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Are hospitals now trying to make patients pay their deductible before medical procedures are performed?

I was scheduled for an outpatient procedure at a local Inova hospital and got a call from someone in "financial services" who tried to get me to pay what she thought my deductible would be before I had the procedure. Is this a thing now? I actually had met my deductible well before this procedure and she was incorrectly assuming my deductible would be over 1k. The person tried to get me to pay half of it days before my procedure and agree to a payment plan. What happened to having the procedure and the hospital submitting everything to insurance and then being billed? If I had fallen for this, I would have given them money I don't owe them.  It also bothered me that when I checked in for my procedure, the person who checked me in wanted to discuss "the problem I had with paying my deductible". This has already happened to me with a dentist who pulled the same thing and it took them months to refund my money. 
WTH?  [/quote]

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