If you click on this , it takes you to the 60 Minutes article on the disparity between what uninsured patients and what insurance companies pay.
This documents that the uninsured are overcharged routinely, and nothing indicates that locally it is any different.
Obviously, if you are local, responsible for your bills, uninsured, and have the option, your regular provider, the Salas Clinic, and then the hospital ER are, in order of increasing cost, your most viable alternatives. With the advent of liens against everyone, one does have to consider the consequences of ill health.
No, most patients do not think that healthcare is free, but pricing it 3-4x that which the insurance companies pay is a bit excessive.
When a test is ordered, you ought to be asking: Is this necessary, or is it just to cover the doc's butt, and who is paying for it, me, or him?
No comments:
Post a Comment