If you have an HMO, the only time you’re liable for out-of-network bills is if you need a emergency treatment - but then you will covered as soon as transfer can be arranged to an HMO hospital.
If you have an HMO, the only time you’re liable for out-of-network bills is if you need a emergency treatment - but then you will covered as soon as transfer can be arranged to an HMO hospital.
HMO should get a referral. PPO need to know who they are seeing. The report just explains why we need another bureaucrat to help us with our stuff.
You need to be really careful. I saw an interview with one woman who had some kind of abdominal surgery. Six weeks after the surgery, she got this huge bill. It turned out that the assisting surgeon and one of the surgical nurses were out of network. That’s not something you’d think to ask when you’re on the operating table.
Gee, this Owebowma care thing is great ain’t it!?
Yep. They just walk by the room your in and send you a bill.
In March I went to the ER to get x-rays as a precaution when I hurt my hand. Yesterday I get a “bill”... for the balance not covered by my health insurance and nowhere on this thing is there a date that the amount is due by.
Just yesterday,billed for visit14 month’s ago.
CBS doing their best to keep pushing Single Payer down the track...