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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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
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 $
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.
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.
I'm sure the price of the surgery was ridiculous as well
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.
It's not about it being up-front, it's about health being marketised. It's utterly immoral.
It's also "utterly immoral" to marketize food and shelter, but there's a very good reason we do it.
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