[tcb] Re: Denis' medical bills update.
- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 13:39:44 -0800 (PST)
One more comment Denis, then I will shut up about hospitals and health care.
One of my daughters was in a car wreck; hospital bill was about $40.000,
insurance approved amount was about $3,500, hospital had to write off the
approximate $36,000 difference. Poor slob who has no insurance, if he pays,
will have to pay the full $40,000. Told you before; 99 accountants can't
figure out what is going on with health care costs, billing, or anything else
to do with money and health care.
--- On Wed, 12/8/10, Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: Denis' medical bills update.
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 1:23 PM
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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