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I had surgery last year. There was a steady stream of bills, some duplicates, some not, and I had no idea how much I needed to pay (to say nothing about what th
by bachmeier 12y ago
I had surgery last year. There was a steady stream of bills, some duplicates, some not, and I had no idea how much I needed to pay (to say nothing about what the charges were for). My wife went to the hospital to clear things up and they couldn't even tell her how much they wanted me to pay - and this was months after the surgery. Finally, after a couple weeks had passed, they decided what I was supposed to pay. Good chance someone just wrote down a number.
- fluidcruft 12y agoMy feeling is that the experience could be improved dramatically right now if instead of ever directly paying providers, we instead always paid the delta to the insurance company. My experience with provider billing offices is that they actively weasel and trick you into overpaying the negotiated rates and hope you don't go over the bill. And then they stall and "forget" to refund. Nothing ever makes sense until the explanation of benefits document is generated. In other words--if we're not going to do single-payer, then it should at least be single-payer-per-patient.
- pcurve 12y agoI guess insurance companies don't want be involved in the collection business. So much so that, my dental insurance company (Delta dental, funny enough) cuts me the reimbursement check. And I have to pay my dentist.
- fluidcruft 12y agoOf course they don't. Everyone wants to externalize the unpleasent parts of business.