Comments on: Cut Your Doctor Bill

By: gman

gman — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:46:44 +0000

A doctor can bill anything after the fact and will. They have no regulation on what they can bill after the fact. They can bill 100,000 for a bandaid. Everyone is afraid of the medical association because they control the economy. Doctors and hospitals get rich while everyone else suffers.

By: jason

jason — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:58:54 +0000

I am sorry to hear about your husband’s problems. I want to make it clear that people are being over charged regardless of their insurance availability. Healthcare organizations have contracts set up with providers to pay certain reduced prices for services rendered but regardless of the situation, they are extremely overpriced. The sad fact is that uninsured patients will pay the full price of the service versus the insurance approved allowed price and in my opinion that is criminal on some level. I am a healthcare worker and I know damn well how the system works and I am ashamed of the lack of integrity and ethics of the healthcare system in general. Just because you CAN charge a patient for something doesn’t mean you SHOULD!

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:25:59 +0000

What about the uninsured? I have been ranting and raving for about a month now about how hospitals can inflate their charges to the uninsured from 100-600%. Shame on them.

And this is a Catholic hospital that is supposed to be charitable. My husband recently had to go to the Er for a life threating accident. Less than 24 hours on a ventilator and 2 1/2 days in the hospital. Total cost $27,000.00 And I also know that they ran tests that they didn’t need to, and also ran tests more often than they needed to.

I am tired of any thing having to do with health care. In fact, I am to the point that I do not want to go to doctors, get my medications and maintain my health.
Why, because we just can’t afford it. Doctors who charge my husband $300 because he is uninsured for a 5 min to 1/2 hour visit is outrageous!

I say shame on all..insurance companies, doctors, hospitals. and other service providers.

Bitter and angry.

By: NC Healthcare

NC Healthcare — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:33:38 +0000

Additionallv, insurance companies always haggle over your bill, so the health service providers automatically set a higher price for services expecting to cut the bill.