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Senior Policy Correspondent @voxdotcom. Running a year-long project on emergency room billing. Help out by sharing your bill!

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    1. Sarah Kliff‏Verified account @sarahkliff Jan 23

      The madness of American medical billing, in one woman’s tweets. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/23/16920768/medical-billing-prepay-surgery …pic.twitter.com/CaiCrdJ6pf

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    2. David Whelan‏ @WhelanHealth Jan 23
      Replying to @sarahkliff

      Kind of curious to see reactions to this one. Are you saying patients shouldn’t pay for elective surgery?

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      Sarah Kliff‏Verified account @sarahkliff Jan 23
      Replying to @WhelanHealth

      Not at all - but that billing them the entire bill deductible 18 hours before surgery (and suggesting they can't get the surgery without making a lump sum payment) seems like a bad system!

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        1. d@r6y‏ @DarbyKathleen Jan 23
          Replying to @sarahkliff @WhelanHealth

          And "elective" doesn't always mean unneeded. My dad had "elective" cancer treatment that saved his life. Insurance wouldn't cover it - it was new &more expensive than traditional chemo. Now it's the standard chemo treatment. Parents are 70 & still working cause it bankrupted them

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        2. Carol Davies Wigley‏ @pinkbassist Jan 23
          Replying to @sarahkliff @WhelanHealth

          Happened to us sitting in a specialists office one Jan for an appt.Told daughter couldn’t see dr. unless we pd annual deductible.NEVER happened before.Usually just deducted off the amt the ins co. would pay off the drs bill later & we were billed for the rest.Didn’t have the $

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        3. Carol Davies Wigley‏ @pinkbassist Jan 23
          Replying to @pinkbassist @sarahkliff @WhelanHealth

          Was told we would have to leave without appt after waiting over an hr already & doing all forms& travelling to NYC fr upstate.Was not my resp. to pay $.Finally got hold of person to pay. Ridiculous stressful situation.Child in pain, pre surgery.5th Ave surgeon.

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        1. Michael McAllister‏ @ThatMichaelM Jan 24
          Replying to @sarahkliff @WhelanHealth

          100% disagree. Why is it that we have a system which will spend an exorbitant amount of money on technology to more efficiently kill people, but we are hesitant to do what is necessary to provide a system which more efficiently heals them? We need #MedicareForAll, #SinglePayer.

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        1. Timber style‏ @robinhoodjr24 Jan 23
          Replying to @sarahkliff @WhelanHealth

          I'm sure the price of the surgery was ridiculous as well

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        2. Roman Zamishka‏ @zamishka Jan 23
          Replying to @sarahkliff @WhelanHealth

          Hospital billing office needs to review their workflows and improve practices. But it's not unreasonable, paying upfront is how 82.1% of the economy works. The remaining 17.9% is healthcare.

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        3. Darc Xoṣewîst ⍟‏ @darcgr Jan 24
          Replying to @zamishka @sarahkliff @WhelanHealth

          It's not about it being up-front, it's about health being marketised. It's utterly immoral.

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        4. Roman Zamishka‏ @zamishka Jan 24
          Replying to @darcgr @sarahkliff @WhelanHealth

          It's also "utterly immoral" to marketize food and shelter, but there's a very good reason we do it.

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