RE: Anyone go to an OB/GYN practice that does NOT accept insurance?
I have only heard of one example of this, so I'm interested in people's responses. In Washington DC, a co-worker went to a gynecologist at George Washington Hopsital Center who was very interested in alternative and complementary medicine. Just as I was considering going to him, my co-worker showed me a letter he'd sent to all his patients saying he was going to stop accepting any insurance, thus necessitating him leaving the gyn department, and solely practice out of the Center for Alternative Medicine at the hospital. His letter said he did it to stop spending so much time on paperwork and be more free to treat patients as he saw fit. He said he and his staff would be more than willing to provide paperwork that patients could submit on their own for reimbursement, or to help provide referrals to other doctors.
I never met this doctor, so his letter and my co-worker's rave reviews are all I know about him. I'm not sure this no-insurance policy would for me as his patient, but I admired him for doing something to improve his professional quality of life.
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