Assiniboine Medical Clinic
| Q | What is an Uninsured Service? |
| A | An Uninsured service is a service provided by the physician that is not covered under Medicare Manitoba Heath. Prices and examples of such can b found on the Patient Infomation page. |
| Q | How are uninsured services paid? |
| A | Uninsured services must be paid at the time of the service is rendered. Forms completed by the physician will not be sent to the requesting company or released to the patient until the service has been paid for. At the Assiniboine Medical Clinic we accept Cash, Debit, Master Card, Visa and Cheque. |
| Q | Why do we now have to pay for uninsured services? |
| A | Physicians are paid in
a system called "Fee-for-Service". This means that they are paid
piecemeal for each service rendered. They are not paid by salary.
When they see a patient, do a procedure and/or fill out a form, an
invoice is submitted to Manitoba Health. For an uninsured service,
an invoice cannot be sent to Manitoba Health and, as such, it is then
the responsibility of the patient to pay. Physicians have always had the ability to bill patients for uninsured services, but have not always done so. The main reason for this is simply that it has been ignored. Due to rising overhead costs associated with the provision of medical services, the Assiniboine Medical Clinic now finds itself needing to invoice patients for the uninsured services requested. |
| Q | What is a PDF file? |
| A | Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. A PDF file can describe documents containing any combination of text, graphics, and images in a device independent and resolution independent format. To view these files you must ahve the adobe acrobat reader. You can get this program at www.adobe.com. |
| Q | Why do the PDF files not open for me? |
| A | For PDF files to work, you must have acrobat reader installed onto your computer. You can get this program at www.adobe.com and click on the "get Adobe Reader" button that is close to the bottom of the page. Another reason that the PDF file will not open is do to the fact that when opening a PDF file from the Assiniboine Medical Clinic's webpage, it opens in a new window. Please make sure that your web browser does not prohibit new windows from opening. |
| Q | Why do the links to other sites not work? |
| A | When visiting another webpage via a link from the Assiniboine Medical Clinic's webpage, it opens in a new window. Please make sure that your web browser does not prohibit new windows from opening. |
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For any other general questions, you may contact us via telephone |
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