Yesterday I began my journey with the dreaded hospital billing system, for lack of a better term. Last November I had a CDL physical and it is a standard for government employees to have the local government pay for this. Get your heart, eyes, gonads checked and pee in a cup to prove you are not on drugs. The agreement in the medical network is a $75 flat fee for this fifteen minute proceedure. Five months later I get this bill from the hospital...
Vision Screen......................35.00
Urinalysis............................21.00
Pre. Med. Eval....................154.00
Office Visit...........................65.00
County Dept. payment..........-75.00
Balance due on services.........200.00
The vision screen consists of standing twenty feet away and reading line 4 on a wall chart.
There is no insurance involved as the county just writes the check for each individual and moves on, or so it use to.
Monday after work I will be in the hospital payments office and plan to have some young lady in tears who probably has no idea of the contract with this medical network. Now this hospital has a reputation of double and triple billing. They also were on the local news about how they railroaded themselves into a big brand new hospital and can't fill a third of it.....so they build two more out buildings for dialysis treatments and the like that are as of right now way overpriced and way behind in the actual construction. No wonder a tablet of generic aspirin costs sixty dollars and you are automatically charge 800 bucks when admitted to this joint or step into Emergency.
Yeah, Monday is going to be fun and I have the whole weekend to build up a head of steam.
Have a nice day!
Vision Screen......................35.00
Urinalysis............................21.00
Pre. Med. Eval....................154.00
Office Visit...........................65.00
County Dept. payment..........-75.00
Balance due on services.........200.00
The vision screen consists of standing twenty feet away and reading line 4 on a wall chart.
There is no insurance involved as the county just writes the check for each individual and moves on, or so it use to.
Monday after work I will be in the hospital payments office and plan to have some young lady in tears who probably has no idea of the contract with this medical network. Now this hospital has a reputation of double and triple billing. They also were on the local news about how they railroaded themselves into a big brand new hospital and can't fill a third of it.....so they build two more out buildings for dialysis treatments and the like that are as of right now way overpriced and way behind in the actual construction. No wonder a tablet of generic aspirin costs sixty dollars and you are automatically charge 800 bucks when admitted to this joint or step into Emergency.
Yeah, Monday is going to be fun and I have the whole weekend to build up a head of steam.
Have a nice day!
