insurance reimbursement for out-patient services less recently. Your health savings account is a great source of payment for our services. Our office will prepare free first insurance statements necessary to assist you in filing your claims monthly, and will file them on your behalf. Most insurance companies prefer prompt notification of pending claims and we urge you to notify them promptly. We need your understanding that all services furnished through this office on a patients's behalf are their personal responsibility, or that of the parent or guardian of a child, including insurance related and outside consultative services.
Our current contract with Medicare allows for them to reimburse you for a portion of your per office visit expense for what they call "manual manipulation of the spine". We send in your claims to Medicare at no charge to you monthly, and you should hear back from Medicare within four-eight weeks after that with your reimbursement. Sorry for their delays.
Worker's Compensation insurance requires the employer's approval before they authorize us to examine or treat the patient on their behalf. Usually, when work related, an injury can be authorized to be treated up to six months after the onset of the injury. If you have been injured in a work related setting, please contact us at 1-800-863-9347. Not all work injuries are best handled through the worker's compensation system, and you don't HAVE TO run your work injury through your employer's Worker's Compensation Insurance. In fact, you may LOSE some very important rights when you do. The State of NE. has information for you to review when you get injured at work, and we have forms here for you to start the work compensation process. We work with many local employers to help get their injured workers treated and back to work.
IMPORTANT: After each visit here, you will receive a Patient Visit Summary (PVS) form, which tells you what was done at your office visit, and what directions the Dr. gave you to do at home. Some or all of the procedure codes performed are also reflected on that form, but it is NOT a valid form for any insurance company to use for reimbursement because they require diagnosis codes, etc. as well. Please do NOT send/give these forms to your insurance people; it just created confusion for them and you lose your "home care" instructions. Thank YOU.
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