South Portland doctor stops accepting insurance, posts prices online

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12. Nothing new here,

except the post-on-the-Internet thingy.

I worked for doctors who ran their practice this way decades ago; they eventually abandoned this for processing the insurance forms themselves, as so many patients needed help with the forms, it was faster to do them right the first time. Also, many insurance companies demand covential diagnostic and procedural coding, etc., which is impossible for 99% of patients to know how to do (requires updated manuals and training or experience). And that doesn't begin to touch seniors! I can remember poor seniors coming in with folders and boxes of papers from Medicare, Medicaid, and supplemental insurances, trying so hard to keep everything straight and know where they stood with deductibles, etc.