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A lot of the practical billing annoyances would go away if the individual practitioners had to get paid by the hospital instead of directly by the patient’s ins
by kd5bjo 7y ago
A lot of the practical billing annoyances would go away if the individual practitioners had to get paid by the hospital instead of directly by the patient’s insurance, like subcontractors in any other industry. As a patient, you should be dealing financially with no more than 2 parties: your insurance provider and the hospital.
- wool_gather 7y agoVery much agree. This is something you learn after a hospital visit or two, and it makes no sense. Doubly so since, as a patient undergoing examination/treatment, you have zero chance of sussing out who is who, what organization they work for, how their billing works, etc. All you know is someone came into the room to run a test or otherwise interact with you. It's not like you can interrogate them and then refuse their services -- among other things, they don't even know how their financial org is going to bill you.