Question:
Can surgeons charge program fees to Medicare and Medicaid patients?

   — [Anonymous] (posted on August 6, 2001)

August 7, 2001
8-7-01 Doctors cannot charge any fees at all if you are Medicaid and they are a Medicaid provider. There are no co-payments and doctors and other providers can't ask you for one penny. But Medicare is very different and even if a doctor accepts Medicare assignment they are still authorized and legally able to collect additional monies from a client for any services they offer. (Of course they don't have to though... and some won't ask you to pay additionally). Medicaid is definitely the best insurance out there from a financial standpoint. Fran Gomez
   — Fran B.