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re: Surprise Dr.'s bill (They got me)
Posted on 3/7/25 at 9:51 am to MardiGrasCajun
Posted on 3/7/25 at 9:51 am to MardiGrasCajun
almost as classy as the health insurance billing industry
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Posted on 3/7/25 at 9:58 am to Jake88
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My insurance (BCBS) stopped covering same day bloodwork last year
you mean, same day as the Dr. visit? is that why they tell me to go some day in the near future at my leisure?
or something else?
Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:07 am to Jmcc64
Yeah. I have bcbs and walk from my doctor's office next door to get labs drawn right then.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:10 am to Jake88
sometimes they'll do it in office right then and other times they'll give me orders and let me go wherever, whenever.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:15 am to Ingeniero
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Stuff like this is why I don't feel quite so bad about that Luigi dude popping some CEOs
Luigi missed the real culprit,,,,
Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:20 am to TimeOutdoors
I once got a bill for emergency air lift from BR to Houston b/c I was hit by a car walking across airline hwy.
my insurance company paid like $10k and I owed another $4k.
I was not hit by a car. I would never walk across airline hwy. i obviously was not air lifted to Houston. Yet I had to deal with dipshits harrassing me about paying this despite me telling them that wasn't me. Somehow my bloodwork I had done recently was mixed up with this persons somehow and that somehow got the insurance's mixed up, i dont remember how it all happened, but for whatever reason they were billing me for something i never did.
Medical billing is a huge problem in this country. It's routinely done incorrectly. I just quit paying medical bills when i get them now, especially those stupid ones that say "this is not a bill" yet still has "you owe x amount". Most of the time they correct themselves and i owe nothing. If i really owe something, then we can talk about it the next time I come in and i've got no problem paying for it if it's legit. 99% of the time it's not.
and nothing irritates me more then when a doctor says "let's try this", or "take this" and a month later you get a bill for $500 for whatever it was. Maybe had you told me it was goign to be $500, i would not have agreed to do it.
It's asanine what they charge for simple things. $8 for an over the counter tylenol tablet. They wanted to charge us over $1000 for a kids wheel chair. Sent us to this place that works with your insurance to get the wheelchair. I literally bought the same exact wheelchair off Amazon for under $300. How in the frick is that possible?
Routine visit when your sick and get a coritsone shot, no extra charge outside of your copay.
Routine visit to a specialty doctor and they give you the same cortisone shot for carpal tunnel, bill comes a month later $300 for the shot, but they don't tell you that before giving it to you.
my insurance company paid like $10k and I owed another $4k.
I was not hit by a car. I would never walk across airline hwy. i obviously was not air lifted to Houston. Yet I had to deal with dipshits harrassing me about paying this despite me telling them that wasn't me. Somehow my bloodwork I had done recently was mixed up with this persons somehow and that somehow got the insurance's mixed up, i dont remember how it all happened, but for whatever reason they were billing me for something i never did.
Medical billing is a huge problem in this country. It's routinely done incorrectly. I just quit paying medical bills when i get them now, especially those stupid ones that say "this is not a bill" yet still has "you owe x amount". Most of the time they correct themselves and i owe nothing. If i really owe something, then we can talk about it the next time I come in and i've got no problem paying for it if it's legit. 99% of the time it's not.
and nothing irritates me more then when a doctor says "let's try this", or "take this" and a month later you get a bill for $500 for whatever it was. Maybe had you told me it was goign to be $500, i would not have agreed to do it.
It's asanine what they charge for simple things. $8 for an over the counter tylenol tablet. They wanted to charge us over $1000 for a kids wheel chair. Sent us to this place that works with your insurance to get the wheelchair. I literally bought the same exact wheelchair off Amazon for under $300. How in the frick is that possible?
Routine visit when your sick and get a coritsone shot, no extra charge outside of your copay.
Routine visit to a specialty doctor and they give you the same cortisone shot for carpal tunnel, bill comes a month later $300 for the shot, but they don't tell you that before giving it to you.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:48 am to sigsauer
You probably made a complaint like your toe hurt or cough. It won’t be covered
Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:56 am to forkedintheroad
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Throw those bills straight into the trash. If you never plan to use the lab again, they will not bother trying to collect after a try or two
Can't hit credit anymore for med bills.
Why pay?
After surgery, I got a hospital bill when all my deductible was met. I asked if they were in network, and they are.
I told supervisor they were paid network charges and I needed written statement telling me why I should pay over network payment.
So far...crickets
Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:23 pm to TeddyPadillac
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They wanted to charge us over $1000 for a kids wheel chair. Sent us to this place that works with your insurance to get the wheelchair. I literally bought the same exact wheelchair off Amazon for under $300. How i
It's possible because half our economy is basically driven by multiple layers of middle men called distributors. They don't produce anything and don't sell retail. They have simply positioned themselves to load it off one truck, put it on another truck, and deliver to another distributor. By the time it gets to the retailer it has a 3-400% markup so the retailer can make a 10-15% profit after expenses. If you could buy a car directly, they'd be 2/3s the cost.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 9:16 pm to BluegrassBelle
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So if that bloodwork wasn't scheduled until you saw the doctor and you went ahead and did it the same day, they might use that as a loophole for payment (just an FYI). My insurance (BCBS) stopped covering same day bloodwork last year
What’s the point of covering scheduled bloodwork but not same day?
Seems same day means “oh something doesn’t look right, we need to do bloodwork pronto” while scheduled is a patients choice to do a routine checkup when nothing may be wrong.
IMO same day should be covered before scheduled, as it’s more likely to be an unexpected emergency which is the whole point of having fricking insurance, to cover unexpected medical expenses
Posted on 3/7/25 at 9:26 pm to TeddyPadillac
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I once got a bill for emergency air lift from BR to Houston b/c I was hit by a car walking across airline hwy. my insurance company paid like $10k and I owed another $4k.
I know it wasn’t your bill, but that’s not bad. shite most would bill $20k to be airlifted from Airline to OLOL.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 9:50 pm to 0x15E
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It’s not their job to explain your medical plan to you
I feel for OP, but I've paid attention to shite like this since my 20s (pre Obamacare). This is what happens when people pretend like it's not your money, it's someone else's. No care, figure it out later. And now OP has figured it out.
To all you DV idiots for 0x15E, if you got a notice that your PC had transitioned from Oschner to OLOL, would any of you even read that, or go to your BCBS website to check their status? No. Lazy rules the day, and it's not "your" money, until it is.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:02 pm to Clyde Tipton
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They inform me that they changed networks when they moved, and I'm on the hook for the bill as the lab I was sent to was for my "convenience" and that I could have gone to any lab in my network if I didn't want a bill.
Was the bill from the doctors office or the lab? A lot of times they are completely separate companies
Was it a small hole in the wall local lab or a place like Labcorp?
If the doctors office pushes hard enough the lab can (should) reduce the bill pretty substantially
Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:38 pm to Jerrysworld
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almost as classy as the health insurance billing industr
Do you have any idea medical billing and insurance payments work?
It sounds like you do not
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