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Similarly to how medical providers can nonsensically create post-facto arbitrary bills instead of sticking to contracts like every other industry. While medica
by cperciva 5y ago
Similarly to how medical providers can nonsensically create post-facto arbitrary bills instead of sticking to contracts like every other industry.
While medical providers do seem to take this to ludicrous, my understanding is that there's an underlaying common law principle concerning actions taken on behalf of someone in an emergency, and it's not just medical providers to whom this applies.
- mindslight 5y agoYes, "unjust enrichment". But it doesn't entitle one to imagine arbitrarily exaggerated prices and demand reimbursement based on them.
- oceanghost 5y agoTwo true stories... When my partner was pregnant, the OBGYN's office would send us small little bills despite us having paid our copay's. The bills ranged from $40-$200 and did not indicate what the bill was for, listing it as something generic "misc services" for instance. I called down there once and asked what the bill was for and the person I spoke to could not tell me. So, I didn't pay any of them switched OBGYN's. Second story, the partner had incredible stomach pain... we ended up in the ER, paid the co-pay, etc. A couple months later I get a bill for 1k for seeing an out of network doctor. I call the insurance company and ask if that's correct and this is what they told me: That the hospital had a habit of sending out fraudulent bills, and that they had a legal settlement with them that they weren't even allowed to contact the patients directly. It was literally just a cash grab.