Comments on: Cut Health Care Costs: Check For Billing Errors http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/cut-health-care-costs-check-for-billing-errors.html personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:04:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: The Sarcasticynic http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/cut-health-care-costs-check-for-billing-errors.html/comment-page-1#comment-54107 The Sarcasticynic Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:17:07 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/cut-health-care-costs-check-for-billing-errors.html#comment-54107 Well, the great thing is that at least fifty percent of the errors favor the patient. http://sardonicynic.blogspot.com/2006/09/two-die-so-one-might-live.html Well, the great thing is that at least fifty percent of the errors favor the patient.

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]]> By: andy http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/cut-health-care-costs-check-for-billing-errors.html/comment-page-1#comment-54055 andy Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:59:25 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/cut-health-care-costs-check-for-billing-errors.html#comment-54055 We got a bill in November for a visit my wife paid to her doctor in APRIL when we suspected she was pregnant (she was, now she's not, and I got one hell of a Christmas present :) ). This bill was four pages long, amounted to almost $200 that we're expected to pay out of pocket, and strangest of all, lists what appears to be the same test over TWO DOZEN times, for the same amount of money each time. Now, I'm fairly sure that it's a test related to her pregnancy test, but there's got to be something wrong there. And if I have to pay for part of that test out of pocket, so be it - but I'm not paying for the same test 2 dozen times on the same day. Still trying to get it straightened out with the doctor's office. I wasn't allowed to talk to them about it due to HIPAA, nor was my wife's mother allowed - and she works in that doctor's office, again due to HIPAA (not allowed to talk to a person in the same office, about a patient of that office), so we had to sign some release forms just to start the conversation. We got a bill in November for a visit my wife paid to her doctor in APRIL when we suspected she was pregnant (she was, now she’s not, and I got one hell of a Christmas present :) ). This bill was four pages long, amounted to almost $200 that we’re expected to pay out of pocket, and strangest of all, lists what appears to be the same test over TWO DOZEN times, for the same amount of money each time.

Now, I’m fairly sure that it’s a test related to her pregnancy test, but there’s got to be something wrong there. And if I have to pay for part of that test out of pocket, so be it – but I’m not paying for the same test 2 dozen times on the same day.

Still trying to get it straightened out with the doctor’s office. I wasn’t allowed to talk to them about it due to HIPAA, nor was my wife’s mother allowed – and she works in that doctor’s office, again due to HIPAA (not allowed to talk to a person in the same office, about a patient of that office), so we had to sign some release forms just to start the conversation.

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