Leslie,

Losing a patient that does that is the least of my worries. I'm intrigued by your letter. However, running that down is staff intensive, burns up lots of telephone energy ("What insurance check? I don't know no stinking insurance check!!"), and the part of our patient population who does this sort of stuff would probably respond with something like "Bite me!" Easier to turn it over to collections and fire the patient.


David Grauman MD
Department of Medicine
Commonwealth Health Center
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands