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To: Aliska
Prices are out of control all over in the medical field. By closely watching the bills for my wife's hospitalization for two days and callling them on the coublecharges and what not, I had over $1000 taken from our bill. And that was over 10 years ago.
52 posted on 03/28/2005 4:42:20 PM PST by SolomoninSouthDakota (Daschle is gone.)
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To: SolomoninSouthDakota
I had over $1000 taken from our bill.

Doesn't surprise me. You have to watch every bill carefully. I recently had a hard drive (ordered on the internet) put in my computer by a local shop and a lot of other stuff done. I called ahead and asked what the bill would be and when I went to pick it up and pay, they had added over $100. I asked why since they said on the phone (can't remember exact amount) and they said you had a hard drive put in. I said I brought in my own hard drive, and they deducted it. For all the stuff I had done, I might have paid without blinking, but what was done they didn't have to monitor constantly (transfer of date).

My sister and her husband had a lot of electrical work done, and my brother-in-law went over the bill and they tried to overcharge them $2000.

Back to the subject at hand. I heard this discussed on talk radio locally, and it was claimed that it is a common practice to overbill people with insurance to cover the non-paying patients. Add that to a lot of people aren't feeling all that well and may not look at their bills too carefully.

57 posted on 03/28/2005 4:52:13 PM PST by Aliska
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