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A weird question for you.  For health insurance, are child members/patients required to have their legal name on the policy or can they instead use the name that they go by?  For instance, if a...

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I don't care what's on their insurance policy, but that's the name I will bill under and ONLY that name. If a patient tells me, "my name is Michael JONES-SMITH", not "Michael SMITH", then I tell them...

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Thanks for the info Sharon. I asked my personal insurance agent and he says ideally the name on the policy should match the name on the social security card, but it's not really enforced, so the...

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It will become a problem for the patient though, because with the newer laws about preventing identity theft it means (big generalization here) that they're going to have to show a picture ID that...

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I have often wondered if down the road children will have to have state issued photo IDs every year. I know of a couple people whose children's SS#s were used for identity theft. One person's 10 year...

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We buy our own insurance and I've never had to provide a birth certificate for our kids to any insurance company. I can't even recall if I had to send in a photo copy of my drivers license now that I...

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I go by what the insurance company has in their system. (Note:  The names are not real patients.Davis and Borush are my grandparents names and they are deceased) I had a claim denied for cant id...

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