Discount Agreements

TRPN DirectPay Sends Provider Dangerous “Agreement”

Three Rivers Provider Network DirectPay (TRPN) is at it again, this time faxing an unprompted and potentially dangerous Business Associate Agreement (BAA...

Bill The Hartford and Get Lowballed by StrataCare

There’s a shamelessness to the ways some payers and vendors try to increase profits by slashing California doctors’ reimbursements for treating injured workers.Claims ...

CA: CBCS Fishes for 40% Discount on Med-Legal Services

Discount vendor Reliant tried to slash a California Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME)’s bill by 40% on behalf of Cottingham & Butler Claims Services, LLC (CBCS), the Third-Pa...

MARS & MultiPlan Threaten MD With “Intervention” (Part 2)

As daisyNews reported yesterday, a California doctor received an unsolicited "agreement" from Medical Audit & Review Solutions (MARS) pressuring the doctor to accept steep pa...

MARS & MultiPlan Threaten MD With "Intervention" (Part 1)

A California doctor sent a bill to a Third-Party Administrator (TPA), for treatment the TPA had authorized. In response, the doctor received a fax from Medical Audit & Review...

Former PPO Employee: "I Felt Like I Was 'Legally' Robbing" Doctors

Prime Health Services (PHS) operates like a high-pressure "call center," pushing employees to sign providers onto reimbursement discount contracts by making promises t...

Provider Alert: Do Not (Not!) Sign PhysNet Discount “Agreement”

A California provider narrowly avoided financial pain when their office signed (but thankfully never delivered) a reimbursement discount agreement PhysNet sent to the practic...