He Went in for a Colonoscopy. The Hospital Charged $19,000 for Two.
He Went in for a Colonoscopy. The Hospital Charged $19,000 for Two.
A man in Chicago with a troubling symptom underwent a common procedure. Then he wanted to know why the hospital charged nearly three times its own cost estimate.
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itâs standard for providers to bill for two colonoscopies if they remove two or more polyps in different ways.
Billing for 2 procedures instead of 1 could conceivably explain why the bill was twice as high as the estimate. It could not possibly explain why the bill was three times as high as the estimate.
Because someone's gotta line their pockets. That's why
Of course. It's just that they haven't even come up with a plausible excuse.
In my experience with US insurance companies.. They don't have to. They do what they do and expect zero recourse.
I wasn't suggesting that they do. I was commenting on the fact that they don't even have the decency to pretend.
And I was further clarifying and expanding on that sentiment...