03/18/2014    

PODIATRISTS AND INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENT

178K Out-of-Network Payment to NY Podiatrist Spurs Investigation  

A Park Avenue podiatrist billed $178,900 to fix two crooked toes, office procedures that lasted less than an hour. Amazingly, insurance giant United Healthcare/Oxford paid most of the bill, cutting a check earlier this month for $175,098.80. Instead of sending the check to Dr. Suzanne Levine, a foot fixer with a roster of celebrity clients, United Healthcare mailed it to the shocked patient. And Levine’s office has been frantically trying to collect the money.

 

Patient Keith Kantrowitz said he’s holding onto the uncashed check until he gets answers. A spokeswoman for United Healthcare said it has launched an investigation “into the provider’s billing for out-of-network services, as charges like these are beyond egregious. We are suspending payment in this situation pending investigation.”

 

Source: Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein, New York Post [3/16/14]

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