Unfortunately this is another example of how poor people get screwed

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Oct 7, 2017
1:14:21pm

Josef K All-American

Some blue collar guy with a low paying job would have no clue a simple phone call might change his life.

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Josef K

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I know consumers will lose the war with healthcare, but it’s nice to win a

maxpowers

10/7/17 1:09pm

Unfortunately this is another example of how poor people get screwed

Josef K

10/7/17 1:14pm

I think that is an unfair generalization.

shatter2

10/7/17 1:24pm

What about his blue collar job prevents him from calling his insurance company

Junior Deputy

10/7/17 1:28pm

I had no idea you could call and get things changed.

MakingofaMom

10/7/17 1:33pm

Great outcome, but that's not insurance fraud?

chilango

10/7/17 1:15pm

I was thinking it was insurance fraud.

PharmD

10/7/17 1:20pm

glad things worked out for you. Insurance companies are crooks and scam artists

jes2332

10/7/17 1:22pm

Not fraud if she has another legitimate concern. Which I'm sure the paperwork

Idahofallsblue

10/7/17 1:24pm

Sounds like the concern was fertility, no?

chilango

10/7/17 1:25pm

There was a note the doctor left that allowed them to use a different code

maxpowers

10/7/17 1:32pm

If it is, all I did was ask the clinic if there was something they could do

maxpowers

10/7/17 1:33pm

Important safety tip. It's usually something in the coding that was wrong or

OldCosmo

10/7/17 1:18pm

And the funny part? Ultrasound is usually a small percentage of that.

Idahofallsblue

10/7/17 1:22pm

BCBS TX usually gets about 75-80% knocked off the billed amount.

CougarThug

10/7/17 1:48pm

Hmm... that means the hospital is running a 4x or 5x Medicare charge master

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