The hospital will "bill" him for, oh, I'll guess around 150,000 dollars, depending on just how many surgeries he has. That guess is for 2-3 surgeries, and goes up from there.
The actual cost of his treatment will be around 20,000 dollars.
The difference in cost will be the hospital trying to recoup all the money it loses on other people who also don't pay.
But what this means is that when someone WITH money and insurance comes in, the hospital will try to squeeze THEM out of 5-6x the actual cost of treatment to recoup the losses elsewhere.
It's another situation that does need actual reform and attention. GEOTUS has started it with transparency, but the Left is so far off message and so far out of reality it doesn't matter and nothing productive happens.
Just had a kid and this was exactly the case. It is completely out of control.
Try to do the right thing? FUCK YOU in every aspect of your life.
I'm tired of it.
The insurance I work for uses a % of medicare allowable to reprice medical service lines... you would be shocked at what bullshit hospitals do.
I think 150% of medicare allowable for a CT scan is something around $700 depending on the state.
Hospitals routinely charge non medicare patients between $7000 and $16000 for a CT. Insurance negotiates that down by pressuring the hospitals legally (when there isn't a contracted rate, and there usually isn't if we're not talking about the BIG BIG household name insurance companies).
But that's retarded billing rate, and I see it all day every day.
Hospitals, in my experience, are the bad guys. Yes, there are big insurance companies that get contractual price breaks, but even then hospitals will try to bill patients for extra and hope they don't fight it.
I don't begrudge hospitals trying to cover expenses they can't recoup from illegals and criminals. I'd blame the government for forcing the hospitals to treat those wastes of humanity and losing millions in the process
Another unpaid hospital bill
And more complex than that.
The hospital will "bill" him for, oh, I'll guess around 150,000 dollars, depending on just how many surgeries he has. That guess is for 2-3 surgeries, and goes up from there.
The actual cost of his treatment will be around 20,000 dollars.
The difference in cost will be the hospital trying to recoup all the money it loses on other people who also don't pay.
But what this means is that when someone WITH money and insurance comes in, the hospital will try to squeeze THEM out of 5-6x the actual cost of treatment to recoup the losses elsewhere.
It's another situation that does need actual reform and attention. GEOTUS has started it with transparency, but the Left is so far off message and so far out of reality it doesn't matter and nothing productive happens.
We should not be paying for someone else's hospital visits. I only want to pay for MY visits, which are thankfully zero.
I agree with you. I just work in Insurance, so I know a little bit more than the average layman.
But then who would pay for all the hospital deliveries of anchor babies of foreign-national welfare migrants?
Next time you go to the hospital just give them a fake name and social. You don't have to give them information. It's how illegals get free care
It's ok. Some lefties will pay for it and buy him a house etc etc
Just had a kid and this was exactly the case. It is completely out of control. Try to do the right thing? FUCK YOU in every aspect of your life. I'm tired of it.
The insurance I work for uses a % of medicare allowable to reprice medical service lines... you would be shocked at what bullshit hospitals do.
I think 150% of medicare allowable for a CT scan is something around $700 depending on the state.
Hospitals routinely charge non medicare patients between $7000 and $16000 for a CT. Insurance negotiates that down by pressuring the hospitals legally (when there isn't a contracted rate, and there usually isn't if we're not talking about the BIG BIG household name insurance companies).
But that's retarded billing rate, and I see it all day every day.
Hospitals, in my experience, are the bad guys. Yes, there are big insurance companies that get contractual price breaks, but even then hospitals will try to bill patients for extra and hope they don't fight it.
I don't begrudge hospitals trying to cover expenses they can't recoup from illegals and criminals. I'd blame the government for forcing the hospitals to treat those wastes of humanity and losing millions in the process