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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   3049 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 1, 2023

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Negotiating prices for services is not "extracting" money unexpectedly, being unaware of what the insurance will cover is not "surprising fucking over," the insurance knows what they will pay for and we often don't and have to fight them, even for clearly necessary stuff.

Hospitals can't know (as in knowing and changing your decisions as a result is illegal, specifically for emergency medicine) what the insurance is going to do, the agency is extremely limited.

In response to this sort of fuckery places have literally closed their EDs. Hospitals are going out of business at record rates and posting record lows for profit. Meanwhile the insurance companies are posting record highs.

What are they supposed to do? Break the law and not treat the guy? Just not get paid and then go out of business? Stop victim blaming.

And that's completely ignoring the other layer of this which I can't verify with the details OP provided, but the PA is probably owned by a third party - a private equity group that does enjoy the revenue associated with skull fucking patients and everyone in healthcare would love for that behavior to get banned but we don't have any control...

I don't know how the fuck the scummy companies won the psyop where they blame everything on doctors who have zero administrative or financial control.

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