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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We hold doctors on such high pedestals in this country.  My best friend is chief surgeon, and the stories he tells about his docs are truly shocking.  He says it is extremely common to have to reprimand his docs who try to get info on their patients' insurance first to see if they'll get a good payment from them.  If they have something crappy like medicaid or some other terrible insurance, my friend says docs will initially diagnose a patient with something else that is very closely related to what they know the person has. That way they can avoid having to do surgery on the patient and pass the buck to someone else later who'll get stuck with the patient with crappy insurance.  My friend has to routinely make sure that when he is on duty that his docs treat everyone who comes in like they have the same exact insurance so these shenanigans don't go on, but the point here is that how often do things like this go on elsewhere where they don't have chiefs who do ethical jobs who look the other way.  How many scummy docs are out there looking to soak as much money as they can out of the system and refuse their services for someone who needs it if they know that the patient's insurance will pay lower rates. [/quote]
Doctors are scummy especially when it comes to money. I had a family member dying of pancreatic cancer and had been signed into hospice. She had been in the hospital for 3 weeks at this point. Once you’re signed into hospice the hospital medical treatment stops and you are just made comfortable until you die. She had great insurance and her bill was already topping 250k so everything was on the insurance company at this point. I watched a cavalcade of various doctors come in and start doing exams while she was waiting to be transported to the hospice facility. You better believe they billed for these services even though she had been placed under hospice care at that point and they had no right or reason to examine her. It was like they knew it would be guaranteed money. Disgusting. [/quote]
Yikes
I know one old lady who was given 5 operations during the last week of her life. She was really old
Her family estate had to pay the remainder of what was not covered, it came to a lot [/quote]

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