Re:The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills
by amalcon on Monday July 24, 2017 @07:10PM
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Also, don't forget that you'll frequently need to deal with multiple bills, each potentially requiring separate work to resolve.
If you take an ambulance to the emergency department, see a doctor, they order a scan, the scan shows appendicitis, and your appendix is subsequently removed, this can easily lead to six different bills:
- Ambulance
- Facility
- ED doctor
- Radiologist
- Surgeon
- Anesthesiologist
And that's assuming that the ED and hospital are under the same company (not always), and that no off-site labs are used. You may not have ever heard of the radiologist or anesthesiologist. I once had bill collectors calling me re: a radiologist I'd never heard of, who managed to ruin my credit for a good six months until I figured out what the bill was actually for.
If you take an ambulance to the emergency department, see a doctor, they order a scan, the scan shows appendicitis, and your appendix is subsequently removed, this can easily lead to six different bills:
And that's assuming that the ED and hospital are under the same company (not always), and that no off-site labs are used. You may not have ever heard of the radiologist or anesthesiologist. I once had bill collectors calling me re: a radiologist I'd never heard of, who managed to ruin my credit for a good six months until I figured out what the bill was actually for.