Billing Information for Procedures Performed at Acadiana Surgery Center, Inc.

We are happy to file claims with your insurance company for services provided. To ensure that your claims are paid appropriately, and to reduce unnecessary cost to you, please be sure to provide the receptionist with your most current insurance information. Include all secondary/supplemental policies.

Sometime before your procedure, we will call you with an estimate of your portion of the bill. Unfortunately, we are only able to estimate your portion of the bill based on the information provided by your insurance, and based on the procedure ordered. Sometimes, during the course of a procedure, Dr. Stokes may find it necessary to remove a polyp, or take a biopsy, etc. This may increase the cost of your procedure. Therefore, the amounts quoted by our office prior to your procedure are only estimates.

If our office has not contacted you by the day before your procedure, and you do not have 100% coverage by your insurance company (or supplement), please call our office to obtain these estimated costs.

When you come in for your procedure, the receptionist will collect the amounts you have discussed on the pre-procedure phone call. Due to the fact that you will be sedated for the procedure, these amounts are collected before the procedure.

Iberia Gastroenterology Associates, Inc. and Acadiana Surgery Center, Inc. are two separate corporations. You will receive a bill for Dr. Stokes' fee and a facility fee for Acadiana Surgery Center, Inc. This is not considered an office procedure; therefore, office visit copays do not apply. If paying by check, please write separate checks for Dr. Stokes and Acadiana Surgery Center, Inc.

You will not receive a bill for your procedure until after your insurance company has paid. However, if you make payment arrangements for your share of the bill, please send these payments monthly as stated in the agreement.

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