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
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
True. Again, a system with flaws. Same with police overreach.
But I'm not going to advocate for "burning the system down" over it. The Left has gone far far far far far too far in both of these issues.