Health insurance companies have told me, on the phone, that they will not tell me the codes the doctor needs to charge for preventative visits in order to for m

Health insurance companies have told me, on the phone, that they will not tell me the codes the doctor needs to charge for preventative visits in order to for my visit to be covered as preventative care (meaning I don’t have to pay anything). However, I could tell the insurance customer service person a code, then they could tell me if it was classified as a covered preventative service. So I, the insurance company’s customer, Googled medical procedure codes and found some on random PDFs, and checked which ones were covered, and then I asked the doctor to provide me the services for that code. That is American healthcare. On the flip side, I also had a doctor’s office try to bill my insurance $25 for towels used to wipe the ultrasound jelly off my wife’s belly. My insurance didn’t pay, so the doctor’s office sent me the bill for what insurance didn’t cover, so I called the doctor’s office and asked why I am being charged $25 for the few pieces of paper towel (not even linen towel), and the receptionist said they would waive the charge. So, moral of the story is bring your own paper towel roll when you expect to get messy at the doctor’s office.