U.S. health care's widespread overbilling problem

Re:U.S. health care's widespread overbilling problem by alistairSH on Monday July 10, 2017 @04:15PM (#14739254)

The average person I know has employer-provided insurance and doesn't think a bit about the costs of procedures.

While that has been true for decades, in my experience, those employer-provided plans are beginning to transfer some of the cost to the consumer through higher deductibles and copays.

My last few visits to the doctor tend to support this, as in both cases, the doctor offered cost-saving options and advice.

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Re:U.S. health care's widespread overbilling problem by SilasX on Monday July 10, 2017 @07:30PM (#14740506)

Yep. And employer plans don't avoid the random bill in the mail from "lol you still have to pay the balance because we decided not to cover all of that even though you never had a chance to know the max downside".

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Re:U.S. health care's widespread overbilling problem by taurath on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:08AM (#14742385)

And if you have major surgery even on a "platinum" level plan you are still on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars. Fuck the system, its calcified nonsense at every step.

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