Over the past several years, out-of-pocket expenses for patients has risen dramatically due to a combination of increasing healthcare costs and evolving health insurance coverage requirements.
Let’s face it, a bill from a healthcare provider isn’t the easiest to understand.
With billing codes, charge amounts, allowed coverage amounts and patient responsibility amounts. Most often, patients simply want to know how much they will have to pay before they actually receive care.
At Aestique, we recognize the importance of understanding your out-of-pocket costs prior to your scheduled service date. We also value the trust you place in us in delivering quality care at an affordable cost.
Recent government regulations require hospitals to publish the amounts charged for services provided to patients. The hospitals must also determine the amount of out-of-pocket costs the patients will be responsible for paying. While this requirement is not being imposed on Surgery Center providers such as Aestique Surgical Center, we want you to know that price transparency is equally important to us. Having a patient that’s informed and knowledgeable about the care we’re providing, both medically and financially, is essential.
Of course, calculating out-of-pocket costs for care isn’t simple. There are many factors that go into the amount owed that include your annual deductible, how much of the deductible has already been paid, applicable co-insurance, co-payments owed and whether a maximum out-of-pocket cost has been reached.
The bottom line is that we’re here to help you understand how much you owe before any procedures are performed. Aestique financial counselors will make their best effort to accurately estimate your out-of-pocket expenses, based upon all the necessary clinical information, supplies needed, and patient’s insurance carrier coverage obtained from the ordering physician’s office.
In today’s consumer-driven health care options, we want to continue to be your provider of choice for all your outpatient healthcare needs. Keeping you informed of out-of-pocket financial costs in advance is a service we strongly believe in to permit you to make an informed choice and to make financial payment plans where needed.
Thank you for considering Aestique for your healthcare surgical procedures.
AESTIQUE AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER:
“Exceptional People, Providing Exceptional Surgical Care”.
