Dermatology Coding Alert
Reader Questions:
Skip No-Show Fees for Referrals
Published on Thu May 05, 2011
Question:
Illinois Subscriber
Answer:
No, the referring physician should not charge a no-show fee to the patient in he is not the doctor expecting to see the patient.Here's why: A no-show fee is designed to capture some money for the lost time and resources the missed appointment took up and the referring physician would not have lost anything.
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