Quest Diagnostics says nearly 12M patients may have had data breached

Re:Quest Diagnostics says nearly 12M patients may have had d... by QuercusMax on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:57PM (#20089325)

I had a small lab bill for my daughter (right after she was born) sent to collections because the address they had on file was for a location my daughter had never lived at. My wife and I had moved 2 years prior, and somehow the lab used our old address which they got from ???.

Reason #283942 that our medical system is horrendously broken in the US.

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Re:Quest Diagnostics says nearly 12M patients may have had d... by asark on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:19AM (#20091850)

Three kids, pretty sure each one had something related to the birth or pregnancy care end up in collections. We could pay it all no problem and the things that went to collections were usually tiny, medical billing's just completely fucked up.

You get low-hundreds (not an exaggeration) different documents, handed to you and via mail over the course of a year (9ish months + a few after, ends up close to a year), some of which are bills and some of which look like bills but say "this is not a bill" (so... why'd you send it?) and some of which are from your insurance referencing other things and blah blah blah, then you get a few that are clearly a screwup and you call the provider and they're all "LOL no your insurance got it it's fine, ignore that bill" (!?!?! seriously, dafuq, how many people just pay it and do you give them their money back unless they ask?) and of course one of those pieces of paper is gonna slip through the cracks.

Insurances companies get a lot of shit, but the whole medical billing complex is rotten, top to bottom.

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Re:Quest Diagnostics says nearly 12M patients may have had d... by hurrdurr2 on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:07PM (#20091421)

Yet according to some politicians, we have the best healthcare system IN THE WORLD!

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