All I know is that I've been paying my hospital bills... in cash. What I don't do is pay what the first bill says I should. I ask for a discount, and they give me one.
My initial hospital bill was a quaint arbitrary number for $43,000....$5,000 a day for just the room I stayed. The discount was almost 75%, which meant I paid $11,000 in the end... *if* I paid within 10 days...so I did. If I wasn't able to pay within 10 days, I would be responsible for paying the full $43,000 in monthly payments. If I would have had insurance, the insurance companies would have probably paid at least 50% of that. The doctors bills and other services were separate from the hospital bill... the doctors like making arbitrary numbers also, but in their case, they won't give you a discount unless you share your total financial background with them, and if you have more than $7,500 in liquid assets, you have to pay the whole amount. One doctor I have to pay $2,000 for what amounts to be about 2 hours work, of which the tests he did were a total waste of time and showed nothing useful. I'm now looking forward to my new hospital bill...it should initially be somewhere around $50,000. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
