[qaz123]

Say it ain't so!!!

I'd love to see Jim Dungee's voting record.

[Digger]

Next appointment they will find out that he & a few million in the Boston area are missing a chromosome.

[seton89]

Perhaps he would prefer the clinician leave the polyps in place.

[Tennessee Nana]

Paging Dr Romney

[longtermmemmory]

so prevention is only prevention if it is a negative result?

that is unconscionable.

ANY insurance program that does that should be sued for wrongful denial.

it smacks of sleazy car repair services.

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[Sudetenland]

Yeah really, straight line Democrat socialist liberal no doubt.

Hey, Jim, welcome to the party, PAL!

[Cicero]

That distinction left Jim on the hook for all kinds of co-payments and deductibles. He got one bill for $388 dollars and another for $64.

Seems pretty reasonable to me. What is the total cost to go into a hospital, use the operating room, have an anesthesiologist, a surgeon, and probably a couple of nurses? I would guess thousands of dollars in a place like Boston. So he's being asked to pick up maybe 10 or 20 percent? Sounds like a deal to me.

[Hot Tabasco]

That distinction left Jim on the hook for all kinds of co-payments and deductibles. He got one bill for $388 dollars and another for $64. “While you’re under anesthesia, they are actually changing the way you are going to be billed,” he said.

$452 to remove potentially cancerous polyps while undergoing a colonoscopy?

They should have immediately awoken him while the hose was still up his ass then have him wait the 2 to 4 hours until the anesthesia wore off then ask him if he wanted them removed.......Wonder what his answer would have been then?

Funny how people are so damn willing to have their medical conditions taken care of immediately then piss and moan when they get the bills........

[Chode]

i believe it's all spelled out in his insurance policy, at least it is in mine...(BlueCross/BlueShield)

that's why i told the doc NO polyp removal during the screening procedure when i had mine done

i think most carriers have the same view of screening vs diagnostic procedures

it really does pay to read the policy

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Gee, it seem Jim may be a perfect Masshole, but he doesn’t have a perfect @$$hole.

[Venturer]

You man Romneycare doesn’t cover removal of polyps?

[heartwood]

On the one hand, around $450 for the patient’s share of a colonoscopy with sedation and polyp removal does not seem outrageous.

OTOH the insurance company is making pettifogging distinctions between “preventative” and “diagnostic” and not warning the patient what will happen if polyps are found. It would scarcely be a “preventative” colonoscopy if the polyps were not removed. And the whole point of taking a look at someone’s colon in the first place is to “diagnose” if cancerous or pre-cancerous conditions are present. A colonoscopy in itself has no “preventative” value.

[Jack Hammer]

RomneyCare - soon appearing in a town near you (name slightly altered to ObamaCare).

[bert]

His diagnostic procedure became surgery. Had he read what he was given and signed he would have known he authorized the removal of the polyps which is a surgery.

The alternative was to have the procedure and not authorize removal of the polyps. That would have been dumb because he would want them excised and have to go through all he horrendous prep again

He was not screwed, he was perhaps saved from colon cancer