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Yikes, what a bill. My mother had brain surgery a few years ago and didn’t have to pay for anything besides the insurance she always pay for which amounts to a
by mosselman 8y ago
Yikes, what a bill. My mother had brain surgery a few years ago and didn’t have to pay for anything besides the insurance she always pay for which amounts to a few hundred euros a year.
- ryanmercer 8y ago>Yikes, what a bill. Yeah, cancer-related bills can add up fast. Worse, they'll send you bills for years after the fact... my father had been dead almost a decade from his cancer and the occasional bill would still come and my mom would have to spend hours arguing with them on the phone "uh yeah, he's dead, he's been dead, this happened a decade ago, get your shit together" and they'd usually be all 'oops our bad' almost like they were trying to double dip. We need some serious healthcare reform in the US.
- mosselman 8y agoCan’t imagine how hurtful and frustrating that can be. People make jokes about the health care system in th US, but in reality there isn’t anything funny about it.
- bloopernova 8y agoWe've encountered double dipping too, in dentist's bills and various healthcare bills. It's this whole circular firing squad of people charging others as much as possible for every little thing. Individually you may do OK, but the system is made more and more complex and stressful with each extra charge.
- jandrese 8y agoThe worst thing about this is that it teaches patients to ignore bills from hospitals, because so much of the time the bill is bullshit. They're just fishing for rubes that will pay it without realizing that the insurance is already paying for it. Then when a real bill comes they get angry at you for ignoring it, even though it was mostly indistinguishable from their bullshit bills.
- Mountain_Skies 8y agoThe terribly low degree of accuracy in medical billing might be partially why the credit agencies are placing lower weight on medical debt than they used to.
- inteleng 8y agoThis wasn't cancer, though.
- buckminster 8y agoIn the UK there's a time limit of six years on starting any kind of civil action. If a business discovers they forgot to invoice someone ten years ago they have to write it off.