How to Avoid Getting Screwed -Healthcare Costs, Mole Removal

[old goat]

Forgive me if I read about this in this forum: Hospitals are running freestanding clinics that they call part of the hospital even though to patients that is not apparent. That allows the hospital to bill hospital rates for what are really outpatient procedures.

[Conundrum]

Forgive me if I read about this in this forum: Hospitals are running freestanding clinics that they call part of the hospital even though to patients that is not apparent. That allows the hospital to bill hospital rates for what are really outpatient procedures.

Don't know if it's been on this forum. Yes. Some are accrediting them as acute (inpatient/constant care) vs ambulatory (outpatient). Acute accreditation allows them to charge higher rates even though they could accredit either way and offer the same care. Gaming which part of the insurance contract reimbursements they fall under.

[sb]

Wart X

[bobz]

My experience is that asking "What am I paying, and what am I getting for that money" is enough to be considered a pain in the ass patient, and elicit eye rolls and "I don't knows" from medical staff.

The staff doesn't even know what you're going to be billed, and sometimes when they say they know they're wrong. My wife got an in-person assurance that her $xx copay was all an outpatient visit would cost, and then lo and behold, a much higher bill comes in the mail.

On the other hand, she went in to University of Utah hospital last year for something, and when she called up to wonder about the bill (thinking that it got shuffled away by someone at our house in CA), they said, "your California insurance wouldn't cover it so we just wrote it off, have a nice day". Go Utes!!

Fuck all that shit, I'm on Medicare now, which most of the country doesn't want for itself because socialism and death panels.

[phongkhamdkhoancau]

One derm quoted me $60 with insurance, and another quoted $150 cash for the same thing. Wild.