I suspect that's how ‘the poor’ are charged for a case of the sniffles when they go to an emergency room in lieu of a private doctor.
Then hospitals take it off their taxes meaning the taxpayer gets hit more than once.
ObamaCare incentives MUST be changed... Rumor is that OUR GOVERNMENT pays insurance companies $100,000 a year PER PERSON for those on Advantage Plans... then they nickel and dime the folks on the plans.
Trump and Ryan need to look into all this stuff before they start to 'change' the disaster known as ObamaCare...
The jury is still out for me on this Cigna Medicare supplement.
I can tell you that all my medical people, be it my general practitioner, the cardiovascular guy, the local medical clinic, the local hospital....they all complain about CIGNA.
Funny thing is, the stuff they complain about always make sense.
“Cigna turned down this payment because we did it a month ago,” one frustrated medical secretary told me.
Heh. Well should Cigna pay you for a procedure, good for five years as I am to understand, again when you just did the test?
Sometimes I get medical techno-babble....like “Cigna won’t let us do this fluoroscopy cause we did a photosynthesis two weeks ago.”
Heh.
This is why you are not supposed to pay but what Cigna tells you to pay. Oh yeah, you can pay more, the medicos would surely take it.
For the most part Cigna has responded very well to my questions and hey, they are waaaaaay better than Medicare.
I’ve dealt with Medicare when my now deceased husband had a brain infection. I’ve dealt plenty with private insurances and don’t forget my employment history as a quasi-human resource guy in various companies.
I understand about health insurance, yes I do. And I sure understand medical bills.
This is my first year with Cigna and I did not change back. I got worried when the medicos were all complaining about Cigna but heh, first, they accept Cigna. If it were so bad why don’t they not accept? Believe me I checked that my medical people were covered by Cigna....”if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.”
Second, none of these complaints seems bad to me. By me, a fairly up-to-date individual on these sorts of things, it’s sound like the medical people messed it up.
It’s my story and I’m sticking to it.