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[quote=Anonymous]Have Medicare Part A and B with  BCBS as supplemental.

Surgery  Bill including  the entire surgical center bill: 21, 000  (a rotator cuff repair)
Medicare paid: 1,317
BCBS paid: 200.00  ( Federal FEP Blue)

What? 
And no,  we are not being billed for the rest. But- what on earth  is this amount  for a $21,000 surgery?
How do practices stay in business?

Looking through all the EOBs this year, our first  year in Medicare- largely  the same. One of my specialists is actually paid abouf 100.00 for a 400.00 bill and the list  goes on. Some regular GP visits  for both of us are just not even paid at all, or still  pending for a year, or about  20 bucks here and there. 
(The oncologist for my dog is paid  more than this- and frankly I'm  not complaining,  he is great.)

But, what don’t  I understand  as a novice Medicare subscriber? Maybe  we should  have not ever signed up with Medicare and just kept the  BC insurance.

I have asked a similar question  here before,  but it did not  really answer this scenario, this is a new claim. [/quote]

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