I Went To The Accts Payable Dept Of The Hospital Yesterday To Pay My Mom's Bill's And Found This....

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. True.

All docs associated with our hospital are acually owners/employers of their own practice elsewhere.
ALL of them.
Even the ER docs
and the ambulance service.
Even the docs who come to see you in the hospital bed.

I had to get mammograms/sonograms for a suspicious lump, in July.
My local GP had to call the next door hospital to arrange for the tests,
the x-ray/sonogram person is local, at the hospital,
the hospital had to schedule the reading of the tests with the radiology service who sends 2 docs to the hospital from a town 100 miles away.

So I got 3 bills.
One from my GP I had to see for the lump.
one from the Radiology practice in the other town for reading the test results ( 2 doctors read the tests)
one from the hospital for the techs and the machines.

Thankfully I had just gotten on Medicare B.
Only 140.00 of the charges were mine to pay.
BUT
they all sent me their bills and I had NO idea of which bills Medicare was going to pay and which they were going to charge me with to reach my 140.00 deductible
because Medicare sends patients the bills 90 days after the service is provided.
Fortunately, you can call Medicare and they will send you the information sooner if you ask.