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lovuian

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15. Finally LAB Work is the biggest scam out there
Mon Apr 2, 2012, 02:32 PM
Apr 2012

people there are labs which will draw your blood without a Doctors order and the price of the lab work is much much cheaper

a friend of mine was charged 469 dollar for routine checkup lab work ...if she would have had it drawn her self it would have been 103 dollars.....the insurance wanted her to pay the whole 469 dollars ... but when she challenged on it they said she only owed 119 dollars

so you see the scam ....who was getting 369 dollars

oh and she would have paid 103 dollars if she would have paid cash herself which she paid 119 dollars

so do you get it
the Insurance don't pay ANYTHING the idea is to jack up the prices so high that 80% coverage is that you pay for it
yourself and the insurance don't pay anything

insurance doctors and labs .... are screwing people for Billions!!!

and people are figuring it out

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Not to worry... Fumesucker Apr 2012 #1
+1 on that.... anti-alec Apr 2012 #4
Um, why do you think this is becoming public? cbdo2007 Apr 2012 #5
It was in someone's interests to expose it? Fumesucker Apr 2012 #17
Seems as though this is indeed a direct result of federal oversight. LanternWaste Apr 2012 #19
I read the article as the expose was done by the industry trade magazine.. Fumesucker Apr 2012 #21
Did you ProSense Apr 2012 #23
The Feds certainly did a bang up job of oversight in this case.. Fumesucker Apr 2012 #24
Couldn't they "self regulate" properly? KansDem Apr 2012 #2
Ai-yi-yi-yi-yi! That's where I go... joeybee12 Apr 2012 #3
Wait, no. All Medicare fraud is committed by slackers getting bennies they don't deserve.... Scuba Apr 2012 #6
I find it interesting that most of these scams... Frustratedlady Apr 2012 #7
I have read elsewhere years ago that Florida is the leading state for Medicare fraud. avaistheone1 Apr 2012 #8
Not a scam zipplewrath Apr 2012 #9
There's a huge difference, though gratuitous Apr 2012 #14
"Kick backs" zipplewrath Apr 2012 #27
In the example yes - but the article also states cbdo2007 Apr 2012 #22
Correct amount zipplewrath Apr 2012 #26
Damn socialized medicine! Wait. What? AtomicKitten Apr 2012 #10
I'm in a large national private insurance group SCantiGOP Apr 2012 #11
Jail time: anyone??? lsewpershad Apr 2012 #12
I'm shocked. Egalitarian Thug Apr 2012 #13
Finally LAB Work is the biggest scam out there lovuian Apr 2012 #15
so are pharmacies notadmblnd Apr 2012 #20
Our dr. office has quit Lab Corp....now I know why, perhaps. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2012 #16
Sounds like extortion to me MagickMuffin Apr 2012 #18
That would explian quaker bill Apr 2012 #25
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