Reply #23: Every time I went to my first series of chemotherapy...

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... I was required to pay $500 up front each time. What was I supposed to do, walk out the door?

When the 10-page bills came in, that $500 was never listed.

I called the billing company and asked the manager why not.

He gave me the most asinine excuse that I've ever heard in my life: "It takes up too much paper". (This is a bill that had line items for .10 bags of saline).

I also questioned the doctor's office manager, but never got an explanation. I suspected that they were balance billing (not legal in MA) but couldn't prove it.

They stopped doing it after I made those inquiries. I could also be completely wrong about the whole thing.

(Let me also say that my doc is terrific, and his staff is wonderful --- and I'm doing well).