[tcb] Re: Denis' medical bills update.

  • From: John Barry <bigfoot51102@xxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:50:58 -0600

Short answer... Kill 'em all!! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:23 PM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: Denis' medical bills update.

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.
 
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.
 
Do I have to kill them all?
 
 
 
 
 
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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:33 AM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: Denis' medical bills update.
 
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.
 
-----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.

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.



On 12/7/2010 4:10 PM, Denis Dodson wrote: 
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.
 
Shirley said this is what it cost to put me back on my feet for the next event, 
a deer?
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