Just ignore that bill
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Yesterday, for the third time, I became a cancer survivor. It's no big deal, the skin cancer on my face replaced with a big bandage.
The interesting thing is that the doctor said he wanted to do a test to determine if the cancer had spread to my head or neck. He didn't like that this cancer had been allowed to remain in place for over a year - that is between him and the other doctor.
He said that I might get a bill for $7,000 for the test. He said don't worry about it, just crumble it up and throw it away, they won't chase me for it. He says I can do this because the test was considered experimental but it should be approved by insurance companies any day now and they won't bother me for the money. I said OK because I would like to know if I have cancer in my head or neck.
It seems like an odd way to do business.
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I pray the test comes back negative!
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The inhumanity of whatever incomprehensibly complex system we have here in America for the health care market, eventually intersects with the humanity of the people implementing the system. At that point the people implementing it, often doctors rather than bean counters, will give you insight into what they know and what they can control about the payments for the human treatments they actually care about.
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Hope the test shows no more cancer, Copper.
I wish I could rip up all the medical bills we are still paying off when the Mrs. had her series of mini-strokes. And the bills I got for my MRI.
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@Copper +1 to the positive reponses from above.
@taiwan_girl said in Just ignore that bill:
@Copper +1 to the positive reponses from above.
+1 as well.
