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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Maryland and am on Hopkins' side on this one after seeing the reimbursements paid to my super-cardiologist--actually an electrophysiologist--for a cardiac ablation.

Carefirst reduced his bill by more than two-thirds, paying $113 out of $700 for his medical services and $16 out of $200 for his x-ay services (required for this procedure).

That's just ridiculous.  I would never defend Hopkins as a paragon of moral virtue--it's a Byzantine bureaucracy with sometimes sketchy motives--but declining to pay reasonable rates to the doctors is insulting to them and dangerous to people like me who need them.

I'm wondering if people even pay attention to the rates insurers are paying doctors and hospitals.  Maybe that's what the insurers are relying on, hoping we'll blame the greedy medical establishment rather than them.

If you belong to Carefirst, read your EOBs. You might be surprised.

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I mean even if he spent 30 minutes with you, his hourly rate is 226. Was there a separate facility bill because that normally covers the hospital, their employees, and equipment and specific to Hopkins (and many other Bmore hospitals) is billed separately so it isnt awful. The xray reimbursement is pretty bad but again it takes 30 min tops for an xray appt. [/quote]

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