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Caveat: All hospitals not managed identically. I'm sure there's a lot of varying billing policy, hospital to hospital. And varying ability to financially write
by ethbro 8y ago
Caveat: All hospitals not managed identically.
I'm sure there's a lot of varying billing policy, hospital to hospital. And varying ability to financially write off care.
As a gut guess, I'd expect rural hospitals to be the worst about this and suburban the best.
- pcarolan 8y agoI'm sure this is true. We've (unfortunately) now experienced this at 4 different hospital systems. The customer service is alarmingly similar. Hospital: "Call your insurance company and ask for a break" Insurance Company: "Call the hospital and ask for a break" Also, 2/4 of these hospitals had outsourced their billing which means they can't even make decisions on behalf of the hospital (and have a disincentive to write anything off). Seems like a structural way of avoiding writedowns.
- ethbro 8y agoWas going to ask about outsourcing. I don't know the market on provider billing, but I'd assume there are some companies that manage a number of facilities. And wow, does that search bring up a lot of astroturf: https://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+medical+billing+companies+by+size https://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+medical+billing+comp...