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Mashup Score: 4Patient Underwent One Surgery but Was Billed for Two. Even After Being Sued, She Refused To Pay. - KFF Health News - 8 month(s) ago
A collection agency sought court authority to garnish a patient’s wages to pay a disputed surgery bill. But after the patient showed up in court to argue the bill was bogus, the judge declined to let the bill collector seize her money.
Source: kffhealthnews.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
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Mashup Score: 4Patient Underwent One Surgery but Was Billed for Two. Even After Being Sued, She Refused To Pay. - KFF Health News - 9 month(s) ago
A collection agency sought court authority to garnish a patient’s wages to pay a disputed surgery bill. But after the patient showed up in court to argue the bill was bogus, the judge declined to let the bill collector seize her money.
Source: kffhealthnews.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet-
NEW: “I just got stonewalled so badly. They treated me like an idiot,” a patient says of a surgery center billing department that wouldn’t listen to her explanation of why her bill was bogus. KFF Health News-@NPR #BilloftheMonth, reported by @tonyleys. ⤵️ https://t.co/iqolkwXXRB
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Mashup Score: 4Patient Underwent One Surgery but Was Billed for Two. Even After Being Sued, She Refused To Pay. - KFF Health News - 9 month(s) ago
A collection agency sought court authority to garnish a patient’s wages to pay a disputed surgery bill. But after the patient showed up in court to argue the bill was bogus, the judge declined to let the bill collector seize her money.
Source: kffhealthnews.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet-
NEW: “I just got stonewalled so badly. They treated me like an idiot,” a patient says of a surgery center billing department that wouldn’t listen to her explanation of why her bill was bogus. KFF Health News-@NPR #BilloftheMonth, reported by @tonyleys. ⤵️ https://t.co/iqolkwXXRB
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Mashup Score: 4Patient Underwent One Surgery but Was Billed for Two. Even After Being Sued, She Refused To Pay. - KFF Health News - 9 month(s) ago
A collection agency sought court authority to garnish a patient’s wages to pay a disputed surgery bill. But after the patient showed up in court to argue the bill was bogus, the judge declined to let the bill collector seize her money.
Source: kffhealthnews.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet-
NEW: “I just got stonewalled so badly. They treated me like an idiot,” a patient says of a surgery center billing department that wouldn’t listen to her explanation of why her bill was bogus. KFF Health News-@NPR #BilloftheMonth, reported by @tonyleys. ⤵️ https://t.co/iqolkwXXRB
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Mashup Score: 4Patient Underwent One Surgery but Was Billed for Two. Even After Being Sued, She Refused To Pay. - KFF Health News - 9 month(s) ago
A collection agency sought court authority to garnish a patient’s wages to pay a disputed surgery bill. But after the patient showed up in court to argue the bill was bogus, the judge declined to let the bill collector seize her money.
Source: kffhealthnews.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet-
NEW: “I just got stonewalled so badly. They treated me like an idiot,” a patient says of a surgery center billing department that wouldn’t listen to her explanation of why her bill was bogus. KFF Health News-@NPR #BilloftheMonth, reported by @tonyleys. ⤵️ https://t.co/iqolkwXXRB
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Mashup Score: 6Her Hearing Implant Was Preapproved. Nonetheless, She Got $139,000 Bills for Months. - KFF Health News - 9 month(s) ago
Even when patients double-check that their care is covered by insurance, health providers often send them bills as they haggle with insurers over reimbursement, which can last for months. It’s stressful and annoying — but legal.
Source: kffhealthnews.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet-
NEW: “I almost had a heart attack when I opened the bill.” Her insurer approved her hearing implant — then she kept getting bills for $139,000. Read the latest KFF Health News - @NPR #BilloftheMonth, reported by @RosenthalHealth. ⤵️ https://t.co/PswfoImRyR
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Mashup Score: 5
Suffering stomach pain, a Dallas man visited his local urgent care clinic — or so he thought, until he got a bill 10 times what he’d expected.
Source: kffhealthnews.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet-
NEW: It’s called an Urgent Care Emergency Center — is it an urgent care center or an emergency room? The difference can be tough to discern and cost patients hundreds of dollars. Read the latest KFF Health News-@NPR #BilloftheMonth, by @renurayasam.⤵️ https://t.co/0H0pSvK7JL
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Mashup Score: 6Her Hearing Implant Was Preapproved. Nonetheless, She Got $139,000 Bills for Months. - KFF Health News - 10 month(s) ago
Even when patients double-check that their care is covered by insurance, health providers often send them bills as they haggle with insurers over reimbursement, which can last for months. It’s stressful and annoying — but legal.
Source: kffhealthnews.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet-
NEW: “I almost had a heart attack when I opened the bill.” Her insurer approved her hearing implant — then she kept getting bills for $139,000. Read the latest KFF Health News - @NPR #BilloftheMonth, reported by @RosenthalHealth. ⤵️ https://t.co/PswfoImRyR
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Mashup Score: 6Her Hearing Implant Was Preapproved. Nonetheless, She Got $139,000 Bills for Months. - KFF Health News - 10 month(s) ago
Even when patients double-check that their care is covered by insurance, health providers often send them bills as they haggle with insurers over reimbursement, which can last for months. It’s stressful and annoying — but legal.
Source: kffhealthnews.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet-
NEW: “I almost had a heart attack when I opened the bill.” Her insurer approved her hearing implant — then she kept getting bills for $139,000. Read the latest KFF Health News - @NPR #BilloftheMonth, reported by @RosenthalHealth. ⤵️ https://t.co/PswfoImRyR
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Mashup Score: 5
Suffering stomach pain, a Dallas man visited his local urgent care clinic — or so he thought, until he got a bill 10 times what he’d expected.
Source: kffhealthnews.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet-
NEW: It’s called an Urgent Care Emergency Center — is it an urgent care center or an emergency room? The difference can be tough to discern and cost patients hundreds of dollars. Read the latest KFF Health News-@NPR #BilloftheMonth, by @renurayasam.⤵️ https://t.co/0H0pSvK7JL
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NEW: “I just got stonewalled so badly. They treated me like an idiot,” a patient says of a surgery center billing department that wouldn’t listen to her explanation of why her bill was bogus. KFF Health News-@NPR #BilloftheMonth, reported by @tonyleys. ⤵️ https://t.co/iqolkwXXRB