hydrophobia's not so bad, considering...
Oct. 6th, 2005 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saoneFor once I'm not having a problem with the insurance company, I'm having a problem with the hospital. I got a letter from them the other day saying they had already billed my insurance but that I still owed them almost six hundred dollars for the first round of rabies shots.
Six hundred dollars.
The first round.
Oh, hell no.
I called my insurance company first and the woman I spoke with was just as outraged as I was. Heh.
Then called the collections department for the hospital and wasted almost half an hour of my life trying to explain in-network benefits to the moron on the other end of the line. Turns out the first round of shots, just the first round, cost $1400. Now, since the whole series of shots just cost around $700, that means the hospital more than doubled the price just for the pleasure of sticking it in. If I didn't have health insurance I would have been well and truly screwed.
In hindsight, what I really find most disgusting is the one doctor who tried so hard to get me to come back to the hospital for the rest of the shots (four more treatments), telling me that Patient First is a horrible place, and my insurance probably woudln't recognize them, and it was all about politics there. Huh, I didn't know doctors worked on commission.
Six hundred dollars.
The first round.
Oh, hell no.
I called my insurance company first and the woman I spoke with was just as outraged as I was. Heh.
Then called the collections department for the hospital and wasted almost half an hour of my life trying to explain in-network benefits to the moron on the other end of the line. Turns out the first round of shots, just the first round, cost $1400. Now, since the whole series of shots just cost around $700, that means the hospital more than doubled the price just for the pleasure of sticking it in. If I didn't have health insurance I would have been well and truly screwed.
In hindsight, what I really find most disgusting is the one doctor who tried so hard to get me to come back to the hospital for the rest of the shots (four more treatments), telling me that Patient First is a horrible place, and my insurance probably woudln't recognize them, and it was all about politics there. Huh, I didn't know doctors worked on commission.
