UF00083598_00027.pdf

UF00083598_00027.txt

UF00083598_00027_pdf.txt

Munroe Memorial Hospital

Guy and County Owned
Ocela. Flode

April 27. 1953

Honorable Phrrie Bryant
Speeker or the Home of Rem-eunutivee
Tellemeeee, Florida

Dear Ferries

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I don't recall having requested aw perennel revere me- you in the peat hut thie
House 8111 89. A58 abeolutel: earn as and I would eineerelv appreciate your
support in defeating it.

Thie bill would require tax eupported hoepdtale to blindly encept upon presente-
tion my ineurance can! or policy preeented to the hoepdtel provided it ie
registered in the State. It thie law is paeeed I can eeeure you that w an:
your tax-e will go up to compensate for the lose to the heepital in theneueie
e: dollare.

matwutmmwumt thielaueeuld emu-e315.qu ex-inn
heepitale:

l. The heepitel cannot interpret eccuretely the We at different peliciee
preeented. Mtiuemrind thet certainphraeeeneanenethinteueenl
an entirely dirrerent thing to the insurance cm.

2. Jnet heceuee e een can-lee e cent ie not menu-ll: an indicetien thet hie
ineureneeuillpayetr. Mtbetheinmmmeminromuethattm
patient neeed a patent. eix loathe ege end ie not covered for hie opentien.
Often tieee a person have hie inmrenee ie dropped and etill preeente hie cud
hoping that they won't fire! out until too let...

3. Many time a patient will uee up hie coverage in one Menitel then pee te
mother hoepital yet the eecend hoepitel would be required to accept the end.

A. mite frequently an ineuranee cup-w will infer. the hoepital that the
petient ehould rile direct heeeuee of em queetion in the china.

5. Film-isle hoepitale hen atteupted te join uith the insurance manna ee that
a atuxiudieedieneenheueedintilingclnine. Ienaheidifthiehillpueee
eeeae ineunnee mpeniee an me they have ne ever e haul and will ineiet their
particuler torn he need. We would uh it neeeeeary for heepitele to e-pley more
clerical help einee eel-e {one are long dram out. ie an ample, the Reeem
Inuence cm le not: keeping mmne unsettled by their verioue rem going te
doetore, heepitale mi petiente. After entficient tine hee elnpeed we write the
immmtofixdeutehypwntheemtheenMeendtheenu-rm
back that they did not get all the intomtion m- the petient or deeter er thet
the patient annex-ed one thing and the doctor nether. Apprently they atteupt to
catch eel-hotly in e Metal:- 5 the clai- can he rejected.

6. Aoneor teedaypatientdeeemtelleeenomtiaeteheertmtheineuranee
companiee becauee new remee to accept e telephone cell. Routinely met heepitale
try to help the patient collect hie inennnee. When the petient entere thie neepitel

wines-telephone theineunneeeeepaqyroreppneal. Hhenthieeppeevalheeheee

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Munroe Memorial Hospital

City end County Owned
Ocale. Floride

April 27, 1953

Honorable Ferris W Page 2.

eecured giving the amounte to be pad and uv other intonation moose-:7 to no,

we then 51w the patient credit for thet insurance on hie bill. If we ore unoblo
to oocure thin intonation {no the We coupon before the petient lune
uehnonochoicebuttonekthepetienttopoyhieulluuoxpleinthetndll
help m- collect hie insurance. Actual; any thee :11 we con do 1e eel: o mum
to eignonote udenuoignenthoqtlmtthoinomnceulwoft. Hitdoeo
not we try to collect m:- tho petient on the note. It is w fooling that the
hoepitnl should not enter into the potiont'e contract since it ie eta-let]; hie
poreonel affair the some no insurance e pox-eon We on his automobile.

myllmowmmbueyomdonothenthetonedmnomtImmm-e
you thet thiehillie dangerous.

Thank you for your help. Meet peroonnl regards,

roux-e very truly,

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