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I currently use hospital billing as an example when explaining the halting problem. You’re never sure if you’ve paid off an incident or if another bill will sho

• mgr86 8y ago
  Before we were married my wife had an MRI. Having not met her deductible they sent her a bill for 1.5k. Not ideal but we were able to afford it and paid the bill. 364 days later we received another bill for roughly the same. We thought there was an error. After months of back and forth, even after they had told us for 2months that “they took care of it and we would not be charged” we ended up having to pay another $500. This whole process was beyond infuriating. The other bill apparently came from the Dr who read the MRI. The fun part was we were never contacted by that Dr about the results. She eventually left the hospital and she canceled our follow up appointment.