To keep the facade of 'health care' from collapsing for as long as possible..................
Medicare aka government minimal care? Without secondary medical care plans, we would all be broke. Many doctors refuse Medicare patients because Medicare takes forever to pay and they pay nothing. I’ve seen bills of $700 and Medicare paid $10. Really!
Then there’s the game of “contracted amount.” A colonoscopy is billed at $5,000 and you see that $500 was paid. What is that all about? The hospital and doctor “write it off their taxes as a loss?” How many billions are being “written off tax liability” of physicians, clinics, and hospitals because they’re charging ten times more than doctors and hospitals get back from Medicare.
I was sent a physical therapy bill years ago that wasn’t supposed to come to me. The PT office billed $75 or more for a tech to put a heating pad on my neck for 10 minutes. The contracted amount was some very small part of that amount like $10. It’s a billing game that no one talks about or exposes. I’m sure everyone has seen EOB’s and saw the amount billed and what was really paid. Another game is the elderly seeing the shortfall and thinking they have to pay it.
Big Parma making lots of $$$ and who else?
Statins
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