Your doctor will bill your insurance company (a lot), as well as the facility who wants cash for fear your co-payment check will bounce. Do not worry and take advantage of what they have to offer in full!
TY for your suggestions. I appreciate. I was losing all hope and didn't know where to go with this. It seemed kind of odd to me they would be pocketing the money too. And them telling me they only take cash. My famiuly phy. did tell me that as long as I go to my psaychologist that it would suffice in rather than going to Windstone Behavioral health. The only thing that is still an issue is that My doctor needs to lay off of asking me every time I go to an appointment is that he keeps asking me if I have checked into Windstone, and he still does. I did find another doctor on the Kaiser website, but going to give the doc a benefit of hte doubt first
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The receptionist doesn't run the place, she may think she does, but she doesn't. You need to speak with the office manager. What I would do is get this place's fax number, and call your insurance company. Tell them that this place keeps charging you a co-pay, which you don't have, and ask them to fax confirmation of this to their office. Then request a refund of all the co-pays they made you pay, and if they refuse contact your insurance company and ask for their assistance with it. I would be suspicious of this girl insisting on cash, she may be pocketing the money! It sounds like the doctors are good at this place, and the issue is the co-pay. If you still don't want to go there your doctor should respect your wishes. But if this is the only place your insurance covers, you really need to go there or else you would have to pay all out of pocket. Ask your insurance to help you resolve this. They are capable of doing this, as I have worked in medical billing, and in several doctor's offices. Good Luck to you, and don't let this take you down, it's a bump in the road which I know you can handle.