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Originally Posted by Scanner
I am wondering, just to throw a bit of controversey into the mix, if you called DisneySteve with a question about a lab test result or me with a question about an MRI result and we socked you with a bill for $240 after a couple of 5 minute phone calls, how would you feel?
I ask the question in earnest because I suppose I am jealous you can just bill people with little regulation or oversight in that regard.
I can tell you - our patients would have a total 100% meltdown. They'd come unglued.
Yet, it's funny - lawyers and accountants get away with padding their bills with little recourse or consumer pressure.
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A CPA should only charge $240 if they did one or 2 hours of work. We are talking more than a couple of 5-minute phone calls. I said we wouldn't have charged for those.
Physicians bill very differently than CPAs. It's an entirely different thing with insurance companies, etc.
Likewise, I have to tell you we don't pad our bills in the least. Who said anything about padding bills?
We bill what is fair.
I really don't think CPAs are in the realm of lawyers in the least. So I take insult to that. LOL. But seriously, attorneys are a league of their own.