Posted on 09/21/2014 7:24:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Part of the inflated costs is the need for hospitals to get payment from those who can pay to cover illegal immigrants, as well as under-payments for Medicare and Medicaid.
And ... let me guess ... the solution is — Single Payer??
It’s time to sue the hospitals over medical bills!
I went with number three. It certainly paid for me to shop around.
We have a relative who became a physician about six years ago. He hated it. He would have to attend weekly billing revision classes to correct missed billing opportunities. Each patient record would be explained by a clerk to the physicians to inform them of their missed opportunities to charge for services to maximize billing. He said it was like being called to the principals office in grade school. These correction classes took one complete day each week. The amended records would generate tens of thousands of dollars each week for services not necessarily given, but could not be disputed in customary billing guidelines.
Bills from ambulance companies owned by mysterious multinationals are also approaching $10,000.
It’s called “cost shifting”. I suggest the author of this tripe look into it.
Because millions of illegals get of with out paying chit they show up in the ers all over the nation squat and drop citizen ship births 47
%of the population take take take no wonder its broken and Drs. today don;t make chit after all the regs insurance and such I have a few that have hung it up and said to hell with it and retired early
Some time ago, I drove my then teen daughter to the hospital ER. She had bust and infected appedicts. She stayed for several days and did have the surgury.
After seeing all the bills, I accused the hospital of performing the surgury at the Civic Auditorium. They thought I was crazy until I explained their hospital wasn’t big enough to hold all the people who sent me an invoice.
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I have heard that paying cash will often get the price cut down pretty substantially.
Think that’s bad? Over $200 for the fire department to send an ambulance and two guys to check for pulse, blood pressure and blood sugar and advise that the person needed to see a doctor.
Which is going to be against the law. Hillarycare specifically proposed making it illegal for physicians to accept fee for service patients, calling for prosecution of such physicians.
I expect Obamacare to go down the same path.
I’d be more sympathetic to the viewpoint if it was also applied to the billing performed by our institutions of higher learning.
I think Lurker is referring to the often neglected fact that the costs incurred in treating underinsured individuals, including Medicare, are shifted to corporate and private insurers.
How about over 50K for a few cortisone shots?
I called the state medical board.
These shots weren’t even done in a hospital.
when your mission is to save lives, nothing is spared...
lately I notice the docs cutting down on the number of labs they order, to save on costs I think....
we try to discharge people in a quick orderly fashion so they don't run up big bills....
HAVING SAID ALL THAT, my lap choli cost the insurance company $12,000 and there were also costs associated with the dr, and his associates, meds, etc....
I went in at 8am as told, waited til nearly 1130, collecting charges I assume all along, and was out by 5....$12,000!!!!
Exactly. Hospital emergency rooms must treat people who cannot and will not pay.
you can't blame them....most hospital patients are medicare or medicaid, and that is a big loser for hospitals...
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