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This summer my gallbladder started acting up and after going to the emergency room twice I finally got it removed last month. I have insurance but there is a d
by jccalhoun 6y ago
This summer my gallbladder started acting up and after going to the emergency room twice I finally got it removed last month.
I have insurance but there is a deductable and a copay and the insurance company will decide not to cover things. I have gotten bills from the hospital, the radiologist, the surgeon, and the anesthesiologist even though they were all in the hospital. One of them has been sending me notices saying that - again even though they were in the hospital - the insurance company won't accept their billing so the insurance company will apparently at some point send me a check then I am supposed to send it to them and they will tell me how much I owe. My insurance company says so far I have been charged over $200,000 even though I have only had to pay around $4000 so far. But most of that $200,000 is fake because hospitals have a price they charge the insurance and then the insurance says "no, we're only paying this much" and the hospitals will say "Ok."
I got a bill for $1600 three weeks ago and there were no details on what it was for except for the date of when this started back in May. My insurance company didn't have anything that corresponded to that date so I called the hospital billing department. They were like, "Ok. we will refile it." and I haven't heard anything since.
I've also gotten bills in the mail for like $36. I go to the bill pay website and they say I don't own anything.
The actual surgery was 5 weeks ago tomorrow and I haven't had any bills about that at all.