• whofearsthenight@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This is part of the system, and spoilers, it’s still the fault of for-profit insurance. Why do doctors offices screw up? Because every insurance provider negotiates a different rate, what is covered, etc. This office is going to bill one provider $3,000 for an MRI, another provider $27, another one $2799, and another one nothing. And if you go an office over, it’s going to be a whole different set of numbers. And then repeat that for basically every procedure, visit type, etc.

    This is a decent part of the reason why Americans pay more than just about any other country for healthcare. We spend billions more per year on exclusively middle-men who are just there in the way of your doctor’s providing you care you need.

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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      1 year ago

      This is part of the system

      So it’s part of the system for the doctor’s office to not bill insurance for over 6 months? To bill the wrong insurance company repeatedly?

      Nothing I stated was insurances fault but instead negligent medical billing coders.