[tcb] Re: Denis' medical bills update.
- From: Julie <julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:42:38 -0600
Getting you fixed up was worth every penny and then some but not if you kill
some one and end up behind bars. I don't think you would enjoy time in the
slammer.
On Dec 8, 2010, at 1:23 PM, "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Today I learned that the reason I don’t owe 20% of $83K is that the insurance
> companies make deals with the hospitals that mark down the cost. So they say
> $83K and the insurance says “No, it is $49K” Then they trim things here and
> there, so I pay 20% of $30K. The hospital billing ladies have been really
> nice and they seem amazed by it all, even as they are explaining it. I don’t
> know who to kill.
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> Further strange. I was 6 days in ICU. The insurance company sent me a letter
> that said I was pre-approved for 4. I got billed for 5.
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> Do I have to kill them all?
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> Subject: [tcb] Re: Denis' medical bills update.
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> Similarly, when Sonja had surgery years ago, we got identical, SEPERATE bills
> from both doctors in the medical practice her surgeon practiced in. Never
> saw, met, or even knew who the other doctors was.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Hayes <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tue, Dec 7, 2010 4:29 pm
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Denis' medical bills update.
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> My wife just had surgery and I have whats considered good insurance and it
> still cost me $2800 out of pocket.
> Last year leading up to the time my father died his bill for the 8 months
> prior was 1.8 million. He had really good insurance and he didn't pay
> anything. There were doctors billing his insurance that we never saw come or
> go.
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> On 12/7/2010 4:10 PM, Denis Dodson wrote:
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> I thought that the $30,000+ total cost for falling off the deck was nuts,
> well today I actually spoke to the very nice hospital billing office lady who
> corrected me. The actual total bill before insurance was $83,362.67! That
> does not include the doctor’s, radiology, ambulance, emergency room or oxygen
> bills.
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> Shirley said this is what it cost to put me back on my feet for the next
> event, a deer?
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