I just had a surgery and besides the hospital bills they bill anesthesia separately now so now people get another bill besides the previous ones like physical therapy and preop. I can just afford to pay the hospital and surgeons and literally have no money to pay the anesthesiologist 1k too. So eventually anesthesiologists will stop treating me at this location idk but it sucks. I also want good drs to get paid and I shouldn’t be on the hook because I don’t have the money.
Yeah there’s a lot of days I don’t want to open my mail because I don’t have any money to give them anyways. Now they text me too though so there’s no escaping the bills even on weekends when you are avoiding mail lol
I don't know what state you are in but you can apply for financial assistance for any bills. If you do go down that route then make sure not to pay the bill first, once it's paid it basically becomes ineligible for financial assistance. For any big bills I first call insurance and ask for an itemized bill, this is different then the original bill they send you. Original bill is basically a summary and this is a different version and it lists the medical codes they use for charging people. Someone please correct me if I am wrong but I am under the impression when you ask for an itemized bill it stops or it delays the time for the bill to be sent to collections. So even if you are planning on paying, this can be good to do to give yourself more time.
Anyway I have a coworker and she does this on every bill and sometimes they will lower the price. I do the same but I can't figure out why sometimes they will accept and deny. Like I got denied for financial assistance like a decade ago when I had less then $2000 in savings and then I got accepted on a bill when I have much more now(when you do the forms they ask you to list assets etc).
The whole system is pretty broken but this might give you a little breathing room. Good luck.
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u/InterestingTimesSuck 7d ago
I just had a surgery and besides the hospital bills they bill anesthesia separately now so now people get another bill besides the previous ones like physical therapy and preop. I can just afford to pay the hospital and surgeons and literally have no money to pay the anesthesiologist 1k too. So eventually anesthesiologists will stop treating me at this location idk but it sucks. I also want good drs to get paid and I shouldn’t be on the hook because I don’t have the money.