Many surprise medical bills are now illegal
It will be interesting to see if this changes anything on my next visit to the hospital. When my child was born we asked in advance both insurance and the hospital for a cost estimate. No one could provide one. We were then proceeded to be sent bills from various parties for over a year. We had no idea if we were to pay it, insurance was to pay it, if we had already paid it and there was an accounting error. Each bill was as vague as the next with only the company name to go off of. The whole thing is/was perposterous. Can the hospital not act as a mediary and collate all of the charges on a single line itemed bill? Because that is how everything else in the world works.From what I can gather.there is some sinister game hospitals and medical insurance play, but you would think that, oh, I don’t know, it would save time and money for them both to just come up with some agreed upon pricing and save some administrator overhead.