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so got a medical bill unexpectedly 6 months later
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so got a medical bill unexpectedly 6 months later


Jun 22, 2020, 9:07 PM

had to go to emergency room in Dec, but they didnt have a particular specialist at the hospital so they told me to go to another hospital. But wouldnt allow my wife to drive me and made me take an ambulance 10 miles.

$3400 freakin bucks for something they made me do. Can i get out of this?

any hospital scam experts out there?

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I was in the hospital at the end of January. I got one bill


Jun 22, 2020, 9:18 PM

two weeks ago from the nurse anesthetist, and another one from attending ER doc a week or two before that. It seems it may never end, and I don't understand why it takes so long to be billed. You think you're all done, but nope.

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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
- H. L. Mencken


And people wonder why there is enthusiasm for universal


Jun 22, 2020, 9:20 PM

healthcare.

Our medical billing system is incompetent.

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I’m guessing x may have been on the hook for


Jun 22, 2020, 11:43 PM

A grand or less before the ACA skyjacked everyones’ deductibles.

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Re: so got a medical bill unexpectedly 6 months later


Jun 22, 2020, 10:19 PM

you can probably negotiate that down, your ins company can probably help

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Call the billing dept. be polite.


Jun 22, 2020, 11:46 PM

Ask them what the discount is for paying it all at once (if you can). Don’t ask them if they have a discount, use the assumptive close and ask the. How much it is.

I’ve seen as much as 40-50% knocked off with this tactic. The hospital is ok doing it because they don’t have you on a payment plan that they may or may not collect, and the billing rep looks good on their monthly stats for quickly getting a bill to zero balance with little effort.

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That might work.


Jun 23, 2020, 7:41 AM

But it won't get guaranteed results. If you want guaranteed results, I suggest an armed hostage situation that involves massive media coverage to get this issue out in front of the public and creating leverage for the ask.

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ATTICA!!!!! ATTICA!!!!


Jun 23, 2020, 7:45 AM



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If he needed an unarmed hostage, maybe Obed would let him


Jun 23, 2020, 7:46 AM [ in reply to That might work. ]

roll him out with the hand trucks.

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Start with Obed version


Jun 23, 2020, 7:46 AM [ in reply to Call the billing dept. be polite. ]

If they refuse to negotiate, ask them to send your debt to collections because they 100% will negotiate! At least 50% off.

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