This clinic has received “Outstanding Care” awards, some including publicly disclosed monetary awards, from Group Health, Regence Blue Shield and Community Health Plan of Washington. The doctor broke away from the once only clinic here to start his own non-profit clinic (which an attorney friend told me was a way for the doctors to pay themselves a bigger salary) and has received awards I never heard mention of while he was at the other clinic. My question is: If the insurance companies are giving out these monetary awards to clinics, are those clinics intentionally and willfully downplaying or flat-out misdiagnosing patients in order to avoid further treatment and cost to the insurance companies. Something’s fishy when insurance companies are giving their money away.
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