Patient Power

Medicaid Billing: nothing simple about it.

Advocates for more government control of health care like to say that having only one “insurer” will simplify billing. For a brief introduction to their 68-slide version of simple billing, browse through the Colorado Medical Assistance Billing Program 2007 Practioner Billing Workshop, available here .

Administrative overhead anyone?

• Administrative costs: whose are lower?
• “Medicare has lower administrative costs”
• Adminstrative costs: Medicare vs. insurance companies
• Medicare and administrative costs
• Distorted priorities of Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid)