Is it any wonder our health care system is screwed up...

[SPKrazy]

I got a check for $150 "overpayment"
I got a bill for $200 for a CT scan (of which there is also no indication that they filed insurance on it? :wtf:
another one for $100 for injections in my epidural spaces (co pay)

So I'm trying to figure this out, do I cash the $150 and use it to pay for the other bills? (They are all from the same healthcare system) or do I call and ask them to reconfigure their obviously "right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing" accounting?

I'm thinking cash the check... pay for the injections and call about the CT scan.

It all seems bizarre to me. The only thing I can see is that while in the same system and same billing location, they were different providers.

Okay, probably not a real lounge topic other than I think billing in health care is screwed up everywhere I've been.

I've had them over charge, under charge, etc. routinely at different places.

Only when you question it does anything change.

:eyes:

healthcare reform under shrub

[qwertyMike]

1. Move to Canada

All of that woulda been FREE

[SPKrazy]

2. hey I've looked into that

even sent my resume once but nevah heard back and didn't follow up.

That was right after the Iraq war.

Now I have a son and living in Canada wouldn't be too practical to be able to see him regularly.

But, I hear ya.

[LaurenG]

3. Cash the check because they are going to take months to figure

out how to fix what they've done. I have sent back huge checks and have been asked for reimbursement on the ck that was never cashed. It was a nightmare. Cash it and pay the other bills if they ask for it back write them a check... It's easier in the long run.

I agree the industry is a mess. I think I said that about three times last night come to think of it. :)

[qwertyMike]

4. Industry?

It's your fuckin' health.
You live in the richest country in the world and they can't even keep you alive?
Jeez to even call it an Industry appalls me.
Mike (Canada)

[LaurenG]

5. Don't get your knickers in a bunch

it is a business it's called "health insurance". I agree it's disgusting.

[qwertyMike]

6. It's not a business

It's life or death for your tax-paying citizens

[LaurenG]

7. Insurance Companies (Corporations)

are industries. They suck the money from our wallets and give us as little as possible in return. Yes they do dictate life and death and yes they are an industry. Quit trying to make this something it isn't.

Now if you don't live in America and have to fight insurance companies for every bit of health care they promised then I suggest you pay closer attention before trying to make me the bad guy here.

Why not do some research on the way corporations run America and then look up the salaries for the CEO's of the major insurers.

I have been in health care since the 70's and insurance companies are an industry who give less and less while taking more and more.

If I am misunderstanding you then please clarify, but if you are arguing with me about the state of health care and the companies who dictate how and when we can have health care in this country, you are barking up the wrong tree.

America has industrialized its health care and corporations are dictating what is and isn't going to be covered, it's a nightmare for some and a sin of the gravest kind that so many can't even get the crumbs they do offer.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Health+insurance+industry-s11101