Hockey, I had nocticed in some programs the ability to set different fee schedules for different insureres, but my gut told me "don't you do that." And you just voiced what my gut was warning me about.
We would like to (if we could actually afford to) charge some of our low-income, unisured patients less, but I think to legally do it I would need to 1) set up a special fee schedule for them, and 2) Ask for alot of personal information (like their income, etc) and then save it in case of some type of audit I can show this is a formal program based on "ability to pay." But I really don't have the energy to set it up. Or to even research it to insure I set it up properly.
