Vox
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- Jun 17, 2013
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Assuming that the hospital bill is real ( I have my doubts, but could be wrong) the hospital has grossly over charged. With 44 thousand already paid, the hospital and those involved have already made a nice profit. The rest of the bill will probably go away if the word "lawer" is mentioned in a few phone calls.
you know that hospitals charge on average 6.000% more to cover the freeloaders?
and no insurance ever pays that much. Neither do those who negotiate paying out of pocket.
the whole ordeal in reality costs about 12K( that is what the insurance will pay)
from which the patient pays about 2K deductible if he has insurance.
it was the deal until 2014.
Now the deductible can be 12K - and you will have to pay it out of pocket before any insurance ever pays a dime. Plus you shed the monthly premiums for NOTHING.
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