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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m amazed at the number of people who think health insurance is the main problem, as if the hospitals just honest businessmen submitting bills for their services and the docs as well. The whole system is a sh&t show. Cardiologist in the US make like a half a million, in the Uk it’s like £150K.

People should be mad at their legislators for allowing it to get this way. This is not to say that insurers don’t have their problems but they are but one cog in the wheel of grift and dysfunction. [/quote]

Cardiologists actually provide an extremely valuable service.  Insurance companies suck money out of the system.  Do you really not see the difference?[/quote]

Do you want to negotiate prices with all of your doctors on your own?[/quote]

Yes, actually.  I’d also like to know the cost of a procedure or visit up front, thanks.[/quote]

To add, I'd also like to know how many billable personnel (doctors and all) I am expected to receive invoices from, I hate the trickling in from outside providers.  So shady.[/quote]

agree

i especially loathe the Urgimeds who codify themselves as Specialists to double their copays and their charges. Health insurance does nothing.

One recently coded itself at time of billing as an ER.

such BS. And they are in BCBS as an in net work urgent care. such BS. BCBS lets them charge that, pays their share and then we are supposed to pay along and pay 2x or 3x!?[/quote]

Let’s not forget the extra facility fees. My insurance gives me one annual mammogram that they claim to cover 100%. I looked on my insurance website and selected one of the providers. The mammogram was free but then I received a $600 facility charge. I fought with them for months before I finally got it paid. [/quote]

That’s now prohibited by the No Surprises Act.  (Guessing you had it done at a hospital not a doctors office?  The provider also should have warned you.)[/quote]

I went to a facility labeled a “hospital,” but it’s not really a hospital with patients in beds.

I called several times to ensure I would not be charged a fee and they didn’t want to commit to an answer.

DP[/quote]

Learned recently that the lab tests I do at my PCP get billed to insurance as having been done at a hospital more than an hour away. The specimens are sent off site, but not to that hospital. The revenue cycle team apparently figured out some loophole to maximize their reimbursement. Apparently it’s not exactly fraudulent, but it is sketchy af, and it costs me more money. [/quote]

That sucks, and I’m sorry it costs you more.

The hospitals (and some doctors) rip off health insurance companies but it’s us they treat as suspicious…

I called about my doctor charging for doctor visits when I was just going for an allergy shot. The doctor’s husband was very angry when I brought it up and the health insurance company could not have cared less as long as it wasn’t a patient ripping them off.

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