Needless to say, physicians tend to like the insurers that pay the most and with the least hassle which is good, but which also may mean higher premiums relative to those who pay less and more tightly review claims. Here is a slide show of the full report. You might want to take a look.
Top 10 insurers according to physicians
Written by Shannon Barnet (Twitter | Google+) | October 22, 2014
Insurers play a huge role in the professional lives of physicians but working together isn’t always easy, according to the Medscape Insurer Ratings Report 2014.
When asked to rate insurers on overall performance on a scale of one to five, physicians rated only four insurers “above average” with a score of more than three.
The following 10 insurers, not including Medicaid and Medicare, were rated the best in overall performance.
Blue Plans — 3.3 (out of 5.0)
Aetna — 3.2
Cigna — 3.2
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care — 3.1
Medical Mutual of Ohio — 3.0
United Healthcare — 2.9
Kaiser Foundation Health — 2.9
Humana — 2.9
HealthNet — 2.8
Oxford Health Plans — 2.8
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Back when my father was in private practice, and I was the kid working in his office, the payments from insurers varied all over the place. Some (none of the companies on the list above) were so hard to get payments from that when patients walked in the door with those companies’ insurance, the patients were told that they would be treated as cash payers, and they would have to try to get the reimbursement from the insurers themselves. Really, some are that bad.
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The system is nuts. I don’t know how any physician can cope with it.
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